File contains pamphlets and resource guides; correspondence between AIDS Nova Scotia and other AIDS organizations; briefs, reports, and recommendations from other community groups; lobbying materials; press releases; news clippings; funding proposals and guidelines; one AIDS adult case report form.
File contains materials related to the operations of EGALE (formerly Equality for Gays And Lesbians Everywhere), a Canada-wide LGBT advocacy organization, dated 1987-2001. Materials include copies of the InfoEgale newsletter, press releases and correspondence regarding Egale operations and initiatives, reference materials, and news clippings related to LGBT political activism and issues in Canada.
File contains essays on homosexuality and religion and related correspondence between Bob Fougere and Richard Beis. Essays include one copy of the essay God Dave Me a Gay Son by Thomas A. Nelson, one copy of Sex: Purpose and 'Natural Law' by Richard Beis, and one copy of Same Sex Marriage: What Exactly is the Problem? [unattributed].
File contains materials relating to Bob Fougere's participation in the distribution of the First National Survey of Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in Canada in 1998. Materials include correspondence, one copy of the survey distribution kit, one copy of the media kit, and one copy of the distribution tracking form.
File contains one copy of the open letter entitled For your information – We are the men who took our shirts off last Saturday night. This letter was written by members of the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) in response to a ban on shirtless dancing for women at Rumours bar and related actions undertaken by members of GALA's board.
Subseries contains materials documenting NSRAP's research and support work related to HIV/AIDS, including the Gay Men's Health Research Project, and NSRAPS's response to Nova Scotia's Strategy for HIV/AIDS. Materials in subseries include Gay Men's Health Research Project planning and research materials, HIV/AIDS related government policy documents, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, and notes.
File contains planning materials relating to the Gay Men's Health Research Project. Materials include notes, correspondence, proposal summaries, work plans, research materials, blank questionnaires, and meeting evaluation forms.
File contains planning materials relating to the Gay Men's Health Research project. Materials include one blank copy of the project's environmental scan; one copy of the agenda for the project's first group meeting, held February 17, 2001; resources relating to research principles and gay men's health; correspondence dated 2001; one photocopy of an article from the May 17, 2001 issue of the Daily News entitled Parents search for man who vanished from bar; contact lists; workplans; and notes.
Series contains administrative records for the GayLine, established in 1972. GayLine was renamed to the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Line in 1994. Materials in this series include GayLine monthly and annual reports; call logs and templates; staff notebooks; correspondence; memos, minutes, and a certificate of incorporation relating to the name change; and notes.
Series contains materials used in the recruitment and training of GayLine volunteers. Materials include training session records and schedules; help line manuals and crisis intervention strategies; GayLine pamphlets; volunteer application forms, information sheets, and guidelines; and correspondence relating to volunteers.
Series contains reference materials used by volunteers of the GayLine. Series is divided into two subseries. The first sub-series contains reference and educational materials used by GayLine volunteers covering issues such as homosexuality and coming out, sexual heath and AIDS prevention, alcoholism and substance abuse, abuse in LGBT relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues. Materials include pamphlets, flyers, legal briefs and resources, newsletters, essays, and bibliographies. The second subseries contains reference materials relating to the operations of other helplines, as well as information about LGBT businesses and services, community groups, and events in Halifax, across Canada, and in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Oceania. Materials include advertisements and press releases, pamphlets, newsletters, flyers, information sheets, and directories.
File contains GayLine volunteer application form and information sheet for volunteers, a press release celebrating GayLine's 20th anniversary, one blank call sheet, one list of GayLines across Canada, and correspondence from a GayLine caller.
Fonds consists of Gerard Veldhoven's published writing, correspondence, and speeches. Veldhoven's writings cover subjects including same-sex marriage, LGBT parenting and families, Pride celebrations, and LGBT social issues. Fonds also contains clippings and correspondence related to Veldhoven's experience as part of the first same-sex couple to be married in Nova Scotia, as well as his activism, writing career, and honours.
File contains committee records for Halifax Pride 1997. Materials include Pride schedules, clippings featuring stories about the parade and plans for television advertisements during Pride Week, Pride logo mock-ups, notes, correspondence, agendas, contact lists, advertisements, and correspondence.
File contains committee record for Halifax Pride 1998. Materials include financial records, notes, correspondence, schedules and other planning materials, invoices, logo mock-ups, advertisements, and advertisement submission forms.
Subseries contains materials relating to NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Operating between 2004-2006, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project was formed by Capital Health to research ways of increasing access to primary care services for members of Nova Scotia's LGBTQ community. It was a joint effort between the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, and the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Project. Materials in subseries include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, project proposals, reference and planning materials, job postings, notes, and reports.
File contains materials relating to HIV/AIDS activism in Nova Scotia. Materials include copies of The Nova Scotia AIDS Survey: An Invitation Draft Report, published January, 2006. File also contains one copy of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia Evaluation 2005: Community Partners Interview Questions, as well as correspondence, notes, and the AIDS Community Action Program Regional Funding application form and guidelines.
