| Curating Queer Leadership: Lessons from the LGBT Purge Exhibition The Canadian Human Rights Museum 85 Israel Asper Way Winnipeg, MB 4:45 – 6:00 PM |
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| This workshop explores how queer communities have transformed experiences of persecution into collective action, public memory, and institutional change. Drawing on Love in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s LGBT Purge, participants will examine the activism that dismantled the Purge—from ground-level resistance to coalition-building and legal challenges. The workshop also considers the exhibition itself as a case study in queer leadership: recovering suppressed histories, sharing authority with survivors and 2SLGBTQ+ community members, navigating institutional constraints, and translating oppressive government records into empowering public history. Through guided discussion, participants will consider what these experiences reveal about leadership in relation to storytelling, stewardship, and workplace change. Presented by: Dr. Scott de Groot |
