A large portion of the collection comprises newspaper and magazine articles. He collects everything relating to the gay and lesbian Jewish experience. Wearing a T-shirt reading Shveign=Teut (Yiddish for "Silence Equals Death"), Abush animatedly displays a Hebrew-language flyer announing Tel Aviv's Gay Pride Week. He has invested some $20,000 of his own money and thousands of hours assembling his collection and database. He worked as a systems analyst until 1990, when complications from AIDS forced him to go on disability. The JGLBTA represents Abush's four-year quest to reconcile his identity as a gay Jew - that is, a member of a little-understood pariah faction - within a minority that has suffered centuries of persecution.Ībush, 43, is the son of a Holocaust survivor. This unique, if esoteric, 7,000-artifact collection is housed in Johnny Abush's studio apartment in downtown Toronto's gay district.
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