Archives Catalogue

Photographs of the women's centre organizers 1993

MS-15-2.2019-062, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1993

File contains 2 photographs of a group of individuals who tried to begin a Women's Center in Halifax. See also Box 3, Folder 5 for a related newspaper clipping.

Clipping of a photograph of individuals in front of the Dalhousie Women's Centre

MS-15-2.2019-062, Box 3, Folder 5
File
1993

Part of Anita Martinez fonds

File contains one newspaper clipping from March 24, 1993 from Dalhousie News of a photograph of the first Women's Centre at Dalhousie University.

Anne Bishop fonds

MS-15-5
Fonds
[198-?] - 1998

Fonds includes materials created by, collected or about Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS], including a collection of pins.

Bishop, Anne Charlotte

Human Rights petitions, briefs regarding LGBT individuals in Manitoba

MS-15-5, Box 2, Folder 6
File
1987

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains materials such as correspondence, notices, and briefs from organizations fighting for equal rights and protection under the human rights code in Manitoba.

New Brunswick Coalition for Human Rights Reform briefs, newsletters

MS-15-5, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1988 - 1990

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains issues of the New Brunswick Coalition for Human Rights reform newsletters, correspondence, a copy of the New Brunswick Human Rights Code, and a brief from the New Brunswick Coalition for Human Rights to the Government of New Brunswick.

Pamphlet on child abuse

MS-15-5, Box 4, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
1989 - 1995

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

"Now you know by A,B,C's ... tell me what you think of me?

MS-15-5, Box 4, Folder 16, Item 3
Item
December 14, 1994

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is a document published by the Gay and Lesbian Community and the Edmonton Police Service Liaison Committee.

Document from Connections '95 titled "Gay and Lesbian Adolescents"

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 4, Folder 16, Item 4
Item
March 9, 1995

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

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.

Newspaper articles regarding child abuse

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 4, Folder 16, Item 5
Item
1989 - 1994

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

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.

Anne Bishop keynote speech, Maine Gay Lesbian Symposium

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Tape 10
File
1992

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains audio recording of Anne's Bishop's keynote speech delivered at the 1992 Maine Gay and Lesbian Symposium.

Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] demonstration at Province House, April 2, 1989

MS-15-5, Box 7, Items 8-9
Item
1989

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is video footage of a demonstration held by Lesbian Gay Rights Nova Scotia at Province House on April 2, 1989.

The Secret Furies performance

MS-15-5, Box 6, Tape 4
File
1990

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at the Halifax launch of the film The Burning Times on November 3, 1990. Songs on the recording performed prior to the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; River of Birds ; Witch's Song. Songs performed after the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Under the Full Moon ; Burning Times ; Earth Air Fire Water Return.

The Secret Furies performances

MS-15-5, Box 6, Tape 8
File
1991

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at Truro Women's and Children's Dance on October 25, 1991. Songs performed are You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; December 6 : Russian Learning Lullaby ; Living Flame ; Hippopotamus Song ; Look to the Women ; Women All Around the World. Cassette also features a recording of the song Burning Times from a performance at the Stepping Stone Benefit on October 30, 1991. Cassette also includes recordings with no specified performance date. These recordings are of the songs We All Come From the Mother ; Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Women All Around the World.

TightRope administrative records, promotional materials, and photographs

Subseries
1992-2002

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

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.

TightRope administrative and financial records ; event flyers and calendars ; correspondence

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1992-2002

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

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

TightRope

TightRope logo ; photographs from meet-up on McNab's Island

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1999

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one TightRope logo and five printouts of photographs from a TightRope meet-up on McNab's Island in Halifax in 1999.

Leather event cards, brochures, and programs

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 1, Folder 13
File
2000-2003

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains event cards and brochures for leather contests and meet-ups in Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnatti, Ohio; and one program for the 2002 International Mr. Leather contest, held in Chicago from May 23-27, 2002.

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] programs

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 1, Folder 14
File
2001-2002

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains programs for the 2002 and 2003 Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] competitions, held in Halifax and Moncton respectively.

Leather website printouts ; Men of Pumpjack 2002 calendar

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 1, Folder 15
File
2001-2002

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains five pages of printouts from the website LeatherRubberMaster.com featuring black and white illustrations and photos of leather club activities, some of which are pornographic in nature; and one copy of the 2002 Men of Pumpjack calendar, produced by the Pumpjack pub in Vancouver, British Columbia.

NSGEU 15 year member pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
[199-?]

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin commemorating Al Stewart's fifteen year anniversary as a member of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union. Pin is a bronze-coloured circle, printed with text that reads "N.S.G.E.U.—15 Year Member".

Halifax Pride week 1991 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 22
Item
1991

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

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".

Iron Cross Motor Club 1972-1992 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 25
Item
1992

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

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.

For your information – We are the men who took our shirts off last Saturday night

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 2, Folder 6
File
July, 1991

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

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.

