File contains one copy of the zine Killing dad. Volume contains graphic illustrations of a sexual and sometimes violent nature collaged with photographs and text.
Fonds contains materials collected by Halifax-based AIDS activist Larry Baxter. Materials in fonds document Baxter's involvement or interactions with a variety of Nova Scotian AIDS-related organizations, including Churchmembers Assembled to Respond to AIDS [CARAS], AIDS Nova Scotia [ANS], and the Nova Scotia Persons with AIDS Coalition. These materials include administrative and financial records, internal and external reports, memos and correspondence, proposals and planning materials, workshop materials, and reference materials. Fonds also contains Baxter's collection of news clippings covering a broad range of LGBT and AIDS-related issues, and his collection of pamphlets regarding AIDS-related issues and concerns.
File contains one cream coloured swallow-tailed gonfalon flag with two lavender stripes running diagonally across. Flag was used in demonstrations and marches organized by the Gay and Lesbian Association.
File contains leather community events calendars and schedules covering events in both Nova Scotia, across Canada and the United States, and some European events. Materials include one schedule for the Mr. Atlantic Canada (M.A.C.) Leather 2003 contest weekend, held October 4-6, 2002; one calendar produced by the TightRope brotherhood featuring both TightRope gatherings and other leather community events across Canada, the United States, and Europe from 1994-1995; and two copies of the Hot Boots calendar for 2002-2003.
Series contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement with the Halifax-based TightRope leather brotherhood, which was established in the early 1990s, incorporated in 1997, and disbanded in 2007. Series also contains materials related to the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] organization, which operated between 1999-2010, and the leather community more broadly. Materials include TightRope administrative and financial records, correspondence, and promotional materials; event cards, flyers, posters, programs, and certificates of participation for TightRope events, MACLeather contests, and leather events across Canada and the United States; photographs of TightRope meet-ups, MACLeather contests, and other leather community events; web print-outs; issues of the Phalia newsletter published by Spearhead leather and denim club in Toronto; erotic gear catalogues; and one copy of the 2002 Men of Pumpjack calendar.
File contains bylaws and policies from various leather groups and organizations in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Documents include Mister Leatherman Toronto Policies and Judges Handbook, National Leather Contest Rules and Requirements and the Official Contestant Packet, Logistic notes, Bylaws from the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, and the Constitution and Bylaws of the Ottawa Knights.
File contains one white banner produced 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" and two interlocking venus symbols painted in overlapping black and pink text.
File contains mail-out materials produced by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] advocating for the inclusion of protections relating to sexual orientation in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. These protections were successfully added to the Act in 1991.
File contains pamphlets produced by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] advocating for the inclusion of protections relating to sexual orientation in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. These protections were successfully added to the Act in 1991.
File contains three copies of the script for the short play Jeopardy, written and performed by members of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS]. The play was performed at a demonstration advocating for the addition of legal protections based on sexual orientation under the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. These changes were eventually enacted in 1991.
File contains meeting minutes from Lesbian Gay Rights Nova Scotia (LGRNS) dating from 1987 - 1990. File also contains committee member roles and contact information.
Series contains materials related to the operations of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project, a community support group founded in Halifax in 1993. The Youth Project is a community space that provides free counselling, leadership opportunities, and other supports for members of the LGBTQ+ community under the age of 25. Materials include retreat planning materials, budgets, meeting notes, educational resources, reports, policies and procedures documents, correspondence, and clippings.
File contains two copies of the information sheet for the 2001 Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project winter retreat, one year-end financial report, correspondence, and notes.
Collection contains oral history recordings and transcripts collected as part of the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive's Lesbian Oral History Project [LOHP]. LOHP was a project funded by the Department of Communties, Culture, and Heritage's Strategic Development Initiative to supplement available archival materials related to LGBT seniors in Nova Scotia.
File contains three copies of a letter from Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project to Mr. Kevin Chapman, Director of Health Policy and Economics for Doctors Nova Scotia in which the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project argues for provincial coverages for transgender healthcare. Letter is dated April 12, 2010.
File contains materials relating to the Halifax Rainbow Action Project. Materials include letters of intent from Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, AIDS Coalition Nova Scotia, and Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project; one full copy and two partial copies of amendments to the Halifax Rainbow Health Project partnership agreement with the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; one draft copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Inclusion Program outline; correspondence dated 2004-2005; one Halifax Rainbow Health Project budget dated March 31, 2004; two copies of a Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting agenda dated March 30, 2004; notes; and one information packet for the 2004 Many Faces Diverse Voices conference, put on by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition.
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.
