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.
Fonds primarily contains records of the GayLine a phone helpline for LGBT Nova Scotians funding by GAE/GALA that operated between 1972-1996. In 1994 the name was changed to the Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Line. Fonds contains three series; one containing administrative and financial records, one containing recruitment and training materials, and one containing reference materials for volunteers. Materials include monthly and annual reports; meeting minutes; call logs and templates; staff notebooks; correspondence; pamphlets; volunteer training session materials, application forms and guidelines; flyers; legal briefs and resources; newsletters; essays; bibliographies; and directories.
Subseries contains materials collected for reference and educational use by GayLine volunteers. Subjects covered include 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, newsletters, essays, and correspondence.
File contains copies of News and Views, the newsletter for the Nova Scotia Persons With AIDS Coalition [NSPWAC], dated 1989-1994; one copy of the 1989 annual report; one agenda for the 1996 general meeting; 1995 financial statements; and one copy of the 1995 Black Outreach Project report.
File contains five pamphlets produced by AIDS Nova Scotia, one letter of support from the Nova Scotia Liberal, and issues of the ANS newsletter Thinking Positively published between 1992-1994.
File contains one copy of the summer 2000 issue of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia newsletter, featuring an obituary for Al Stewart's friend Wilson Hodder, and one copy of the Nova Scotia HIV/AIDS in the workplace policy enacted 2001-11-16.
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.
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 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.