GayLine annual and monthly reports 1981-1988

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1981 - 1988

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains copies of monthly and annual reports for GayLine between 1981 and 1988.

GayLine annual report 1990

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 4, Folder 5
File
1990

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains one copy of the 1990 GayLine annual report.

GayLine annual report 1992

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1992

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains one copy of the 1992 GayLine annual report.

GayLine annual report 1993

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1993

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains one copy of the 1993 GayLine annual report.

Correspondence regarding Maritime Tel and Tel account, meeting agenda, minutes, financial report, and personnel lists

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1995

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

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.

Video footage of Halifax Pride 1989

MS-15-5, Box 7, Items 1-2
File
1989

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

File contains one DVD and one VHS tape containing video footage from the Halifax Pride March 1988.

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] financial records and meeting minutes

Subseries
2002 - 2003, 2005, 2009

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

Sub-series contains financial statements [2002-2003, 2005, 2009]; meeting minutes [2003-2005]; and registration of the name Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather]

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] finances for H.M.C.S. Leather

MS-15-4.2019-067, Box 1, Folder 8
File
2005

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains the revenues and expenses for H.M.C.S. Leather contest in 2005.

H.M.C.S. Leather poster

MS-15-4.2019-067, OS Box 12, Folder 19
File
2005

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains four posters for H.M.C.S. Leather 2005, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] 2005 event logos

MS-15-4.2019-067, Box 1, Folder 7
File
2005

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains logo designs for the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] 2005 contest and drafts of poster prints.

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] XI poster

MS-15-4.2019-067, OS Box 12, Folder 23
File
2009

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains three posters for Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] XI 2009, in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Mr. Menz sunday brunch poster

MS-15-4.2019-067, OS Box 12, Folder 18
File
2005 - 2008

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains one poster for the Mr. Menz Sunday Brunch at Menz Bar in support of Menz Bar attending the Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contest in Saint John, NB. Event took place between 2005 and 2008.

Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contest plan

MS-15-4.2019-062, Box 1, Folder 20
File
2005

Part of Nathaniel Smith fonds

File contains one spreadsheet containing the contest project plan as well as documents for renewing the certificate of a business name for New Brunswick.

Posters for Lesbian and gay pride week 1988 and Images of lesbian sexuality events

MS-15-3.2019-065, OS Box 19, Folder 4
File
1988, 1991

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

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.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Acetate negatives for New Years party, Black magic ball men's dance / Girlz just wanna have fun women's dance, and The birthday bash events

MS-15-3.2019-065, OS Folder 7
File
1985, 1993

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains acetate negatives of posters for events held at Rumours bar. File includes one negative for the New Years party, held 1985-12-31; one negative for the Black magic ball men's dance / Girlz just wanna have fun women's dance, held on 1993-08-13; and one negative for The birthday bash, held in 1993-11-20.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Lesbian and Gay Pride 1990 banner

MS-15-3.2019-065, OS Box 14, Folder 8
File
1990

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains one white banner produced 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" and two interlocking venus symbols painted in overlapping black and pink text.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Human Rights Act banner

MS-15-3.2019-062, OS Box 15, Folder 2
File
[199-?]

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains one hand-painted banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA). Banner is made from a brown piece of fabric and a white piece of fabric sewn together, and painted with black text that reads "Every person is free & equal in dignity & rights — NS Human Rights Act".

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

HIV/AIDS awareness, safe-sex, and anti-discrimination posters

MS-15-3.2019-065, OS Folder 4
File
[1984?]-[1995?]

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains three posters encouraging safe-sex as HIV/AIDS prevention; one poster admonishing the Reagan administration, the Centre for Disease Control, and the Vatican for their lack of action in preventing the AIDS epidemic; and one poster featuring the European Parliament's resolution on sexual discrimination in the workplace.

Reports and articles regarding gay rights

MS-15-13.2020-007, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1987 - 1989

Part of Kevin Crombie fonds

File contains a notice of a meeting from Coalition for Human Rights Reform New Brunswick 1988 and several documents titled "Strategy for Gay Rights", "AIDS, Human Rights and the Revival of Lesbian/Gay Politics in the Maritimes" by Anne Bishop, 1989, "Rights Now" Strategy for Gay and Lesbian Rights", a paper on discrimination against Gay and Lesbians, and a paper titled "Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in Nova Scotia". File also contains LGRNS missions statement.

Documents regarding equal spousal benefits and employee benefits for LGBT individuals and a copy of the Human Rights Code

MS-15-13.2020-007, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1991 - 1995

Part of Kevin Crombie fonds

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.

Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] meeting minutes

MS-15-13.2020-007 Box 1, Folder 11
File
1987 - 1990

Part of Kevin Crombie fonds

File contains meeting minutes from Lesbian Gay Rights Nova Scotia (LGRNS) dating from 1987 - 1990. File also contains committee member roles and contact information.