Series contains banners and flags created or collected by members of the Gay and Lesbian Association for use in Pride marches, GALA meetings, and other political demonstrations in Nova Scotia.
Item consists of the sixth issue of the tenth volume (July-August) of the 1993 run of the Gay and Lesbian Association newsletter, Gaezette. Issue includes an editorial about "indecent acts" at a St. John's mall written by Patrick Barnholden, personal reminiscences from Leith Chu, a recap of the "great shirtless war" at Rumours by Robin Metcalfe, a preview of the Atlantic Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual conference, photos from Pride Week collected by Lynn Murphy, a recap of Peggy's Festival of Queer Video and Film by Gary Kinsman, and other regular columns (by Ross Boutilier, Jane van Kansas, and John Balser), reviews, news updates, and event listings.
Item is banner made of a white bedsheet, with "GALA N.S." painted in large black letters above "Gay and Lesbian Association" in purple, over a background of abstract coloured swirls.
Series includes posters, banners and flags created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for various events. Series contains one subseries of posters (and negatives) for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by GALA, and another subseries of banners and flags used during Pride marches, demonstrations, and GALA meetings.
Item is a tie-dyed banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) with handwritten text in felt marker that reads: "In Memoriam—Killed by Nazis—Killed by AIDS—Killed by Halifax—QUEER BASHERS," with tombstones drawn next to each displaying those years during which members of the LGBT community were killed.
Item is a cream swallow-tailed gonfalon flag with two diagonal lavender stripes. The flag was used in demonstrations and marches organized by the Gay and Lesbian Association.
Collection contains duplicate materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in collection include posters; programs, flyers, and promotional materials; pamphlets and outreach materials; and wearable ephemera including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia. Materials in series relate to Halifax Pride and other pride celebrations, political demonstrations, Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] operations and events, Halifax Fetish Ball and Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather events, Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] meetings and operations, events held at Rumours bar, LGBT films, and other LGBT causes and events.
Collection contains records collected by Lynn Murphy through her association with the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) of Nova Scotia, and her participation in organizing Halifax Pride marches, parades and other LGBT initiatives. Records include posters, banners and flags created or collected by GALA; posters promoting LGBT-related events in Halifax and elsewhere; posters for LGBT films; posters encouraging safe-sex practices and political activism; and Pride Guide mockups from 1996 and 1998.
File contains acetate negatives of posters for events at Rumours, a bar in Halifax that was owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) from 1982 to 1995. Materials include posters for women's and men's dances, social mixers, Pride week events, stage shows, and holiday celebrations held at Rumours in 1993.
Series contains duplicate posters from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in series include posters for the Halifax Fetish Ball, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [M.A.C. Leather] contests, other LGBT events in Halifax and Montreal, LGBT films, and posters and acetate negatives of posters for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GALA].
File contains posters for events at Rumours, a bar in Halifax that was owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) from 1982 to 1995. File includes three posters for Rumours' Pride events, held from June 26 to July 1, 1993; three posters for the Easter weekend events, held April 8th and 10th, 1993; three poster for the Christmas in July event, held on 1993-07-24; and one poster for A rhapsody in blue New Year's event, held on 1992-12-31.
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.
Series contains paper posters and acetate negatives of posters for meetings, lectures, Pride events, parties, stage shows and dances, many of them held at Rumours, a Halifax bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance [GALA].
Item is a banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA), then called the Gay Alliance for Equality, for an unknown event in 1985. The banner is white fabric illustrated in the style of a Gaezette article, featuring a person standing in front of a windmill, with the headline "Send a Dyke to Holland."
Item is a hand-painted fabric banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) featuring black-and-red text that reads "STRAIGHT but NOT NARROW" over top of a pink triangle.
Item is a white banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for the 1990 Halifax Pride parade featuring the text "We are family! Lesbian and Gay Pride 1990" next to two interlocking Venus symbols over a pink triangle.
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