File contains one hand-painted banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA). Banner is a white piece of fabric that features black and red text that reads "STRAIGHT but NOT NARROW" over top of a pink triangle.
File contains the Stonewall Tavern Annual Humanitarian Award, a plaque presented to Ross Boutilier in recognition of the achievement and struggle that enriches our community and our lives.
File contains one banner produced 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 made of white fabric, and is drawn in the style of a Gaezette article. The banner features a drawing of a person standing in front of a windmill proclaiming with a headline that reads "Send a Dyke to Holland".
Subseries includes records created or used for Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church programming, including workshop materials, sermons, calendars and service programs.
File contains five hand painted posters produced by Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include four posters feature religious messages, and one poster for Winter Wonder-land, a drag show held at Rumours bar to benefit Safe Harbour.
File contains materials relating to the operation and disbanding of the music committee for Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include sheet music, correspondence and notes.
File contains one booklet of reports provided to attendees of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church's annual general meeting, held on 1993-02-07.
File contains materials relating to the annual congressional business meeting of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, held on 1994-02-06. Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence from Reverend Darlene Young to Safe Harbour congregants, and a seventeen page booklet of agendas, reports, and membership lists.
Series comprises records documenting the evolution and history of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, including meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, and programming and workshop materials.
Series contains materials related to the operations of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, a Halifax-based church for LGBTQ+ Christians that operated from 1991-2011. Materials in series include meeting minutes, correspondence, workshop materials, church programs, speaking notes, clippings, and promotional materials.
File contains printed flyer and mock up for the Come as Your Favourite Sinner! Halloween party, which took placed October 31, 1987 at Rumours gay and lesbian bar in Halifax.
File contains materials relating to roundtables and workshops conducted as part of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Materials include agenda and minutes from the Nova Scotia Roundtable on Youth Sexual Health, held on November 3, 2004; facilitator's notes; participant evaluations from the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Future Directions workshop; Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project correspondence dated 2004-2005; one set of presentation slides for the Future Directions workshop, printed on computer paper; two copies of a promotional flyer for the Future Directions workshop; focus group guidelines; one set of presentation slides for the Capital Health/Halifax Rainbow Health Project Focus Group and Survey Data Summary presentation; Halifax Rainbow Health Project/Capital Health Data Collection Committee meeting agendas; Halifax Rainbow Health Project events calendars for September to October 2004; one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Focus Group Guide; one flyer for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; one copy of the Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community in Capital Health Anonymous Questionnaire; and one copy of the draft list of invitees for a primary care providers focus group.
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.
File also contains a brochure for the 1991 Women's Health Education Network (WHEN) conference and an information sheet for the ninth annual Wild Womyn's Weekend (1991).
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.
File contains one copy of a resource list of feminist services and organizations in Halifax, co-sponsored by A Women's Place and the Halifax City Regional Library.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Materials include copies of the coordinator's reports from 2004-2005; one copy of the essay Queer Health Matters: Transgender healthcare needs by Eric MacDonald and Dawn Archibald, dated June 27, 2005; a summary of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project final report; one copy of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition Improved Access to Care 2005 reporting guidelines; correspondence dated 2004-2005; and notes.
File contains one web print-out from 2004 entitled Same-Sex Marriage for Transsexuals?; one sheet of information regarding Ontario's 2005 tribunal on sexual reassignment surgery; correspondence from 2005; one copy of the essay An Introduction to Transgender Women by participants of the 1999 Women's Legal Education and Action Fund forum; and one package of slides from the presentation Transsexual Health Care in Nova Scotia.
File contains the Reflections community appreciation award plaque presented to Ross Boutilier for his participation in the Halifax Pride committee, 1999.
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 two copies of project proposal for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, entitled The Halifax Rainbow Health Project: Improving Access to Primary Health Care Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited, Transgender and Queer People, published April, 2004. File also contains excerpts from the proposal; two coordinator's reports, dated July and August, 2004; one interim financial report, dated October 31, 2004; one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project work plan for 2004-2005; Steering Committee terms of reference; one copy of the partnership agreement between the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition and the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project; letters of support; two copies of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Director's Resolution in support of the creation of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; and notes.
File contains one copy each of the 2002 Ottawa Pride guide, the 2009 Toronto Pride guide, the 2009 Halifax Pride guide, and the June 2009 issue of Index, Toronto's gay and lesbian business directory.
File contains one hand-painted banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for the 1995 Halifax Pride parade. Banner is painted on a white piece of fabric, and features pink text outlined in black that reads "PRIDE '95". Banner also features two black circles filled with pink triangles on either side of the text.
File contains a document titled "Presentation the the public meetings re. race relations, cross cultural understanding, and human rights" which was delivered to the Halifax County - Bedford School Board by LGRNS. File also contains a list of quotes on lesbian and gay youth.
File contains posters for Fetish Ball events held between 2004-2013, event cards for the 2007 Fetish Ball, and flyers for the 2007 Fetish Evening. File also contains event descriptions, release forms, and printing invoices.
File contains posters for events held at Rumours bar. File includes one poster for Rumours' Pride events, held from June 26 to July 1, 1993; one poster for the Christmas in July event, held on 1993-07-24; one poster for the Winter blues meltdown, held on 1994-02-25; and one poster mock-up for the We are everywhere women's dance / Hot hot hot men's dance events, held on 1994-06-24.
File contains posters for Halifax lesbian and gay pride week 1988, held between 1988-06-25 and 1988-07-04; and Images of lesbian sexuality, a slide presentation and talk by Cyndra MacDowall featuring images from 1850-1990, held at Rumours bar on 1991-05-06.
File contains posters for the Gay and Lesbian Association 1992 general meeting, and the Black and Blue Party hosted by Bad Boy Club Montreal in October, 1994.
File contains posters for events at Rumours, a bar in Halifax that was owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) from 1982 to 1995. File includes one poster for the Rumour's goes to the movies event, held on May 21-23, 1993; one poster for the Winter blues meltdown, held on 1994-02-25; three posters for the Valentine's weekend event, held on February 12-13, 1994; and three posters for the Jest for laughs comedy show, held on 1993-09-06.
File contains posters for events at Rumours, a bar in Halifax that was owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) from 1982 to 1995. File includes three copies of the poster for the Bahama nights event, held on 1993-01-23; two copies of the poster for the Mad Hatter's tea party, held 1993-03-13; three copies of the poster for the One size fits all Christmas party and show, held December 4-5, 1993; and three copies of the poster for the original music review Everybody says don't, held on 1993-10-10.
File contains posters for events at Rumours, a bar in Halifax that was owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia (GALA) from 1982 to 1995. File includes three posters for Rumours' Pride events, held from June 26 to July 1, 1993; three posters for the Easter weekend events, held April 8th and 10th, 1993; three poster for the Christmas in July event, held on 1993-07-24; and one poster for A rhapsody in blue New Year's event, held on 1992-12-31.
File contains posters for events held at Rumours bar. Materials include one poster for Bahama nights, held on 1993-01-23; one poster for the Easter weekend event, held April 8th and 10th, 1993; one poster for the May day dance, held 1993-05-01; one poster for Rumour's goes to the movies, held May 21-23, 1993; and one poster for the original music review Everybody says don't, held on 1993-10-10.
