File contains one copy of the inaugural issue of H2OMO, the gay, gay-friendly, gay-curious magazine from Canada's east coast. The magazine covers New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
File contains one printed banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association for Halifax Pride Week 1992. Banner is a piece of white fabric printed with black text that read "WE ARE FAMILY—HALIFAX PRIDE WEEK 1992", featuring a large image of a pink triangle overlaid by four interlocked venus and mars symbols.
File consists of reports, letterhead stationary, Pride logo contest submissions, notes, correspondence, draft schedules for Pride Week, proposed Pride workshops, Pride Guide planning materials, and press releases.
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.
File contains one full draft and one partial draft copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Assessment Tool; two press releases from Capital Health relating to LGBT health care initiatives; one volume of the workbook Practical Coaching Skills for Managers, by Rick Seymour; one flyer for the children's book Uncle Aiden by Laurel Dykstra; notes; and three copies of a list of appendices for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project final report.
File contains two draft copies of the report Halifax Rainbow Health Project: Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community with revisions, as well as one report summary, dated March, 2005; one set of copies of slides for a presentation entitled Inclusion Program In-service, printed on computer paper; and a copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Inclusion Program Assessment Tool.
File contains drafts of reports and tools published by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, including the Family Services Association Assessment Report dated November, 2005; the Phoenix Youth Programs Assessment Report dated December, 2005; and the Assessment Tool Guidelines dated January, 2006.
File contains three copies of a pamphlet for the Healthy Sexualities, Healthy Lives conference that took place March 23-24, 2002 in Charlottetown, PEI. File also contains one copy of The Arc Quarterly winter 2002 issue.
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.
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.
File contains educational resources related to HIV/AIDS. Materials include one copy of Needle Points: A Health Guide for People Injecting Drugs, pamphlets relating to LGBT employment and health issues; one copy of the February, 1998 issue of the needle exchange newsletter Junkmail; one printout of Appendix D from HIV, AIDS and Injection Drug Use: A National Action Plan by the Canadian Public Health Association dated May, 1997; one copy of Managing the Non-Compliant HIV-Infected Individual: Experiences from a Local Health Department; one copy of The National Action Plan on HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug Use: A Call to Action; and selections from Under the Influence: Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs.
File contains posters for three HIV/AIDS related events in Halifax, one pamphlet regarding health services for Black women in rural Nova Scotia, and one copy of the zine Militant Queer Insurrection.
File contains a document titled "Management of HIV disease: One physician's approach"; a list of items added to the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission AIDS library; conference proceedings from a workshop on palliative care for persons with AIDS; a list of regional coordinators for home care programs; a list of resources available through the International Conference on AIDS 1993; a newsletter from AIDS Nova Scotia; and a questionnaire from Metro United Way regarding health care and community needs.
File contains one hand-painted banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA). Banner is made from a brown piece of fabric and a white piece of fabric sewn together, and painted with black text that reads "Every person is free & equal in dignity & rights — NS Human Rights Act".
File contains materials such as correspondence, notices, and briefs from organizations fighting for equal rights and protection under the human rights code in Manitoba.
File contains three annotated drafts of the report Improving Access to Heathcare for the Rainbow Community by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and accompanying written notes.
File contains one draft copy of the report Improving Access to Primary Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health: A Proposal to Capital Health, produced by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project dated December 4, 2004. File also contains accompanying correspondence.
File contains one handmade banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA). Banner is a tie-dyed piece of white fabric with handwritten text in marker that reads "In Memoriam—Killed by Nazis—Killed by AIDS—Killed by Halifax—QUEER BASHERS", with tombstones drawn next to each line of text displaying the years during which members of the LGBT community were killed by each respectively entity.
File contains one training manual for Inform-AIDS, a toll-free helpline operated by the Metro Area Committee on AIDS, designed to provide information about HIV/AIDS.
File contains an audio recording and transcript of an interview with Anne Bishop and Jan Morrell. Bishop and Morrell discuss their interactions with the LGBT community and organizations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario; their political activism; and navigating communal living in Pictou County in the 1980s. The interview was conducted by Elizabeth Fitting on February 24th, 2022 as part of the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors’ Archive’s Lesbian Oral Histories Project.
