Canadian Museum of Human Rights to recognize country’s “LGBT purge” with new exhibit
A new exhibition, Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge, opens at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg this week, shedding light on a dark historical chapter.
Deeply rooted prejudices combined with Cold War concerns led to a series of what was then called “anti-gay purges” between the early 1950s and 1990s, resulting in mass discrimination.
Canadians suspected of “homosexuality” were expelled from the civil
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