{"id":28042,"date":"2026-08-25T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=28042"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:44:24","slug":"drag-the-archives-featured-in-ottawa-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2026\/drag-the-archives-featured-in-ottawa-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Drag the Archives Featured in Ottawa Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Drag the Archives Featured in Ottawa Citizen\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following excerpt is from the Ottawa Citizen article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/exhibit-drag-queer-history\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/exhibit-drag-queer-history\">New exhibit explores decades of Ottawa drag and queer history: Carleton University students dug through decades of photographs to uncover some of the people and stories behind Ottawa\u2019s queer history<\/a>,&#8221; by Michael McBean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Morgan Mercury looks at photographs of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/entertainment\/local-arts\/artin-avaznia-underground-pride\" target=\"_blank\">queer people<\/a>&nbsp;in Ottawa from decades ago, the faces may be different and the clothes belong to another era, but something feels familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis would have been us,\u201d the local drag performer said. \u201cIt\u2019s us living here in the \u201970s, \u201980s and \u201990s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/capital-pride-new-parade-route\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Pride week<\/a>&nbsp;unfolds, that connection between generations is at the heart of Drag The Archive: Photographs of Gender Queer Performance, an exhibition at the City of Ottawa Archives in Nepean that brings photographs of drag, queer nightlife and political activism out of archival collections and onto gallery walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developed by Carleton University students in partnership with the City of Ottawa\u2019s equity team and archives, the exhibition draws primarily from the collections of photographer and queer-rights activist Philip Hannan and Paul \u201cPeaches Latour\u201d Fournier, one of Ottawa\u2019s best-known drag performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Opp, a Carleton history professor, said the project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from the Ottawa Citizen article, &#8220;New exhibit explores decades of Ottawa drag and queer history: Carleton University students dug through decades of photographs to uncover some of the people and stories behind Ottawa\u2019s queer history,&#8221; by Michael McBean. When Morgan Mercury looks at photographs of&nbsp;queer people&nbsp;in Ottawa from decades ago, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":27375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28043,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042\/revisions\/28043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}