Item is a document published for Connections '95. "Gay and Lesbian Adolescents" presented by Trish Stenson, A.M.Y.S.T. Counselling Associates and Caroline Wilkins.
File contains correspondence from the House of Assembly Nova Scotia and the Department of Human Resources; a briefing note titled "Same-Sex Spousal Employee Benefits"; an Assembly Debate; a document created by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia (LGRNS) calling for the extension of employee benefits to Lesbian and Gay employees; a copy of the Human Rights Act Chapter 214 amended 1991; one pamphlet on HIV.AIDS Discrimination; on pamphlet on the Human Rights Comission; and a guide to the Human Rights Comission.
Collection is comprised of materials collected by Don Murchy as part of his involvement with the TightRope Leather Brotherhood, a men's leather and denim club that operated in Nova Scotia from the early 1990s to 2007. Materials document TightRope operations, as well as the involvement of TightRope members in Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather contests and Halifax Fetish Ball events. Materials in this collection include administrative records, by-laws and guiding documents, membership lists, posters and other promotional materials, and photographs.
File contains one graphite pencil drawing of a kneeling made nude. Drawing was created by Ron Harrison and donated by Chris Aucoin as an auction item for a Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [M.A.C. Leather] benefit event, where it was purchased by Don Murchy.
File contains administrative records for the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church (UMFCC), and materials relating to the Eastern Canadian District Conference, held October 11-13, 1996. Materials include conference schedules, minutes, evaluation forms, reports to the conference, and notes. File also includes general correspondence, financial records, UMFCC pamphlets, meeting agendas and minutes, operating procedures, and by-laws.
File contains administrative records for the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church, and materials relating to the Eastern Canadian District Conference. Materials include conference agendas, reports to the conference, and conference flyers. File also contains financial records, correspondence, notes, workshop materials, meeting minutes and agendas, and applications for district positions.
File contains administrative records for the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church, and materials relating to the Eastern Canadian District Conference, held September 23-25, 1994. Materials include a conference program, conference schedules, notes, promotional materials, one coordinator's report to the district conference, one women's secretariat report, one job description for a district coordinator and lay representative, lists of delegates, job applications, operating procedures and by-laws, agendas, minutes, and financial records.
File contains issues 2 and 3 of the United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church - Eastern Canadian District newsletter, published in March and June of 1997, respectively.
Subseries contains records created or collected by Safe Harbour MCC in connection with the Eastern Canadian District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Materials include administrative records, financial records, conference materials, job descriptions and applications, personnel records, reports, newsletters, notes, and correspondence.
File contains one copy of the essay Cisgender Privilege: On the privileges of performing normative gender by Evin Taylor, dated 2010, and the report Eligibility and readiness criteria for Sex Reassignment Surgery: Recommendations for Revision of the WPATH Standards of Care; file also contains conference program and notes for the 1st Annual Health Equity Forum, held on March 18, 2011.
File contains a pamphlet regarding AIDS resource materials available from the Halifax City Regional Library; a notice regarding a weekend workshop; a pamphlet from Archdiocese of Halifax; an article from AIDSline 1991, vol. 3, no 3; and two pamphlets regarding HIV/AIDS educational seminars.
File contains pamphlets and resource guides; correspondence between AIDS Nova Scotia and other AIDS organizations; briefs, reports, and recommendations from other community groups; lobbying materials; press releases; news clippings; funding proposals and guidelines; one AIDS adult case report form.
File contains materials related to the operations of EGALE (formerly Equality for Gays And Lesbians Everywhere), a Canada-wide LGBT advocacy organization, dated 1987-2001. Materials include copies of the InfoEgale newsletter, press releases and correspondence regarding Egale operations and initiatives, reference materials, and news clippings related to LGBT political activism and issues in Canada.
File contains one copy of the Spartacus Enterprises of Oregon catalogue, one copy of JT's Stockroom mail order catalogue, one copy of a retail price list of erotic accessories, and one copy of the 1993 Toronto Pink Pages directory of lesbian and gay businesses.
File contains essays on homosexuality and religion and related correspondence between Bob Fougere and Richard Beis. Essays include one copy of the essay God Dave Me a Gay Son by Thomas A. Nelson, one copy of Sex: Purpose and 'Natural Law' by Richard Beis, and one copy of Same Sex Marriage: What Exactly is the Problem? [unattributed].
File includes one scanned copy of the French-language article Pas facile d'etre bi, published in the October 2000 issue of Fuges; and one email featuring the full text of the essay My Bidentity by Michael Szymanski, sent to Bob Fougere on July 26th, 2001.
File contains one copy of the essay The Intersexed? by Jennifer L. Paty, dated April 6, 2005; one copy of the essay Why Don't You Tell Them I'm a Boy? Raising a Gender-Nonconforming Child by Florence Dillon; one photocopy of the article A Boy's Life by Hanna Rosin, published in the November, 2008 issue of The Atlantic; one glossary of LGBT terminology; one transcript of the sermon Celebrating the T in LGBTQ: One Family's Sacred Journey, presented by Joan WIley to the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto on January 21, 2007; one copy of the essay Darn Those Names and Pronouns by Mary Boenke, dated July, 2003; one copy of the article Metro Transition by Brendan Dunbar, originally published in July 20, 2006 issue of The Coast; Bob Fougere's correspondence regarding transgender activism, dated 2009-2010; eight business cards for Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church; one business card for Staci Montgomery, Employment Counsellor with LakeCity Employment Services Association; and notes.
File also contains correspondence from Bruce Walker to Robert Stead and Danny Chandler regarding Lloyd Simmon's death; an obituary; newspaper clippings about Bruce Walker and Lloyd Simmons; and a speech given by Bruce Walker at Acadia University. Bruce Walker was a lawyer and Lloyd Simmons was a school principal who faced controversy for living as an openly gay individual.
Series contains duplicate programs, flyers, and other promotional materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in series include flyers and event cards for the Halifax Fetish Ball, flyers for a speaking engagement and meet and greet with South African political activist Simon Nkoli, flyers and programs for the Awake The World HIV/AIDS awareness event, and programs and program inserts from Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather contests.
File contains three copies of the poster for the 2009 Fetish ball, held in Halifax on April 25, 2009, and three copies of the poster for the 2013 Fetish ball, held in Halifax on May 4, 2013.
File contains four flyers for fetish evenings held at Blue Moon Bistro in Halifax during April and May of 2007, and two copies of an information sheet outlining details for these events.
File contains materials relating to Bob Fougere's participation in the distribution of the First National Survey of Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in Canada in 1998. Materials include correspondence, one copy of the survey distribution kit, one copy of the media kit, and one copy of the distribution tracking form.
File contains two copies of a flyer advertising events in Halifax featuring Simon Nkoli, a gay South African political activist. Events include a talk held at Rumours bar, and the preceding meet and greet held on the same date at Veith House.
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.
Subseries contains duplicate issues of Gaezette, a publication which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It was published by a non-profit collective between 1984-1995, when it changed its name to Wayves. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives.
Gaezette : issue 3, 1988. Issue does not list publication date, but was published sometime after 1988-04-01. This issue is the first issue to be issued following the publication's redesign.
Series contains copies of Gaezette, a publication which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It was published by a non-profit collective between 1984-1995, when it changed its name to Wayves. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives.
File contains copies of Gaezette, a periodical which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives. Issues in this file were published between 1984-1985.
File contains copies of Gaezette, a periodical which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives. Issues in this file were published in 1986.
