Item is a poster for a multi-city benefit event (Seattle, Portland and Vancouver) held on August 5, 1989 in support of the Gay Games III/Celebration 90 held in Vancouver, BC from August 4-11, 1990.
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 three posters encouraging safe-sex as HIV/AIDS prevention; one poster admonishing the Reagan administration, the Centre for Disease Control and the Vatican for their lack of action in preventing the AIDS epidemic; and one poster featuring the European Parliament's resolution on sexual discrimination in the workplace.