
Annie Ohana: My thoughts on the Gay Purge Memorial
The LGBT Purge Fund unveiled Thunderhead as a permanent public monument recognizing discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada.

The LGBT Purge Fund unveiled Thunderhead as a permanent public monument recognizing discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada.

Fortunately, the south coast of B.C. is home to many people making extraordinary efforts to forge connections across cultural divides.

George is manager of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s Sacred Trust initiative, which fought the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

Anjali Appadurai was keynote speaker at the event commemorating Nek Chand, who included statues from recycled materials in the Rock Garden.




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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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