Item consists of the first issue of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia's quarterly newsletter, a supplement to the December-January 1999 issue of Wayves. Includes articles from Jane Allen, Robert ALlan, Peter Fritz, Paul Laybolt, Renee Masching, Roy Ellis, Ned MacInnis Chris Aucoin, Al McNutt, and Daryl Harding MacLean. Also includes a memorial of Dr Bruce Elliott (noted for his work treating patients with HIV/AIDS), and a listing of events.
Item consists of the second issue of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia's quarterly newsletter, a supplement to the March 2000 issue of Wayves. Includes articles from Chris Aucoin, Al McNutt, Alexander Gallant, Holly Mitchell, Peter Fritz, Roy Ellis, Daryl Harding-MacLean, Gwen Atkinson, Jane Allen, and Larry Baxter. Also includes a listing of events.
Item consists of the third issue of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia's quarterly newsletter, a supplement to the August 2000 issue of Wayves. Includes articles from Al McNutt, Chris Aucoin and Alex Archie (remembering Wilson Hodder), Paul Laybolt, Ann Silversides, Gwen Atkinson, Michelle Proctor-Simms, Vida Woodworth, Donna G., and Joanne Bond. Also includes a profile of Nicole Close, and a listing of events.
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.
Fonds contains records documenting Ross Boutilier's legal challenges over same-sex benefits and equal treatment in Nova Scotia and provincial and federal legislation to gain access to same-sex marriage. Other series include production and administrative records of Wayves magazine, committee records of Halifax Pride, and newspaper clippings about the LGBTQ community in Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada.
