Lougheed House showcases LGBTQ+ history
Posted Mar 30, 2019 10:09 am.
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Calgary’s Lougheed House has opened a new exhibit called Nine Lives-Changing the Notion of Femininity Through Time.
Lougheed House Curator Caroline Loewen tells 660 NEWS the exhibit features 12 photos that explore the idea of femininity.
The photos are of six women and six drag queens who put together their own outfits, that represented their view of the concept.
“They then shot different images of them throughout the house exploring different ideas of what they feel like it means to be feminine, look feminine and express themselves as feminine,” Loewen said.
This exhibit will be up at the house for five weeks and closes on April 28th.
The Nine Lives exhibit is a combination between the Big Kitty Crew, the Calgary Queer Arts Society and the Lougheed House.
It will be followed by a second exhibit called Outliers-Queer History in Calgary.
Lowen explains that the Outliers exhibit takes a look at a part of the Lougheed House history that most people don’t know about and that hasn’t been talked about before.
“The area around the house, specifically the park, was known as the fruit loop within the gay community. This was because this was Calgary’s gay prostitution stroll, so this is where men would come to pick up other men,” Lowen said.
According to Lowen the reason for this exhibit was to see the story from the other side. She said that they wanted to hear the queer community’s opinion on this.
“We wanted to hear what they thought of the park and neighborhood, and how they had used the neighborhood in the communities and whether it was a positive or negative experience.”
Lowen adds that they thought it was an important story to tell. The Outliers exhibit runs from May 8th to June 9th.
Both exhibits are a part of a larger project at the house called Roar – Exploring Queer History and Gender Identity.