Len & Cub: A Queer History

Join us at AX as we welcome Len & Cub: A Queer History to the gallery. This photography exhibition features the photographs of Leonard “Len” Keith (1891-1950) and Joseph “Cub” Coates (1899-1965), two young men living in the rural village of Havelock, New Brunswick, who formed a relationship during the early 20th century.

While keeping their sexual identities and attraction for each other hidden, they privately captured their relationship via photographs – one of the oldest surviving photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes. These remarkable archival images are as important socially and historically as they are unique in the photographic canon of eastern Canada.

The curators of this exhibition, Meredith J. Batt and Dusty Green, have also written a book featuring the photographs in the exhibition and will attend the launch to read from their book and sign copies.
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Credit:
Cub with his arm around Len at the Cranberry Lake Camp,
Queens County, NB, c.1916-18.
Collection of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
PANB P27-MS101-140

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