2am eternal: a decade of queer nightlife posters + comics

Eric Kostiuk Williams

Secret Acres

Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community, from basements to the backstage to the back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022, along with short comics and notes from the author, the organizers, the performers, and the crowd, 2AM Eternal makes a scene — until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown, before the manic, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face, wall-to-wall living.