Fonds comprises records documenting Marq de Villiers' work as a journalist and writer of non-fiction. Record types include manuscripts and published work—including collaborations with his wife, Sheila Hirtle; correspondence; publicity and reviews; and a small series of personal photographs and photographs taken in the course of his research.
Series contains administrative records for the GayLine, established in 1972. GayLine was renamed to the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Line in 1994. Materials in this series include GayLine monthly and annual reports; call logs and templates; staff notebooks; correspondence; memos, minutes, and a certificate of incorporation relating to the name change; and notes.
File contains correspondence regarding the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual (GLB) Line's Maritime Tel and Tel account balance irregularities, one meeting agenda for the annual general meeting of the GLB Line held on 1995-02-15, minutes from the 1994 annual general meeting held on 1994-01-11, one copy of the 1994 financial report, and two lists of GLB Line personnel.
Series contains materials used in the recruitment and training of GayLine volunteers. Materials include training session records and schedules; help line manuals and crisis intervention strategies; GayLine pamphlets; volunteer application forms, information sheets, and guidelines; and correspondence relating to volunteers.
File contains GayLine volunteer application form and information sheet for volunteers, a press release celebrating GayLine's 20th anniversary, one blank call sheet, one list of GayLines across Canada, and correspondence from a GayLine caller.
Series contains reference materials used by volunteers of the GayLine. Series is divided into two subseries. The first sub-series contains reference and educational materials used by GayLine volunteers covering issues such as 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, legal briefs and resources, newsletters, essays, and bibliographies. The second subseries contains reference materials relating to the operations of other helplines, as well as information about LGBT businesses and services, community groups, and events in Halifax, across Canada, and in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Oceania. Materials include advertisements and press releases, pamphlets, newsletters, flyers, information sheets, and directories.
File contains correspondence, pamphlets, and newsletters from Sparrow, a support community for gay and lesbian Christians. File also contains one copy of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Directory of Congregations and Clergy.
File contains an amendment to chapter 214 news release; clippings; memos; press release in support of including LGBT individuals in the Human Rights Legislation; pink triangle armband; correspondence; calls for donations; a list of individuals and organizations who wrote to MLA's with sending a copy to LGRNS; draft copy of an opinion article for the Halifax Herald; transcripts of an assembly debate; and a submission in respect of the Human Rights Act Bill 136.
File contains clippings, notes, web print-outs, illustrations, article drafts, advertisement mock-ups, sample logos, photos printed on office paper, correspondence, and contact lists collected for the purpose of creating content for Wayves Magazine.
File contains draft articles and writing submissions, notes, correspondence, and graphic material used in the production of the Wayves literary supplement Punaqun.
File documents Norman Hebert’s time as a representative of the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union in the Dalhousie Labour University Committee from 1982 to 1985. Meetings took place at the Henson Centre, Dalhousie University. Records include meeting minutes by Donald Maclean, a list of labour courses offered by Dalhousie University, and memoranda notifying committee members of meeting dates.
Fonds comprises records documenting the genesis and early years of Chebucto Community Net. Record types include meeting minutes and agendas; founding documents (i.e., draft mission statements and terms of reference); press releases and media reports; limited financial information; business plans; and correspondence.
File contains records produced as part of the operations of the TightRope Leather Brotherhood. Materials include notices and flyers for events put on by TightRope and the Toronto-based leather club Spearhead between 1992 and 2001; administrative and financial records including general meeting and elections notices from 2000 and 2001, meeting minutes dated 2000 to 2002, budgets and financial statements produced between 1993 and 2000, and a certificate of incorporation from 1997; correspondence regarding TightRope operations dated 2000 to 2003; and dungeon rules and hanky codes
File contains one copy of the open letter entitled For your information – We are the men who took our shirts off last Saturday night. This letter was written by members of the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) in response to a ban on shirtless dancing for women at Rumours bar and related actions undertaken by members of GALA's board.
File contains correspondence between Budge Wilson and Mark Altman of Morning Music regarding rights to reference "Song for the Mira" in "A Fiddle for Angus." The file also contains a copy of the song, for piano and voice, by Allister MacGillivray.
Fonds comprises records related to Terrence Gordon's biography of Marshall McLuhan published in 1997 and includes correspondence with publishers and reviewers; a curriculum vitae; a manuscript draft; newspaper clippings and copies of reviews; and secondary research materials. Other records include the working papers from three books edited by Gordon: McLuhan Unbound, Understanding Media (Critical Edition) and The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time.
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.
Subseries contains materials documenting the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, a men's leather club established in Halifax in the early 1990s, incorporated in 1997, and disbanded in 2007. Subseries contains administrative and financial records, planning and promotional materials, correspondence, printouts from TightRope's website, and photographs of TightRope members and events.
