Item is a portrait of Donald (Don) Higgins painted by Robert Doyle. Don Higgins (1943-1989) was an openly gay professor of political science and public administration with a keen interest in municipal government structures, education and city development and planning. Robert Doyle was an openly gay designer, costume design professor and painter. The portrait was painted from a photograph.
Item is a portrait of Paul Boulais painted by Nancy Unsworth in 2007 or 2008 from a photograph taken around 1996. Paul Boulais was an HIV+ gay man and was the first person to receive same-sex Canadian Pension Plan benefits after the death of his partner Grant MacNeil.
Item is a typescript and web copy of an article from the Advocate. The article is about gay rights activist Gerald Veldhoven calling for churches to allow same-sex marriages.
Item is a poster for "LBGTQ Rights in Canada" presentation at CBUSU Women's Centre on November 25, 2013. Panel guests include Gerard Veldhoven, Stevi Gerrior and Jesiah MacDonald.
Item is a clipping of a magazine article by Gerard Veldhoven titled "I Am What I Amherst." The article was published in the July 2009 issue of the magazine Wayves.
Item is the transcript of the speech present by Gerald Veldhoven at the LGBT Senior Group in Toronto on July 19, 2010, and PFLAG in Sackville, NB, on January 24, 2011.
Item consists of the article "Reflections in a Mirror Ball" written by Scott MacNeil for gayhalifax - for all things queer and published on February 2018.
File contains one tote bag produced by the Canadian Labour Congress. Tote bag is made of black fabric, and is printed with an inverted pink triangle with black text written into each side of the triangle reading "Solidarité—Pride—Fierté.
File contains one produced by the Ontario branch Canadian Employment and Immigration Union. Pin is a triangle with a pink border, with a green trillium design at the centre, surrounded by text that reads "SEICP—CEIU—ONTARIO".
File contains one pin produced for Halifax Pride 1988. Pin is printed with a background of light blue sky and darker blue waves, with an inverted pink triangle dipping into the waves, and small purple text reading "HFX. PRIDE 88".
File contains one pin produced by Iron Eagles Motorcycle Club. Pin has a white background with a picture of an eagle in the centre, with text that read "IRON EAGLES—MOTORCYCLE CLUB".
File contains one pin produced for Halifax Pride week 1991. Pin has a white background with a black line drawing of a person breaking out of a triangle in the centre. The border is printed with text that reads "PRIDE WEEK 1991—HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA".
File contains two lapel pins produced to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Affirm United, an LGBT advocacy group with the United Church. Pins are in the shape of a pink triangle overlapping a navy blue oval, outlined in gold. Text on pins reads "1982—1992".
File contains one pin with a white background and a black iron cross in the centre. Black text around the cross reads "IRON CROSS M.C.—1972-1992— MONTREAL/U.S.A.
File contains one pin produced for the Spearhead bear weekend, 1994, hosted by Spearhead leather and denim social club. Pin has a black background with a red spearhead and illustration of a bear in the centre, and red text along the bottom that reads "SPEARHEAD BEAR WEEKEND '94".
File contains one pin for Halifax Pride 1996. Pin has a white background with a border of pink and black triangles, and features two overlapping black and pink triangles in the centre, with text printed above and below that reads "Pride—96".
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