Photograph depicts Dr. Brenda Hattie (centre) signing a marriage certificate, flanked by (left to right) Reverend Darlene Young, Young's partner Mun Lei Kai, and the two unnamed Australian women who were married.
Photograph depicts Dr. Brenda Hattie (centre) signing a marriage certificate, flanked by (left to right) Reverend Darlene Young, Young's partner Mun Lei Kai, and the two unnamed Australian women who were married.
Photograph depicts Mun Lei Kai (centre) signing a marriage certificate, flanked by (left to right) her partner Reverend Darlene Young, Dr. Brenda Hattie, and the two unnamed Australian women who were married.
Photograph depicts Mun Lei Kai(centre) signing a marriage certificate, flanked by (left to right) her partner Reverend Darlene Young, Dr. Brenda Hattie, and the two unnamed Australian women who were married.
Photograph depicts Reverend Darlene Young (centre) signing a marriage certificate, flanked by (left to right) Dr. Brenda Hattie, Young's partner Mun Lei Kai, and the two unnamed Australian women who were married.
Item is onepink pin in the shape of a triangle that reads "First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out- because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me", a quote from Pastor Martin Niemoller who was taken by Nazis.
Item is a portrait of Donald (Don) Higgins painted by Robert Doyle. Don Higgins (1943-1989) was an openly gay professor of political science and public administration with a keen interest in municipal government structures, education and city development and planning. Robert Doyle was an openly gay designer, costume design professor and painter. The portrait was painted from a photograph.
Item is a portrait of Paul Boulais painted by Nancy Unsworth in 2007 or 2008 from a photograph taken around 1996. Paul Boulais was an HIV+ gay man and was the first person to receive same-sex Canadian Pension Plan benefits after the death of his partner Grant MacNeil.
Item is a poster for "LBGTQ Rights in Canada" presentation at CBUSU Women's Centre on November 25, 2013. Panel guests include Gerard Veldhoven, Stevi Gerrior and Jesiah MacDonald.
Item is a hand-painted cotton banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for the 1995 Halifax Pride parade featuring pink text outlined in black that reads "PRIDE '95" flanked by two black circles filled with pink triangles.
Item consists of the 1993 Gaezette Literary Supplement, Punoqun, which was issued as part of the July-August 1993 issue of Gaezette. Includes short fiction and poetry from Michael Charland, Paula Arsenault, Kevin Crombie, Elaine Parke, James Shedden, C.J. Foster, Adam J. Gillis, and Brian W. Beazley.
Item consists of the 1994 Gaezette Literary Supplement, Punoqun, which was issued as part of the July-August 1994 issue of Gaezette. Includes short fiction and poetry from Shirley Lambert, Michael Charland, Gordon Bradley, Lisa Comeau, James Shedden, Nancy Gosse, and R.D. Little.
Item consists of the Summer 1996 issue of Punoqun : The Wayves Literary Supplement, laid into the July-August 1996 issue of Wayves. This is the fourth Punoqun number. Includes contributions from Cindy Illsley, Bob Mellor, Thomas Andrew Ross, Seamus Sullivan, Art Fisher, Amity Loyce, Joe Blades, Donna Ross, and Kevin Crombie.
Item consists of the fifth annual issue of Punoqun: The 1997 Wayves Literary Supplement, an insert in the September 1997 issue of Wayves Magazine. Includes literary contributions from Michael Hayes, Stephen Gass, Mary Andrés, L.D. Little, Julie Mathews, Francis-Xavier Anopuechi, Cindy Illsley, Jason Woodburn, an Art Fisher.
Item consists of the Summer 1995 issue of Punoqun : The Wayves Literary Supplement, laid into the July-August 1995 issue of Wayves. Includes contributions from Chelsea Winston-Elliott, L. Comeau, Rupert Kent, Gregory Morris, L.D. Little, Matthew York, Art Fisher, Janne Cleveland, Douglas Shears, and Stacie Juan Croucher.
