Remembering the Sugar Shack

When and Where

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Main Room
Glad Day Bookshop
499 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2C6

Speakers

Deb Singh
Carol Thames
OmiSoore H. Dryden
Kusha Dadui
Rees Nam

Description

What does it mean to build pleasure-centered space for QTBIPOC communities—then and now? How do we honour the labour, tensions, and joy that shaped those spaces, even when they were imperfect?

Join us for Remembering the Sugar Shack, a community-led storytelling event guided by the very organizers, volunteers, and patrons who helped shape the Sugar Shack—a sex-positive bathhouse night designed by and for queer and trans folks of colour in the early 2000s. Together, they’ll reflect on the emotional, political, and cultural legacies of these events and why their memory continues to resonate.

Come witness, remember, and dream forward—because this history still has something to teach us.

This event is free and open to the public, but space at Glad Day is limited, so RSVP is encouraged to save your spot!

Sponsors

LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives, Glad Day Bookshop