File is an audio reel containing an interview with Phil Shaw of the AIDS Committee of Toronto on Patient Zero (Gaetan Dugas), a Quebec man thought to be the first case of AIDS in the United States. He discusses the fear generated by the fact that Patient Zero lived in Toronto, and Dartmouth from 1977-1979, and journalist Randy Shilts' book claiming that Patient Zero was solely responsible for the spread of AIDS in North America. The interview was conducted by CKDU's Donna Mayer. The episode was recorded on October 15, 1987.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features an interview with Phillip Tahmindjis, a law and human rights expert, on his article regarding his legal response to AIDS in Australia. The episode was recorded on March 19, 1989, and was broadcasted on March 20, 1989.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with Reverend Bob Petite, parish priest of St. George's Anglican Church and a member of the organizing committee for the National AIDS Vigil in Halifax, on the event (held the next day). The interview was conducted by CKDU's Robert Matthews. The episode was recorded on May 24, 1988, and was broadcast on the same day on The Evening Affair, a CKDU program.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with Robert Allen, the Executive Director of Nova Scotia Person's With AIDS Coalition (NSPWAC). Allen spoke with CKDU's Dan Hart about the AIDS conference in Paris and latest developments on AIDS testing in Nova Scotia. The interview aired November 19, 1990 on Title Waves, a CKDU radio program, and was rebroadcast November 28, 1990 on The Evening Affair, CKDU's evening public affairs program.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with new administrative coordinator for the People With AIDS Coalition (PWAC on Gottigen Street), Robert Allen, on their work with AIDS and the money provided to them in a federal grant. The interview was conducted by CKDU's Doug LaPierre. The episode was recorded on August 3, 1989, and was broadcast on the same day, and on August 8, 1989 and September 1, 1989 on The Evening Affair and The Wireless, CKDU programs.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with the Student Union of Nova Scotia AIDS Education Committee's Royden Trainor. The interview was conducted by CKDU's Lisa Monk. The episode was recorded on September 18, 1989, and was broadcast on September 22, 1989 on The Wireless, a CKDU program.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with Roseanne Leblanc of AIDS Nova Scotia on the role of community organizations and funding concerns related to AIDS counseling and education services locally. The interview was conducted by Adam Oster. The episode was recorded on November 25, 1992, and was broadcast on the same day, December 1, 1992, and March 2, 1993 on The Evening Affair, a CKDU program.
File is an audio reel containing an interview with the Student Union of Nova Scotia AIDS Education Committee's Royden Trainor. The Student Union had recently published a pamphlet called "SEX" to distribute to students, using language students would use, as well as a corresponding video. The interview was conducted by CKDU's Jacqueline Langille. The episode was recorded on October 6, 1989, and was broadcast on October 12, 1989 on The Wireless, a CKDU program.
Series contains audio reels from CKDU radio with interviews and reports conducted by CKDU radio hosts on health topics, including LGBTQ+ issues and AIDS.
File is an audio reel that contains an episode of Outlook. This episode is the eighth part of a series entitled Issues of Faith. The episode features Jim Anderson, Lutheran, with Madeleine Comeau of the Halifax Metropolitan Area Committee on AIDS. It aired March 1987 and was rebroadcast March 11, 1987; April 1, 1987; and July 17, 1987 on Title Waves, a CKDU radio program.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features J. Royden Trainor, an author of legal LGBT texts, on the SUNS AIDS project. The episode was recorded on March 7, 1988, and was broadcasted on September 12, 1988.
Fonds contains materials related to Janet Conners' advocacy work for recipients of tainted blood products and other persons with HIV/AIDS. Janet's and her husband, Randy Conners, contracted HIV when Randy, a hemophiliac, was treated with infected blood. After publicly announcing Randy's diagnosis in 1991, the Conners provided testimony to the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada [the Krever Inquiry], and became advocates for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Janet revealed her HIV positive status upon Randy's death in 1994. Materials in fonds include legal documents, correspondence, speaking notes, press releases, day planners, awards and honorary degrees, and photographs.
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.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Ken Ward of the Enoch reserve outside of Edmonton. Ken was diagnosed with HIV in January, and shortly after started the "A Feather of Hope" campaign educating indigenous people about AIDS. He visited Halifax to speak with other indigenous groups and to be interviewed for the video "Life After Diagnosis" (People With Aids coalition). The episode was recorded on April 29, 1990, and was broadcasted on May 1, 1990.
File is an audio reel that contains an episode of From a Different Perspective, a radio program broadcast on CKDU 97.5. This episode is on AIDS with Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia (1964 - 1991). The episode aired in 1990 and was rebroadcast October 31, 1990 on The Evening Affair, CKDU's evening public affairs program.
File is an audio reel that contains an episode of From a Different Perspective, a radio program broadcast on CKDU 97.5. This episode is on Kenya, the Kemron Factor, and AIDS. The episode was originally produced by N. Richmond for D.E.C. Radio, Toronto, Ontario. It was rebroadcast on CKDU on December 19, 1990.
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.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of Learning About AIDS, a two-part radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. The episode is part 1 of 2 featuring AIDS and prevention.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of Learning About AIDS, a two-part radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. The episode is part 2 of 2 titled "MacAIDS : education and fear."
File is an audio reel containing a lecture by Cindy Patton from the Department of Communications and Rhetoric at Temple University, Philadelphia. Patton gave a lecture, entitled "Women and AIDS," at St. Mary's University on January 13, 1993. It aired on CKDU the same day and was rebroadcast January 20, 1993 on The Evening Affair; January 27, 1993 at 11 am; February 23, 1993 on Living After Diagnosis; August 23, 1993 on The Evening Affair; and April 19, 1994 on The Evening Affair.
