May 2025
Client: Canada Post

As part of a collaboration with Kelly Small and Intents & Purposes, Canada Post commissioned me to illustrate a set of stamps commemorating places significant to Canada’s 2SLGBTQIA+ history.

Full colour illustrations, iconography, first day of issue cancellation marks, typography and additional colour palettes were developed, with the final suite of illustrations and assets deployed across stamps, social media channels, an out of home campaign, limited edition merchandise and more.

About the Places of Pride
Considered Calgary’s first gay bar, Club Carousel opened in 1970. Its innovative members-only policy created a space where patrons could feel safe from homophobia, repression and intimidation.

Toronto’s Hanlan’s Point Beach hosted the 1971 Gay Day Picnic, considered the first major gathering of queer people in Canada and an early example of what we now know as Pride.

A 1977 police raid at Montréal gay bar Truxx led to the adoption of the first law in Canada prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The term “Two-Spirit” was introduced at the 3rd North American Native Gay & Lesbian Gathering near Beausejour, Manitoba, in 1990, marking a pivotal moment for queer Indigenous people in North America.