Item consists of the seventh issue (September) of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. Issue includes an editorial about the United Church's decision to allow LGBTQ members to become ministers, a profile of Narcotics Anonymous, other contributions from Don Murchy, J.J. Lyon, "Horatio Beeswanger", and other regular features and LGBTQ events listings.
Item consists of the sixth issue (July) of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. Issue includes Barend Kamperman's recap of 1988 Pride Week, a review of Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart" performed at Rumours social club, and other regular news updates and LGBTQ events listings.
Item consists of the fifth issue (June) of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. Includes features about the 1988 Halifax Pride celebrations by Alan Stewart, an article on the PWA (Persons With AIDS) Coalition, a "Horatio Beeswanger" humorous interview, events listings, and other regular features.
Item consists of the fourth issue (May) of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. Issue includes an editorial on police interactions, an article on a women's motorcycle festival, an article about religion by Terry Parker, events listings and other regular features.
Item consists of the third issue of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. This is the first issue under its new format. Issue includes an interview of a doctor about sexually transmitted disesases by Barend Kamperman, humorous commentary by "Horatio Beeswanger", the music playlist for the month at the club Rumours, and other editorial comments and event listings.
Item consists of the tenth issue (December) of the 1988 run of the Gay Alliance for Equality newsletter, Gaezette. Issue includes an editorial about a new AIDS residence on Brunswick Street in Halifax, an article on gay life in Japan, other articles by Ken Belanger and Dan Hart, among other regular news updates and events listings.
Subseries contains duplicate issues of Gaezette, a publication which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It was published by a non-profit collective between 1984-1995, when it changed its name to Wayves. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives.
File contains draft articles and writing submissions, notes, correspondence, and graphic material used in the production of the Wayves literary supplement Punaqun.
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.
Series contains materials collected as part of Stewart's LGBT advocacy at St John's United Church in Halifax, and his subsequent involvement with Affirm United, an advocacy organization founded in 1982 that supports LGBTQ members of the United Church of Canada. Stewart was involved in the process of achieving Affirmed status for St John's United Church through the Affirming Ministries Program. Series contains articles, essays, and pamphlets regarding homosexuality and religion; informational documents associated with Affirm United and the Affirmation Congregation Program; manuals and other reference materials relating to the operation of Affirmed congregations; correspondence; issues of Consensus, the Affirm United newsletter; and issues of Open Hands, a journal published by Affirmations: United Methodists for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
File contains one facsimile of the Memorandum of Association of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project society sent May 31, 2005; one pamphlet for the LGB Youth Project; one invoice for the purchase and set-up of a new server; one copy of the April/May 2005 issue of Young Gay America; 1 clipping from the Chronicle Herald dated June 29, 2005; one promotional flyer for various Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project events over the summer of 2005; meeting minutes and agendas from May, 2005; one copy of terms of reference for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Youth Board; one flyer for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project's Queer Prom '05; one copy of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Policy and Procedure Manual, approved June 2004.
