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."
File contains one copy of the 1996 services and support guide, promotional materials for the Positive Connections Project, promotional materials and a list of questions regarding the May 2004 skills building Ceilidh, and one program for the 2004 AIDS vigil.
File contains four sexual health surveys distributed by AIDS Nova Scotia (then Metro Area Committee on AIDS), related notes and correspondence, and one report detailing the results of a sexual health survey completed in Quebec.
Item is a copy of Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in Nova Scotia — A Brief to the Government of Nova Scotia, revised in March 1989. The brief was produced by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] to encourage legal protections for LGBTQ+ persons.
File contains materials related to the activities of the AIDS Nova Scotia speakers bureau. Includes speakers bureau updates, agendas and minutes, internal reports, pamphlets, reference and training materials for speakers, memos, and correspondence.
File contains one pin produced for the Spearhead bear weekend, 1994, hosted by Spearhead leather and denim social club. Pin has a black background with a red spearhead and illustration of a bear in the centre, and red text along the bottom that reads "SPEARHEAD BEAR WEEKEND '94".
File contains two copies of a pamphlet containing information about the visual artist Steve Walker, whose work features romantic images of gay men; one poster featuring images of Walker's art; and one page of accompanying correspondence.
File contains the Stonewall Tavern Annual Humanitarian Award, a plaque presented to Ross Boutilier in recognition of the achievement and struggle that enriches our community and our lives.
File contains one Strategies for the 90s discussion document dated August 1990, one page of education objectives, and one copy of the August 1989 strategic work plans for senior staff.
File contains one issue of the comic book Super-poz, written and illustrated by Daniel-Claude Gendron and translated from French to English by George Paradalis.
File contains one English and one French copy of the Canadian Human Right's Commission's Survey of public opinion on human rights, one draft copy of the Gay Alliance for Equality brief to Canadian Human Right's Commission, and one pamphlet regarding filing a complaint with the Canadian Human Right's Commission.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement in the Syphilis Network health initiative via its participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Materials include one pamphlet published by Capital Health entitled Syphilis: A Primer for Physicians, meeting agendas, correspondence, notes; and one copy of the proposed action plan.
File contains three pins featuring a photo of Nova Scotian Member of Parliament Roseanne Skoke in the centre of a red circle with a line through it, surrounded by the words "THANK YOU FOR NOT SKOKING".
File contains two pins. The pins feature a photo of Nova Scotian Member of Parliament Roseanne Skoke in the centre of a red circle with a line through it, surrounded by the words "THANK YOU FOR NOT SKOKING".
Item consists of the "hog heaven award" given to Don Murchy at the Round-Up '93 "What's in those overalls?" held at the Spearhead, September 3-6, 1993, Toronto, Ontario.
File contains five pages of notes and correspondence related to Brian Mombourquette's facilitation of The Queer Bible: A Workshop on Homosexuality and the Bible.
File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at the Halifax launch of the film The Burning Times on November 3, 1990. Songs on the recording performed prior to the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; River of Birds ; Witch's Song. Songs performed after the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Under the Full Moon ; Burning Times ; Earth Air Fire Water Return.
File contains one cassette tape recording of a performance of the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Performances include a performance at the Montreal Massacre Memorial at Eye Level Gallery in Halifax on December 6, 1990. Songs performed at the memorial are There Comes a Time ; December 6 ; You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; Fight Back ; Keep on Walking Forward. Tape also contains recordings of a performance at the Furies Solstice Party on December 17, 1990. Songs performed are Russian Learning Lullaby ; Three Wise Women.
File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at Truro Women's and Children's Dance on October 25, 1991. Songs performed are You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; December 6 : Russian Learning Lullaby ; Living Flame ; Hippopotamus Song ; Look to the Women ; Women All Around the World. Cassette also features a recording of the song Burning Times from a performance at the Stepping Stone Benefit on October 30, 1991. Cassette also includes recordings with no specified performance date. These recordings are of the songs We All Come From the Mother ; Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Women All Around the World.
File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at an International Women's Day event on March 8, 1991. Recording features a warm up or equipment test and the songs Come Justice Come ; Russian Learning Lullaby ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; The Spelling Songs ; There Comes a Time. Cassette also features recording of a performance at the Women's Health Education Network Conference in Truro on May 4, 1991. Songs performed are Temagami Song ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; Period Piece ; Best Woman ; We Always Had Sense ; There Comes a Time.
File contains one cassette tape recording of rehearsals for the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Tape contains recordings of the songs Come Justice Come ; Keep on Walking Forward ; Witch's Song ; and Burning Times. Recordings were made on June 23 and July 2, 1990.
File includes photographs of a 1992 meet up between TightRope members and members of the Portland Harbourmasters in Portland, Maine. Photographs feature bondage play and equipment.
File contains records produced as part of the operations of the TightRope Leather Brotherhood. Materials include notices and flyers for events put on by TightRope and the Toronto-based leather club Spearhead between 1992 and 2001; administrative and financial records including general meeting and elections notices from 2000 and 2001, meeting minutes dated 2000 to 2002, budgets and financial statements produced between 1993 and 2000, and a certificate of incorporation from 1997; correspondence regarding TightRope operations dated 2000 to 2003; and dungeon rules and hanky codes
Subseries contains materials documenting the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, a men's leather club established in Halifax in the early 1990s, incorporated in 1997, and disbanded in 2007. Subseries contains administrative and financial records, planning and promotional materials, correspondence, printouts from TightRope's website, and photographs of TightRope members and events.
Series contains apparel collected and worn by Don Murchy as part of his involvement with the TightRope leather brotherhood and the Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather competition.
File contains notices and flyers for events held by the TightRope Leather Brotherhood, as well as newsletters, correspondence, and event notices from other leather organizations. Materials include copies of the newsletters Smoke Signals, produced by Poconowarriors in Pennsylvania, and The Brand, produced by the Chicago Hellfire Club; correspondence, pamphlets, and registration forms from Spearhead Leather/Denim Social club in Toronto; event notices and registration forms from East Coast Bears, based in Fredricton; correspondence from the Ottawa Knights; one registration form for the Toone Towne event held by Firedancers Texas ; and notices for TightRope events held between May and August, 1999.
File contains one photograph of TightRope members. From left to Right : Russell Mitchell; Tony Caruso; Mike Sangster; Paul Davison; Don Murchy; Glenn Degeer; Al Stewart; Billy ?; Bruce Eisner.
File contains two badges worn by TightRope members. One badge is printed with text saying "TIGHTROPE MEMBERSHIP", and the other is printed with text that reads "Membership Chairman—TIGHTROPE".