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Dalhousie University Archives Lynn Murphy collection Pride celebrations
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CODCO pink maple leaf Pride banner

Item is a hand-painted banner made of a white bedsheet decorated with a pink maple leaf and glitter glue with "CODCO" in the centre. Newfound-based comedy troupe CODCO participated in the 1992 Halifax Pride parade.

CODCO pink triangle Pride banner

Item is a hand-painted banner made of white cotton covered in purple handprints and colourful brush marks, featuring the acronym "CODCO" in black text over a large pink triangle. The Newfoundland-based comedy troupe CODCO participated in the 1992 Halifax Pride parade.

Demonstration banners and flags

Series contains banners and flags created or collected by members of the Gay and Lesbian Association for use in Pride marches, GALA meetings, and other political demonstrations in Nova Scotia.

Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] posters, banners and flags

Series includes posters, banners and flags created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for various events. Series contains one subseries of posters (and negatives) for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by GALA, and another subseries of banners and flags used during Pride marches, demonstrations, and GALA meetings.

In Memoriam Pride banner

Item is a tie-dyed banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) with handwritten text in felt marker that reads: "In Memoriam—Killed by Nazis—Killed by AIDS—Killed by Halifax—QUEER BASHERS," with tombstones drawn next to each displaying those years during which members of the LGBT community were killed.

Lavender striped flag

Item is a cream swallow-tailed gonfalon flag with two diagonal lavender stripes. The flag was used in demonstrations and marches organized by the Gay and Lesbian Association.

Lynn Murphy collection

  • MS-15-3
  • Collection
  • 1972-1996
Collection contains records collected by Lynn Murphy through her association with the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) of Nova Scotia, and her participation in organizing Halifax Pride marches, parades and other LGBT initiatives. Records include posters, banners and flags created or collected by GALA; posters promoting LGBT-related events in Halifax and elsewhere; posters for LGBT films; posters encouraging safe-sex practices and political activism; and Pride Guide mockups from 1996 and 1998.

Murphy, Lynn

Nova Scotia Human Rights Act banner

Item is a hand-painted pink and brown banner reading "Every person is free in dignity and equal rights — NS Human Rights Act" created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA).

Pride 95 'banner

Item is a hand-painted cotton banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for the 1995 Halifax Pride parade featuring pink text outlined in black that reads "PRIDE '95" flanked by two black circles filled with pink triangles.

Printed posters and acetate negatives

Series contains paper posters and acetate negatives of posters for meetings, lectures, Pride events, parties, stage shows and dances, many of them held at Rumours, a Halifax bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance [GALA].

Send a Dyke to Holland banner

Item is a banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA), then called the Gay Alliance for Equality, for an unknown event in 1985. The banner is white fabric illustrated in the style of a Gaezette article, featuring a person standing in front of a windmill, with the headline "Send a Dyke to Holland."

Straight but Not Narrow Pride banner

Item is a hand-painted fabric banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) featuring black-and-red text that reads "STRAIGHT but NOT NARROW" over top of a pink triangle.

We Are Family! Halifax Pride Week 1992 banner

Item is a white banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for the 1990 Halifax Pride parade featuring the text "We are family! Lesbian and Gay Pride 1990" next to two interlocking Venus symbols over a pink triangle.