Series contains materials collected as part of Stewart's LGBT advocacy at St John's United Church in Halifax, and his subsequent involvement with Affirm United, an advocacy organization founded in 1982 that supports LGBTQ members of the United Church of Canada. Stewart was involved in the process of achieving Affirmed status for St John's United Church through the Affirming Ministries Program. Series contains articles, essays, and pamphlets regarding homosexuality and religion; informational documents associated with Affirm United and the Affirmation Congregation Program; manuals and other reference materials relating to the operation of Affirmed congregations; correspondence; issues of Consensus, the Affirm United newsletter; and issues of Open Hands, a journal published by Affirmations: United Methodists for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.
Series contains materials from the organization Churchmembers Assembled to React to AIDS (CARA or CARAS) and includes meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, and educational materials. Fonds also contains records from two projects run by CARA: Morton House, a hospice for people living with AIDS, and AIDS-LINK, a project aimed at connecting people with AIDS to resources and support.
Series contains materials related to AIDS-LINK, a volunteer-based project operated by CARAS to institute interfaith pastoral services for persons living with HIV/AIDS. The project was launched in 1996 and ceased operations in the early 2000s.
File contains a draft copy of a document outlining what AIDS-LINK is and who they serve, handwritten notes, a final draft of the mission vision statement, a copy of AIDS community action program funding guidelines, pamphlets for CARAS, a press release, and correspondence.
File contains correspondence with CARAS donors dated 1996 to 1997. Correspondence primarily related to donations made in the name of Dr. Peter Brothers. File also contains Brothers' obituary, a program from his funeral service, and notes regarding donations.
File contains materials regarding a CARAS survey of churches and religious groups to identify attitudes towards individuals with HIV/AIDS and faith groups' involvement with CARAS or other HIV/AIDS support programs. Materials include the survey report, correspondence, memos, minutes, and notes.
File contains draft copies of administrative documents, including the memorandum of association, bi-laws, and job descriptions. File also contains one draft copy of a 1989 evaluation report; one copy of the July 1988 strategic plan, and associated planning materials and notes; workshop information, schedules, and registration forms; correspondence; and recommendations for the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS.
File contains AIDS Nova Scotia executive committee records, including meeting agendas and minutes, notes, memos and correspondence, and other administrative materials from 1989-1990. File also contains agendas, minutes, and schedules for other AIDS-related meetings and events, background information regarding other AIDS initiatives, research surveys and interview questions produced by the Persons With AIDS Coalition, and internal policies and guidelines.
File contains AIDS Nova Scotia executive committee records, including meeting agendas and minutes, notes, memos and correspondence, internal reports, strategies and contingency plans, and a mission statement. File also contains fundraising guidelines, job descriptions, financial records.
File contains Metro Area Committee on AIDS executive meeting records, including agendas and minutes, notes, memos and correspondence, internal reports, terms of reference, and other administrative materials from 1987-1989. File also contains budgets, financial statements, and job descriptions.
File contains records of the Metro Area Committee on AIDS public education committee from 1987-1988. Materials include meeting agendas and minutes, committee reports, policies and guidelines, project proposals, planning materials, schedules, reference materials, notes, budgets, internal evaluations, correspondence, and workshop materials.
File contains Halifax Pride planning materials from 2006, including agendas, correspondence, one events guide, planning materials for an event at Venus Envy, one interfaith service brochure, one pamphlet regarding gay health, and one chart listing event coordinators and their responsibilities.
Subseries contains materials related to NSRAP's advocacy efforts for members of the transgender community in Nova Scotia, including lobbying and research related to gender confirming treatments and procedures, and planning and promotional materials for Transgender Day of Remembrance events. Series also includes workshop materials, educational resources, clippings, and correspondence.
File contains materials relating to the advocacy activities of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project in relation to sexual reassignment surgery. File contains pamphlets mock-ups, Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting agendas, communications plans, correspondence, news clippings, memos, selections from the MSI Physicians manual, report drafts, PowerPoint Slides, and educational resources.
File contains one pamphlet with information on the Community Development Fund application process for 2005, one copy of the pamphlet Sexual diversity in the workplace; one copy of the traditional gender model; one copy of Medical Procedures Related to Transgender Health as an MSI Benefit for Nova Scotians; one copy of draft 13 of Understanding Transsexuality: A Workshop; one packet of information regarding transgender youth and their involvement with the Youth Project; budgets for May 2012; one copy of the Trans Pride Canada: Style Guide; correspondence 2010-2012; news clippings dated 2011; notes; and educational materials relating to transgender health.
Subseries contains materials relating to NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Operating between 2004-2006, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project was formed by Capital Health to research ways of increasing access to primary care services for members of Nova Scotia's LGBTQ community. It was a joint effort between the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, and the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Project. Materials in subseries include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, project proposals, reference and planning materials, job postings, notes, and reports.
