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Spazito

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Thu Mar 24, 2022, 02:27 PM Mar 2022

Thunderhead design chosen for LGBTQ2+ National Monument in Ottawa [View all]

A plant-filled park with a gleaming thunderhead sculpture at its centre is the winning design for a new monument in Ottawa to honour victims of its LGBTQ2+ purge.

The LGBTQ2+ National Monument is a partnership between the federal government and the LGBT Purge Fund, which was created from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the government.

That lawsuit was born from the so-called gay purge, during which several thousand Canadians were investigated, sanctioned and sometimes fired between 1955 and 1996.

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Besides the central thunderhead sculpture, the winning design has a path tracing LGBTQ2+ history and a healing circle made of stones chosen by two-spirit Indigenous elders. (Team Wreford/Government of Canada)

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lgbtq2-national-monument-ottawa-design-winner-1.6395859

***This is stunning, imo.

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