Fonds contains materials produced by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] as part of their lobbying efforts to gain human rights protections for members of Nova Scotia's LGBTQ+ community, including correspondence, briefs, presentations, and notes. Fonds also contains correspondence, notes, and clippings regarding the establishment and operations of the Halifax chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
File contains materials relating to the Halifax Rainbow Health Project's involvement with the Joint Advisory Committee for Improving Access to Primary Care for GLBTI People In Capital Health. Materials include a job posting for the Transition Coordinator for the GLBTI Initiative, dated 2004; two draft copies of the agenda for the meeting of the Advisory Group for Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health, held May 31, 2004; one draft copy of terms of reference for the Advisory Group for Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health; notes; correspondence dated 2004; and one draft copy of a press release for the Primary Care Project.
File contains administrative records of the joint committee of the Nova Scotia Persons With AIDS Coalition [NSPWAC] and AIDS Nova Scotia [ANS], which document the union of these two groups as the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia [ACNS]. Materials include meeting agendas and minutes, planning documents, notes, and correspondence regarding joint operations and a potential organizational merge, as well as reference materials regarding similar organizational mergers.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Item is a letter written by John Marr, Public Relations Officer, outlining the Gay Alliance for Equality's activities and rationale for wanting to join forces with MOVE.
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.
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.
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 administrative records relating to the operations of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include invitation and program from the wedding of Norma Christine Cameron and Margot Whynot on February 17, 2001; meeting minutes and agendas dated 2010-2011; financial report and budgets dated 2010-2011; correspondence dated 2011; and 1 copy Board of Directors Training Manual for Churches Under 75.
File contains materials related to the Men Who Have Sex With Men working group, including project proposals, meeting minutes, correspondence and letters of support, budgets and financial documents, notes, job descriptions, reports from similar projects in the UK and Australia, and related research/publications.
File contains the Morton House Residence Committee annual report for 1989-1990, correspondence regarding utility hook ups, insurance documents, and a real estate appraisal report. File also contains two photographs of the exterior of Morton House, located in the residence committee report.
File contains materials related to Bob Fougere's speaking engagement for BUS4407: Managing Diversity, Gender, and Other Issues on November 23, 2005. Materials include one copy of the syllabus for BUS4407, related correspondence, and notes.
File contains an amendment to chapter 214 news release; clippings; memos; press release in support of including LGBT individuals in the Human Rights Legislation; pink triangle armband; correspondence; calls for donations; a list of individuals and organizations who wrote to MLA's with sending a copy to LGRNS; draft copy of an opinion article for the Halifax Herald; transcripts of an assembly debate; and a submission in respect of the Human Rights Act Bill 136.
File contains one brochure for International Women's Day 1991, various newspaper clippings about Take Back the Night March, opening of a women's centre, and letters to the editor.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project annual meetings, annual reports, and operational correspondence. Materials include a notice, agenda, and meeting minutes from the 2004 Annual General Meeting; correspondence pertaining to general operations; one clipping from the June 5th, 2004 edition of the Chronicle Herald entitled Pride parade marshal 'exactly who we were looking for'; one copy of the 2004 year-end financial report; notes; one copy of the 2004 Trans Committee report; meeting minutes and agenda for the April 2004 Board of Directors meeting; one scanned copy of the 2003 report Renewing HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men by Barry D. Adam; one receipt for Bob Fougere's payment of party dues to the federal Progressive Conservative Party; one registration package for the 2003 Sexual Assault Legal Education Conference; one Egale Lobbying Kit for Equal Marriage; one copy of the May 3, 2004 issue of Maclean's Magazine; and four pamphlets regarding LGBT health and social issues.
File contains planning materials for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's Big Gay Wedding Anniversary Gala Dinner, held on September 24th, 2005. Materials include one event program, one list of silent auction donors, one business cards for silent auction donors, correspondence regarding event planning, ticket invoices, and notes.
File contains one letter from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Halifax, thanking the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project for a donation; one letter from the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project to Tom Michael of Video Difference requesting donations for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's 2006 fundraising gala; one letter from Derrick Martin detailing his donation to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project annual gala, and accompanying business cards.
File contains one copy of The Coast's 2006 Pride Guide; one full page from the Opinions section of the Chronicle Herald, dated February 11, 2006; one full page from the News section of the Chronicle Herald, dated March 3, 2006; one copy of the April, 2006 issue of Wayves; one full page from the News section of the Chronicle Herald, dated April 30, 2006; Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project general correspondence; and notes.
File contains correspondence between the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project and the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association, inviting the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project to participate in the 2006 Multicultural Health Fair. File also contains notes, one Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project pamphlet, and one pamphlet for the Enhancing Resiliency in Adults in Response to the Impacts of Childhood Abuse presentation, put on by The Gatehouse Adult Support Network.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's application for funding from the Nova Scotia Law Foundation Millennium Projects fund, including correspondence between Bob Fougere and Michael MacDonald. Materials also include one copy of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's completed application, together with letters of support from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, AIDS Coalition Nova Scotia, valleyPRIDE Social Club, Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project, and the Homosexual Agenda.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's participation in various research projects. Materials include one copy of survey questions for a 2005 study on gender and aggression conducted by Dr. Nancy Bartlett of Mount Saint Vincent University and associated correspondence; one invitation to participate in a study on nursing care for lesbians during childbirth, conducted by Lisa Goldberg of Dalhousie University, associated correspondence, and 1 copy of the project's research proposal; 1 package of information regarding a study on homophobia and heterosexism in undergraduate medical education, conducted by Dr. Frank Blye of Dalhousie University, and associated correspondence.
