For this year's Spark Your Pride conference, which had its fourth annual event on Tuesday in Saskatoon, organizers wanted to bring together older LGBTQ2S+ people from all across Saskatchewan to tell their life stories, to ensure they aren't lost to history.
A lot of people stayed, Korinek said. And they stayed purposely because they wanted to be here.
She said there have been generations of queer people in the area. They didn t just endure. They carved out lives, they made space, they were engaged in activism. They tried to change these cities for the better, for other queer people. And they have largely been forgotten from history. So it s really important to put them back in.
Korinek is also the author of Prairie Fairies, which documents queer histories in western Canada from 1930 to 1985(Submitted by Valerie Korinek)
Korinek is also the author of