LGBTQ2+ National Memorial
Year
2021
Status
Unbuilt
Size
63,453 sq ft
Location
Ottawa, Canada
Partners
Department of Canadian Heritage,
The LGBT Purge Fund
Collaborators
Stephen Andrews,
Mosaika,
Tillett Lighting Design Associates
Project Team
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Jha D Amazi, Marisol Andrade Muñoz, Sierra Bainbridge, Angela Blume, Adriana Contarino Henry, Erin Huang, Christopher Kroner, Cristoforo Magliozzi, Michael Murphy, Julie Rhoad, Annie Wang
Project Team
Kelly Alvarez Doran, Jha D Amazi, Marisol Andrade Muñoz, Sierra Bainbridge, Angela Blume, Adriana Contarino Henry, Erin Huang, Christopher Kroner, Cristoforo Magliozzi, Michael Murphy, Julie Rhoad, Annie Wang
The Glass Bowl Memorial, created for Canada’s national LGBTQ2+ monument competition, honors victims of the LGBT Purge with a transformative, amphitheater-like space for reflection, storytelling, and collective healing.
Between the 1950s and the mid-1990s—a period now known as the LGBT Purge—LGBTQ2+ members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and the Federal Public Service were systematically harassed, interrogated, arrested, abused, and discriminated against.
In 2021, the Department of Canadian Heritage, in partnership with the Government of Canada, launched a competition to design and build a national monument commemorating the historic discrimination against LGBTQ2+ people in Canada.
