Bathhouse | LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory

PPOHP: The Settlement

June 23, 2021

Did you know that members of the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Settlement Committee prioritized the establishment of a transgender search policy in their settlement talks with the Toronto Police Services? This led to the first attempt to draft a trans-friendly search policy in 2005, which was donated to us by Chanelle Gallant. Check out the first draft of this policy, including Chanelle’s first edits: More of The Pussy Palace Project can be found hereMore of The […]

HIS395 Video Project: “Time Heals All Wounds?” by Alessandra Salvati

February 2, 2021

by Andy Huynh

Archiving Oral History / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities

Elspeth Brown on her LGBQT2+ Oral History class at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. The class, which focused on queer oral history method and production, had students create a short digital story based on a significant historical event from Toronto’s queer community. Professor Brown wanted me to send you along this information so that you could add it to the Collaboratory social media. This project focuses on the Bathhouse Raids in 1981, where 4 gay bathhouses […]