Legislating Love: The Everett Klippert Story
The award-winning play, launched as a book. Legislating Love features local playwright, Natalie Meisner’s emotionally engaging script with director’s notes from Sage Theatre’s Jason Mehmel and essays from the Calgary Gay History Project’s Kevin Allen and former project researcher Tereasa Maillie.
Why I’m Celebrating 1969 And Calgary’s Gay Rights Anti-Hero
by Kevin Allen
Sprawl Calgary commissioned work for the 50th anniversary of Bill C-150 in Canada.
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by Gordon Sombrowski
Acclaimed short story author pens a tale about pandemics: touching on both Covid and AIDS in Calgary.
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by Nevena Ivanović
The University of Calgary Student Press, 1970-1980: From Anonymous Classified Ads to Gay Liberation Op-Eds to Gay Academic Union as a Part of Campus Life.
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by Kevin Allen
The United Church of Canada struggle with sexual orientation from 1965-1990: Grappling with homosexuality proved a difficult challenge for the holy institution threatening to tear the church apart.
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Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
Calgary Gay History Project researchers Nevena Ivanović and Kevin Allen contributed a chapter to the book with editor Larry Hannant called, Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary. Bucking Conservatism was produced under a creative commons license and is free to read online or download.
A blog post exploring the role of historians for Lougheed House written by Kevin Allen, former member of the Community Advisory Committee for Lougheed House Re-Imagined.
Calgary Gay History 