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Knights said she wanted the online exhibition to show how debates played out through people doing the work of organizing the events.
“Women had a more intersectional approach and were developing a sense around queer consciousness instead of lesbian and gay,” Knights said.
“Most of the women’s voices are directed to those issues and it impacted what they wanted for the games.”
The remaining third of the video tapes that haven’t been digitized focus mainly on sports.
“It’s one of the reason why athletics couldn’t be a huge part of it,” she said.
“We didn’t want to include footage of people who hadn’t given consent to be singled out in that way.”
Knights said she’ll continue going through the raw video. In many cases, labels don’t tell the full story of what’s inside.
“Over time, my hope is that other people will be interested in working with this material,” she said.
“It would certainly be the kind of thing the right filmmaker could take and turn it into something new.”
The exhibition Celebration ’90 Gay Games III and Cultural Festival is one of more than 500 Canadian online projects at virtualmuseum.ca.
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By the Numbers:
1982 and 1986: Gay Games I and II in San Francisco
1990, Aug 4 to 11: Celebration ’90 Gay Games III and Cultural Festival in Vancouver
7,000: number of athletes
1,460: athletes from Canada (726 from B.C.)
800: athletes in volleyball, the most popular sport
143: hours of raw unedited video in the archive used to make online exhibition Celebration ’90
20: years videotapes remained in boxes
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