Winnipeg Free Press
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Shawna Dempsey (left) and Lorri Millan, outside their warehouse studio in north Winnipeg, where they have been making ground-breaking art for 30 years and recently received a $30,000 award in recognition of the milestone. Winnipeg One Gay City! proclaims bus-shelter advertisements designed more than 20 years ago by artists Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey to promote queer visibility in Winnipeg. Winnipeg One Gay City! proclaims bus-shelter advertisements designed more than 20 years ago by artists Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey to promote queer visibility in Winnipeg.
The posters were banned back then. Fast-forward to today: they are being displayed in eight transit shelters as part of University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery s One Queer City exhibit.