File contains posters for LGBT events in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.. File contains one poster for an AIDS Vigil held at Grand Parade in Halifax; one poster advertising viewings of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Gorsebrook School in Halifax from 1990-11-30 to 1990-12-3; one poster for a vigil commemorating the one year anniversary of the Polytechnique Massacre held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on 1990-12-6; one poster for the Black and Blue Party hosted by Bad Boy Club Montreal in October, 1994; one poster for the We're Funny That Way in Toronto during April, 1990; one poster for the 1989 Seattle Queen City Cruise; and one poster for National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights held 1987-10-11.
File contains posters for films featuring LGBT subject matter. Films include the drama Longtime companion (1989), directed by Norman Rene; the documentary Forbidden love : the unashamed stories of lesbian lives (1992), directed by Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie; and the documentary Out : stories of lesbian and gay youth (1993), directed by David Adkin.
File contains reports relating to LGBT health care advocacy projects. Materials include event flyers; one copy of the “2005 Community Health Plan” by the Halifax Peninsula Community Health Board; a list of appendices for the 2006 Final Report by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; one draft copy of “Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Health Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health”; copies of “Improved Access to Care Final Project Reports” and “Improved Access to Care 2005 Project reporting guidelines” reports by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; and copies of the “Improved Access to Care 2005 Project” report by the Halifax Rainbow Health Coalition.
File contains one copy of the 2005 Halifax Regional Health Project report Improving Access to Primary Health Care in the Rainbow Community, one copy of the 2009 discussion paper Links Between the LGBT Community and Injury by the Nova Scotia Department of Health, and one pamphlet for parents of LGBT youth produced by the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement in various healthcare initiatives, including the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project. Materials include one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project's report Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community; one blank copy of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Survey Anonymous Questionnaire for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS; correspondence regarding Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and Spiritual Care and AIDS project dated 2005; objectives for the Improving Access to Care 2005 project report; three copies of the report Health and Wellness in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Two-Spirit Communities, published April, 2005 by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; one speaker information for Bob Fougere's participation in the Momentum 2005 health conference; three copies of training notes for the workshop "An Introduction to the Rainbow Community", held October 11, 2005; one map of Capital Health districts; and notes.
Series contains pins and other apparel produced for LGBT events such as Halifax pride, or featuring pro-LGBT messages. Items in this series were collected and worn by members of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS].
File contains one business card for Bob Fougere; three different sets of definitions of LGBTQ terminology; presentation notes; and correspondence between Bob Fougere and Merle Veinot regarding deaths resulting from homophobia, dated May 30th, 2003.
File contains two sets of LGBT definitions, one developed by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and one from the Centre for Disease Control's Healthy People 2010 initiative. File also contains a press release from the government of Nova Scotia dated February 11, 2005 regarding provincial health initiatives.
Item is a list of Nova Scotia provincial ministers and their staff, used by members of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] for lobbying purposes.
File contains lists of materials needed for GayLine operations, and notes relating to GayLine's change of locations in 1987 and general operations, and correspondence regarding the 1986 budget proposal, and correspondence between Daniel Mackay and Pam Steele regarding GayLine operations dated 1986.
Fonds contains graphic materials collected by Lynn Murphy through her association with the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) of Nova Scotia, and participation in organizing Halifax Pride marches and parades, in addition to other LGBT initiatives in Halifax. Fond contains one series of posters, banners, and flags produced or collected by GALA for use in Pride marches and parades, as well as other political demonstrations, GALA meetings, and dances, or relating to event held at Rumours bar. Fonds also contains posters for LGBT-related events in Halifax, posters for LGBT films, posters encouraging safe-sex practices and political activism, as well as Pride Guide mockups from 1996 and 1998.
File contains one leather vest adorned with pins from various LGBT and leather community events. The leather patches on the back, which read "Mr Atlantic Leather 99", were made from the sash awarded to Don Murchy for winning the M.A.C. Leather competition in 1999. File also contains one t-shirt from the 2004 M.A.C. Leather competition.
Series contains duplicate copies of magazines, periodicals, newsletters, and zines from the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Series primarily contains issues of Gaezette, Wayves, the Wayves literary supplement Punoqun, as well as zines.
File contains a list of gay and lesbian owned and operated bed and breakfasts, compiled by the owners of the Centre Town/Ville Bed and Breakfast and accompanying correspondence. This list features businesses that have chosen to take part in an informal business association called the Maritime Rainbow Connection.
File contains a list of all members of the executive of the Gay Alliance for Equality [GAE] from 1985-1988, including positions and approximate terms. File also contains a first draft of Christians Assembled to Respond to AIDS (CARAS) "Brief to the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS".
File contains four VHS tapes containing media coverage of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] and their work to protect sexual orientation under the Human Rights Act in Nova Scotia. Media coverage also includes LGRNS opposition to Barkhat Khokhar, a member of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission who expressed homophobic and misogynistic views. Footage from these tapes has been copied onto a DVD-R disc which is also located in this file.
