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Wilde ’82 Launch
- Date
- March 21, 2024
- Time
- 6:00 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT
- Website
- https://cdh.rula.info/newsletter/
Thursday March 21
TMU Library (LIB), 4th floor
Wilde ’82 Launch
In 1982, Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) hosted Wilde ’82, the first international conference bringing together scholars active in the emerging field of Gay and Lesbian Studies. The conference, organized by the Canadian Gay Archives, also commemorated the 100th anniversary of gay icon Oscar Wilde’s 1882 North American lecture tour.
The Wilde ’82 project is an online open access reconstruction of this important event, documenting social and political issues facing Toronto’s queer community in the 1980s and bringing together historical documents from the TMU Archives, The ArQuives, and personal collections.