The Queer History Project responds to the growing need of Vancouver's queer community to record our lives for future generations. Our aim is to create and share a lasting body of work that celebrates the dynamic experiences of queer life and culture - past, present and future.

Queer History Project Website

Volunteer and community-driven, this interactive website explores and reimagines Vancouver's queer history. The site includes text, photos, video, audio, animation, annotated links and multimedia pieces. This is an opportunity to showcase what was funny, brave, caring, painful, motivating, subversive, routine, ignored, gorgeous and arousing in our histories.

 QueerHistoryProject.com is now live!

Queer History Project Commissioning

We are commissioning films that record and tell queer experiences from the past to ensure our stories are captured and told for generations to come. We envision the project will produce a lasting body of work that will enable our stories to take their rightful place in Canadian history.

These films, each 20 minutes in length, will premiere at the annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival the year in which they are produced. We plan for the body of work to screen together in 2011 as part of a larger exhibition coinciding with Vancouver's 125th birthday. We are planning a community engagement component which will also be part of this exhibition and will be in the form of an art installation that documents a wide range of anecdotes and stories from our community.

The commissions so far:
• The Love That Won't Shut Up, co-directed by Ivan E. Coyote and Veda Hille (Presented at the 2007 Vancouver Queer Film Festival)
• Rex vs. Singh, co-directed by John Greyson, Richard Fung, and Ali Kazimi (Presented at the 2008 Vancouver Queer Film Festival)
• The Portside, co-directed by Aerlyn Weissman and Daphne Marlatt (Presented at the 2009 Vancouver Queer Film Festival)