2024 PRIDE EXHIBIT

The Sidney Museum is excited to present a new exhibit, Reading Between the Lines for Local Queer History.

With a focus on LGBT+ history in and around the Saanich Peninsula, it will remain on display throughout June, Pride Month, after which it will become a part of the permanent upstairs gallery.

The exhibit features information about local Queer history, AIDS on the Saanich Peninsula, David Tuff’s film Are We Going Backwards?, and items from The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria.

The Sidney Museum will also be participating in multiple Pride Events happening in June, including the Sidney Pride Festival, June 15 from 11:00am-3:00pm and Pride Night at the Sidney Street Market, June 13 from 5:30pm-8:30pm.

The Sidney Museum booth will feature a pop-up version of its 2024 Pride exhibit, plus interactive activities such as button making and blackout poetry to engage with local Pride history. Visitors will be able to make a free button inspired by the pride buttons on display at the Sidney Museum or come up with designs or their own! The blackout poetry activity will allow visitors to take homophobic and problematic articles from The Review’s archives and reclaim them through poetry.