Fifty years after the Stonewall riots solidified the LGBTQI2S liberation movement in the USA and the first steps towards decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada, our rights are being threatened, and the basic responsibilities of education and care are being removed. Governments are implementing numerous cuts, including to mental health funding, public health, and education, disturbing changes that disproportionally affect the more marginalized among us. Gay-Straight Alliances in the public-school system are being eradicated, our communities are being oppressively policed, and far-right extremist groups and hate crime rates are growing across the country.

How can we—as activists, advocates, feminists, queers, antiracist leaders—safeguard the next generation from rampant transphobia, erasure, and exposure? The exhibition placed the lives of LGBTQI2S individuals at the forefront to express a vigilant commitment to supporting a dialogue to address these key questions. The Gender Conspiracy tackles the precarity of queerness and addresses the emotional well-being of these vulnerable communities through photographs and moving images.