<p>A team made up of Winnipeg-based artists has won a competition to design a memorial to 9,000 employees of the Canadian government who were singled out in the “LGBT Purge” that took place between the 1950s and mid-1990s. The team is made up consultants such as Architect Public City, artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan and indigenous adviser Albert McLeod. Their design was inspired by a “thunderhead” cloud, symbolising the “strength, activism and hope” of Canada’s LGBTQ2+ communities.</p><p>The cloud will take the form of a sculpture clad in mirrored tiles situated in a park in Ottawa. There will also be a stage, a “healing circle”, a garden, an orchard and a path documenting the history of the country’s LGBTQ2+ community.</p><p>The purge involved systematic discrimination against, and harassment of, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian federal services.</p>
<p>A team made up of Winnipeg-based artists has won a competition to design a memorial to 9,000 employees of the Canadian government who were singled out in the “LGBT Purge” that took place between the 1950s and mid-1990s. The team is made up consultants such as Architect Public City, artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan and indigenous adviser Albert McLeod. Their design was inspired by a “thunderhead” cloud, symbolising the “strength, activism and hope” of Canada’s LGBTQ2+ communities.</p><p>The cloud will take the form of a sculpture clad in mirrored tiles situated in a park in Ottawa. There will also be a stage, a “healing circle”, a garden, an orchard and a path documenting the history of the country’s LGBTQ2+ community.</p><p>The purge involved systematic discrimination against, and harassment of, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian federal services.</p>
