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Alan B. Stone Collection
At the time of his death in 1992, Alan Stone had acquired a solid reputation as a physique
photographer. From his beginnings in the 1950s, his fame quickly became international and
his work was published in Lachine, in collaboration with a New York publishing house.
At this point in the cataloguing process, the fonds contains at least 30,000 negatives,
3,000 slides, 1,500 colour photographs and approximately 100 assorted documents.
As well at the male physique photographs, there are also many photos of street scenes in Montréal
at various points over the years, of many professional and amateur sporting events and finally
many personal photos. This collection has been presented to the public in three distinct
but related expositions which trace the work of this noteworthy Montréal photographer
(See our Exibitions section for more informations
Click here for more information on Allan B. Stone
L'Androgyne Collection
From 1975 to 1982, l'Androgyne, or Androgyny, the first gay and lesbian bookstore in Montréal,
was managed by a collective before becoming a private business. The archives of the
Androgyne collective have been given to the Québec Gay Archives and contain papers and
correspondence relating to the bookstore, press clippings, bibliographies, daily journals
(which are one of the best sources of information on the rapid development of the gay and
lesbian community of that era), minutes of meetings and various printed materials.
Bernard Courte Collection
Everyone who worked in the gay and lesbian community in the 1980s remembers Bernard Courte,
journalist for Le Berdache, the magazine of the Association pour les droits des gais et lesbiennes
du Québec (ADGLQ). He was also one of the founding members and then Editor-in-Chief of the magazine
Sortie. Bernard Courte collaborated with many community organization, gave many conferences, and
contributed to many newspapers and magazines. He was one of the first in Montréal to truly understand
the importance of AIDS and its impact upon gay people. A friend of the Québec Gay Archives since
their creation, Bernard Courte understood the importance of preserving our collective past and,
before leaving Montréal in 1986, left us all his documents concerning his involvement in the gay
community. He remained active in the defence of gay and lesbian rights until his untimely death
from AIDS in 1991. The Bernard Courte Collection provide a most valuable testimony to the
development of the gay community and gay media of the 1980s
Ken Morrison Collection
Ken Morrison has worked since 1985 in many of the organizations created in response to the
AIDS crisis. He worked at CSAM (Comité Sida-Aide Montréal) and at Séro-Zéro among others, and he
participated in many conferences and research projects on AIDS at the provincial, federal and
international levels. In addition, he was coordinator of the cultural programme of the Fifth
International Conference on AIDS, held in Montréal in the summer of 1989
As well as much of the internal documentation of CSAM, he gave to the Québec Gay Archives
a great many reports from international conferences and colloquia on AIDS. In addition,
he donated a large collection of posters on AIDS prevention which represent some sixty
countries, several works of arts and a book which he wrote in collaboration with Alan
Klusacek: A Leap in the Dark, Montréal: Véhicule Presse (1989).
The FLH (Front de libération homosexuel) Collection
The Québec Gay Archives are very proud to hold the log book of the Front de libération
homosexuel (the first openly gay and lesbian organization in Montréal), as well as a
copy of a video tape produced in 1972 by the Audio-visual Centre of the University of
Montréal, where several members of the FLH discuss their lives and their movement. The
collection also includes photocopies of minutes of meetings, correspondence and other official
documents of this, the first gay and lesbian organization in Québec. The Québec Gay
Archives held a special event in March of 1996 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the creation of the FLH.
ADGQ Collection
The Association pour les droits des gais au Québec (ADGQ, then ADGLQ - Association pour
les droits des gais et des lesbiennes du Québec) was in the forefront of the Montréal gay
and lesbian movement in the decade from 1977 to 1987, a period when the homosexual minority
was evolving from a status of enforced obscurity and marginality to that of a community
recognized by the media, the public and by governments. As a true "umbrella" organization,
the ADGQ worked in almost all domains of gay and lesbian political, social and cultural
activity. At the time of its dissolution in 1988, the group asked that its rich collection
of periodicals, its administrative archives and its voluminous documentation be conserved
by the Québec Gay Archives.
The collection includes the correspondence and official minutes of the organization and its
various committees as well as many publications, photos, sound recordings and posters.
The files include printed materials from many of the other community groups (sporting
groups, the association of gay deaf people, religious groups, parents of gays, etc.)
which existed at the same period. Further printed materials include information concerning
social services for gays and lesbians, the commission on sexual education, gay community
programming on radio and cable stations, and the police raids on saunas.
Other collections
RAGLAM et La Coalition: Réunion des associations gaies et lesbiennes à Montréal, which later
simply became La Coalition. The organizational ancestors of the current Table de concertation
des gais et lesbiennes du Grand Montréal.
Naches: The first gay Jewish group in Montréal: newsletters, minutes, newsletters of several other
gay Jewish groups throughout the world.
GHAP: The Groupe homosexuel d'action politique, active from 1975 to 1976
GMA: The Gay Montréal Association, active from 1973 to 1975.
Integrity: The Anglican gay group, active from 1975 to 1980.
La ville en rose: The colloquium on gay and lesbian studies held at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1992.
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Archives gaies du Québec
4067, boulevard St-Laurent, bureau 202
Montréal, Québec H2W 1Y7 Canada
(514) 287-9987
info@agq.qc.ca
The Archives are open to the public Thursday evenings, from 7:30 to 9:30, or by appointment
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