On the Bus: Tour and Zine Launch

Hop on the bus for guided tours exploring Montreal’s queer history, featuring special guests and Richard “Bugs” Burnett. Then join us for the zine launch and celebrate On The Bus, a new podcast from the 2026 “Storytelling and Social Justice” COHDS-FAS Summer Institute.

There will be three tour departures throughout the day: 

12:30 PM —  Free guided visit to Active Grieving: The Aesthetic Activism of ACT UP Montréal with René LeBoeuf

 2:45 PM — Bus tour with Richard “Bugs” Burnett

Departure from Concordia Hall Building (Mackay St & Maisonneuve Blvd W.)

Zine launch & On The Bus Podcast Celebration at Centre Skol- 6:30 – 8pm

372 Saint-Catherine St. W, 4th floor of the Belgo Building, #444

Registration is FREE and open to all! See you there

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We’d like to thank Florent To Lay, SKOL’s artistic director, Dustin Ariel Segura-Suarez, Coordinateur de la librairie et des activités publiques, Martine Fidèle, Public Development & Engagement Coordinator, and Victoria Carrasco, SKOL’s team and Kama La Mackerel, artist of the HOMEMADE exhibition.

The team would like to thank Montreal journalist Richard “Bugs” Burnett for joining this year’s seminar. For more of Richard’s reporting and research, please see Richard’s “Historic Montréal LGBT Milestones” and “Queer Walking Tour of Montreal“.

Our bus tour of Montreal’s queer public history was made possible with the support of Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science & funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC-CRSH.

Thanks also to Concordia’s Department of History, Hexagram, the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture & Technology and LePARC, Concordia’s Performing Arts Research Cluster.