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Black Wedge tour poster: Winnipeg

A poster advertising the Winnipeg stop on the Black Wedge tour.

Tags: 1987, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, Chameleon Club, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Norman Nawrocki, Peter Plate, Rhythm Activism, Winnipeg

Program for Hardcore

The program for Gwendolyn's performance piece Hardcore: A Sex Worker Examines the Morality of the the Anti-Porn Movement.

Tags: 1990, Brunswick Avenue, Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP), Feminism, Fringe Festival, Gwendolyn, Police Brutality, Porn, Safe Sex, Sex Work, Sex Worker Rights, The Annex, Theatre

Club Magic

Half-price admission pass for "Black Magic" Wednesdays at Club Magic, with DJ Ivan Palmer.

Tags: 1988, Black Magic, Club Magic, Dance Clubs, Ivan Palmer, St. Joseph Street

The Zone

Invitation to The Zone's preview party.

Tags: 1991, Adelaide Street West, Dance Clubs, The Zone

Suspect Video

Membership card for Suspect Video and Culture.

Tags: 1991, Cinema, Markham Street, Mirvish Village, Suspect Video, Video

The 360

Membership card for Club 360, aka Ukrainian Branch no. 360 of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Tags: 1992, 360 Club, Music Venues, Queen Street West, Royal Canadian Legion, Ukrainian culture

By Any Means Necessary

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Nicole Tanguay and Mourning Sickness perform "By Any Means Necessary" live at the Apocalypse Club.

Tags: 1991, A.C.T. for Disarmament, Apocalypse Club, College Street, Indigenous resistance, Indigenous solidarity, LGBTQ, Mourning Sickness, Nicole Tanguay, Two-Spirit

Cells

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Mourning Sickness performs "Cells" live at the Apocalypse Club.

Tags: 1991, A.C.T. for Disarmament, Apocalypse Club, CKLN, College Street, Gay Bell, Indigenous resistance, Indigenous solidarity, LGBTQ, Mary Bennett, Mourning Sickness, Prison Justice, Queeradio, Queerculture, Seneca Nation, Tracey TieF, Two-Spirit

The Rubber Rap

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Mourning Sickness performs "The Rubber Rap" live at the Apocalypse Club.

Tags: 1991, A.C.T. for Disarmament, AIDS Activism, Apocalypse Club, College Street, Gulf War, Kathedral B, Kenn Quayle, Michael Smith, Mourning Sickness, Safe Sex, Steal This Book, The Fuckheads, Tracey TieF

Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James poster

Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness and Bryan James show at the Rivoli. This was a partial reunion of the Black Wedge tour lineup from the previous year. The Black Wedge tour was an anti-authoritarian response to Britain's earlier Red Wedge, and began…

Tags: 1988, Anarchism, Black Wedge, Bryan James, David Lester, Feminism, Jean Smith, Mecca Normal, Mourning Sickness, Queen Street West, Rivoli

Random Order, Steal This Book and Mourning Sickness

Poster for the Random Order, Steal This Book and Mourning Sickness show at the Cameron House.

Tags: 1989, Cameron House, Mourning Sickness, Queen Street West, Random Order, Steal This Book

Varoshi Fame, Mourning Sickness and Blank Crowd show

Toronto avant garde/industrial bands Varoshi Fame, Mourning Sickness and Blank Crowd at the Rivoli.

Tags: 1988, Blank Crowd, Industrial, Mourning Sickness, Postpunk, Queen Street West, Rivoli, Varoshi Fame

Person Livid With AIDS

Michael Smith's one-man play about a day in the life of a gay man living with AIDS. With musical support by Steal This Book and a cameo appearance by Mourning Sickness.

Tags: 1990, Bathurst Street, Buddies in Bad Times, Factory Theatre, Michael Smith, Mourning Sickness, Queerculture, Radical Faeries, Steal This Book