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BCGLA Photograph Digitization Wraps Up

Posted on July 26, 2021June 14, 2022 by Kira Baker

Happy Pride Week Vancouver!

The Archives is excited to share that we have finished digitizing all of the photographs in the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives (BCGLA) collection. Founded by Ron Dutton in 1976, the BCGLA is an extensive collection of periodicals, subject files, photographs and audiovisual records documenting the LGBTQ2+ community here in Vancouver and British Columbia. After decades of caring for the collection and providing research access from his home, the BCGLA was donated to the Archives in 2018.

End of parade route in Alexandra Park, 1981 or 1982. Detail from AM1675-S4-F43-: 2018-020.7499
End of parade route in Alexandra Park, 1981 or 1982. Detail from AM1675-S4-F43-: 2018-020.7499

Later that year, the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS) awarded the Archives $71,338 to digitize the collection’s posters, audiovisual works and a majority of the photographs. In 2020, the Friends of the City of Vancouver Archives also contributed funds to digitize the remaining photographic prints and negatives. In total, we’ve uploaded over 12,000 digital items that can be viewed remotely from our online database!

This most recent batch of uploaded images largely document Vancouver Pride Festivals from 1981 to 2014.

Many of these photographs, as with the rest of the BCGLA images, don’t identify all (or any) of the people in the shot. In 2019, the Archives launched a BCGLA Photo Identification Project to help gather information that we can add to a photograph’s online description. The goal of the project is to enhance discoverability and research access to this collection. If you recognize any people, places, events or dates we welcome your input: please fill out our online form or email us directly at archives@vancouver.ca

Here are some Pride highlights. Recognize anyone?

Pride 2004. Detail from: AM1675-S4-F64-: 2018-9047
Pride 2004. Detail from: AM1675-S4-F64-: 2018-9047
Group from Vancouver Leather Alliance walking in the 1988 Pride Parade. Reference code: AM1675-S4-F49-: 2018-020.7650
Group from Vancouver Leather Alliance walking in the 1988 Pride Parade. Reference code: AM1675-S4-F49-: 2018-020.7650
Pride 1987. Reference code: AM1675-S4-F48-: 2018-020.7602
Pride 1987. Reference code: AM1675-S4-F48-: 2018-020.7602

Also included in this last batch of digitized images are photographs from 16 albums showing the life of Robert Pogue and his career as drag queen Adrian Alexandria de Vander Vogue. Arranged as a subseries within the BCGLA photographs, there are over a thousand photographs dating from 1960-1992. These albums were donated to the BCGLA by Sandy Lambert, who inherited the albums after Pogue passed away in 1992.

Portrait of Robert Pogue, ca. 1980. Detail from: AM1675-S4-1-: 2018-020.9543.6
Portrait of Adrien Alexandria de Vander Vogue, 1978. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1: 2018-020.9414
Portrait of Adrian Alexandria de Vander Vogue, 1978. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1: 2018-020.9414
Contact sheet showing portraits of Adrien Alexandria de Vander Vogue on roller skates, 1978. Photographer George Jang. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1-: 2018-020.9416
Contact sheet showing portraits of Adrian Alexandria de Vander Vogue on roller skates, 1978. Photographer George Jang. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1-: 2018-020.9416
Portrait of Adrien Alexandria de Vander Vogue, 1983. Jam Photographers. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1-: 2018-020.9642
Portrait of Adrian Alexandria de Vander Vogue, 1983. Jam Photographers. Reference code: AM1675-S4-1-: 2018-020.9642

While several staff members were involved in this digitization project, including our amazing digitization technician, Mandy Roddick, we wanted to give a special shout out to archivist Kristy Waller. Over the past few years, Kristy created the descriptions for all of the digitized items in the BCGLA collection. She has recently moved on from the Archives and we thank her and wish her well!

Posted in DigitizationTagged BCGLA, digitization, Friends of the Archives, photographs, Pride

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