File containts seven pamphlets about services provided by the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project, a community organization that supports LGBT youth.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Leslie Barnes, vice president of the Metro Area committee on AIDS, and news. The episode was recorded on March 28, 1988, and was broadcasted on the same day.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Leslie Barnes, vice president of the Metro Area committee on AIDS, on the upcoming Names Project, and a safe sex promotion. The episode was recorded on April 2, 1989, and was broadcasted on April 3, 1989.
Collection contains duplicate materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in collection include posters; programs, flyers, and promotional materials; pamphlets and outreach materials; and wearable ephemera including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia. Materials in series relate to Halifax Pride and other pride celebrations, political demonstrations, Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] operations and events, Halifax Fetish Ball and Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather events, Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] meetings and operations, events held at Rumours bar, LGBT films, and other LGBT causes and events.
File contains posters for LGBT events in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.. File contains one poster for an AIDS Vigil held at Grand Parade in Halifax; one poster advertising viewings of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at Gorsebrook School in Halifax from 1990-11-30 to 1990-12-3; one poster for a vigil commemorating the one year anniversary of the Polytechnique Massacre held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on 1990-12-6; one poster for the Black and Blue Party hosted by Bad Boy Club Montreal in October, 1994; one poster for the We're Funny That Way in Toronto during April, 1990; one poster for the 1989 Seattle Queen City Cruise; and one poster for National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights held 1987-10-11.
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 is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features a video "Life After Diagnosis" that focuses on living with HIV+ or AIDS, not dying from them, from the People With AIDS (PWA) coalition. The video premiered in the Sir James Dunn theatre at Dalhousie. The tape includes three features. The episode was recorded on June 18, 1990, and was broadcasted on the same day, June 19, 1990, and June 22, 1990.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features a live broadcast of various topics including gay pride week, and editorial, Halifax AIDS activist Peter Woods on an international AIDS conference in Montreal, and a gay and lesbian library in Halifax. The episode was recorded on June 27, 1989.
Series contains audio reels from the CKDU radio 88.1 program Living After Diagnosis. This program is a multi-part series on living with AIDS, which aired once a month on CKDU radio.
File contains regarding correspondence, memos, press releases, and lobbying materials regarding AIDS education, advocacy, and the proposed inclusion of protections based on sexual orientation to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Code.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of Earth Action, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. The episode features long term survivors of AIDS, and includes Dan Hart and local AIDS activist James Shedden. The episode aired on July 28, 1992 on The Evening Affair, CKDU's evening public affairs radio program.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features Donald Martin (a Toronto-based writer who wrote "No Blame" and "One Out of Four", about AIDS and male prostitution) speaking on male prostitution, AIDS, and the gay movement with CKDU's Dan Hart. Martin was also featured in the Dalhousie Student Union's Magnificent Six lecture series that year. The episode was recorded on January 18, 1989, and was broadcasted on January 24, 1989.
File is an audio reel containing a feature on Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill, on ethics and AIDS. This portion discusses privacy and confidentiality. The episode was recorded on November 6, 1991, and was broadcast on January 28, 1992 on The Word is Out, a CKDU program.
File is an audio reel containing a feature on Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill, on ethics and AIDS. The episode was recorded on November 6, 1991, and was broadcast on December 3 and 11, 1991 on The Word is Out and Title Waves, CKDU programs.
File is an audio reel containing a feature on Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill, on ethics and AIDS. Part 1 is 7 min. 15 sec., and part 2 is 7 min. 37 sec. The episode was recorded on November 6, 1991, and was broadcast on January 7, 1992 on The Word is Out, a CKDU program.
File is an audio reel containing a feature on Margaret Somerville, professor of law and medicine at McGill, on ethics and AIDS. Part 1 discusses human rights, and part 2 focuses on AIDS testing (these are also called parts A and B on the tape). The episode was recorded on November 6, 1991, and was broadcast on January 14, 1992, and January 21, 1992 on The Word is Out, a CKDU program.
File contains a list of all members of the executive of the Gay Alliance for Equality [GAE] from 1985-1988, including positions and approximate terms. File also contains a first draft of Christians Assembled to Respond to AIDS (CARAS) "Brief to the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS".
Item is a videocassette of a presentation by Dalhousie Medical School students under the leadership of Dr. Mary Murphy from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. The video consists of a slide show and speech and was requested by Mrs. Nancy Ruedy from the Dean's Office.
File contains materials related to the Men Who Have Sex With Men Project, a joint research project organized by the Canadian AIDS Society, supported by the Nova Scotia Persons With AIDS Coalition and the Atlantic AIDS Network. Materials include reports, recommendations, correspondence, memos, job descriptions and submissions, notes, press releases, strategic plans, and reference materials.
File contains materials related to the Men Who Have Sex With Men Project, including memos and correspondence, project proposals, progress reports, pamphlets, and reference materials.
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 is an audio reel containing an episode of The Word is Out, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode features MAC AIDS (the Metro Area Committee on AIDS), an update, and how it relates to the gay community, and The Return, a song by Ferron. The episode was recorded on February 5, 1989, and was broadcasted on February 6, 1989.
Subseries contains documents relating to the operation of Morton House, a residence and hospice in Halifax operated by CARAS for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Morton House was established in 1988 and closed in the early 2000s.
File contains documentation and correspondence regarding 2277 Brunswick Street, which became the site of Morton House. Materials include the Morton House proposal, property deed, correspondence regarding mortgage guarantees, and rental policy documents.
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.
