As part of a constantly changing "cultural lifestyle market", Stackt sees itself as an open space that both facilitates encounters and serves as a source of inspiration for its visitors through a wide variety of presentations.
An essential part of the presentation in Toronto was the close collaboration with The ArQuives, North America's largest gay and lesbian archive, which researched the queer history of Toronto on behalf of the Goethe-Institut, for example the traumatic Bathhouse Raids of 1981 (“our Stonewall,“ as one of the flyers from the time reads) or the internationally influential 1980s Canadian magazine Body Politic.
The exhibition makes sure to integrate and interweave Berlin, Toronto and New York references, showing how queer oppression and emancipation was “same same but different“ across continents. With reference to the so-called Hanky code, a coded method of (in a correspondingly initiated environment) making known one's own sexual preferences, Canadian content was specially marked with orange handkerchiefs (for "anything and always").
And in the same spirit of spilling out into the street and the world, all exhibition content was given away on the last day.