Sunil Gupta, “From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective” (Ryerson Image Centre)
If you’re in the neighbourhood hungry for more visual stimuli, add a visit to the photography gallery at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) to your Pride Month to-dos. Running until Aug. 6, Sunil Gupta’s personal-documentary photos traverse the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s from Montreal to New York and London, offering an insider’s perspective of a history that some may now take for granted. Gupta’s more recent works focus on his birthplace in India and his LGBTQ+ and two-spirit activism work. While you’re there, sashay over to the exhibition “Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers,” which collects images from the 1880s to the 1980s, not just of fabulous drag queens but of those who quietly defied the gender expectations of their time.