06/05/2026
The Pride buttons are out! This year, four buttons from the Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Diversity, along with one new Gay Bob design, have been selected for reissue.
The first button features Gay Bob, photographed in 2023 in the style of Burt Reynolds as the centerfold for the April 1972 Cosmopolitan Magazine. The Pride buttons are available at all University Library locations, USSU Pride Center, ASPA Office, Turning the Tide Bookstore, Wanuskewin, Saskatoon Public Library-Frances Morrison Central Library, Western Development Museum, OUT Saskatoon, West Winds Clinic, Diefenbaker Centre, Antiquities Museum and at the Pride Market on June 27th and 28th.
Figure 1 - Gay Bob - University of Saskatchewan, University Archives and Special Collections, Neil Richards Collection for Sexual and Gender Diversity, Gay Bob: the world’s first gay doll for everyone, NK4894.3 .B68 G3 1977 , Photographed in 2023, button created in 2026.
As we honour the legacy of resistance and resilience of the q***r community this Pride month, the has compiled a reading list and set up a display with the theme "Sexual Evolution, Social Revolution". Visit https://ow.ly/EVIH50Z6QEU for more information and to see the reading list.
