File contains materials relating to 10th anniversary of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church in 2001. Materials include planning notes; memos; one program for Safe Harbour church service, held January 27, 2002; one printed copy of the web article Halifax church's mission: offer a safe place for gays by Alan McAvoy, published November 6, 2001; news clipping from the Daily News and the Chronicle Herald relating to the anniversary; one copy of the Safe Harbour press list; Eastlink Community Television coverage application forms; correspondence; three copies of a press release entitled Celebrating Our First Decade of Ministry, published October 16, 2001; and two advertisements for Singing God's Praises? An Evening with Rev. Delores Barry.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project speaking engagements at Acadia University. Materials include cue cards and speaking notes, two copies of the syllabus for Sociology 380X1 Lesbian and Gay Studies from the Winter 2004 and Winter 2006 semesters, related correspondence dated 2007, and notes.
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.
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.
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.
File contains draft articles and writing submissions, notes, correspondence, and graphic material used in the production of the Wayves literary supplement Punaqun.
Fonds contains materials collected by LGBTQ+ activist Bob Fougere pertaining to his activism in Halifax. Records in fonds document Fougere's work as coordinator of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project [NSRAP], including NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and its health care advocacy work on behalf of transgender Nova Scotians. Materials also document Fougere's roles as board member at Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, and facilitator the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project support group. Materials in fonds include correspondence, pamphlets, essays, studies, clippings, reports, meeting minutes, conference materials, and ephemera.
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.
File contains one draft of the proposed credentialling process process for the Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee and associated correspondence. File also includes newsletters, notes, and correspondence from the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
File contains materials relating to the decision to close Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include financial reports from 2010-2011; letters of interest from other community groups dated 2011; correspondence dated 2011; news clippings dated 2011; Board of Directors meeting minutes dated 2011; 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.
File contains materials relating to both provincial and federal supreme court rulings relating to spousal benefits for same-sex couples. Materials include one report from Nova Scotia Member of Parliament Alexa McDonough dated May, 1998 regarding declining living standards and accompanying correspondence; clippings from the Cape Breton Post; correspondence; and one oversized meeting agenda and guidelines.
File also contains articles of association for the Gay Alliance for Equality and a letter to Movement for Citizens Voice and Action enquiring about the possibility of GAE becoming a member agency.
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 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 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 materials documenting NSRAP's research and support work related to HIV/AIDS, including the Gay Men's Health Research Project, and NSRAPS's response to Nova Scotia's Strategy for HIV/AIDS. Materials in subseries include Gay Men's Health Research Project planning and research materials, HIV/AIDS related government policy documents, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, and notes.
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.
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.
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 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.
File contains committee records for Halifax Pride 1997. Materials include Pride schedules, clippings featuring stories about the parade and plans for television advertisements during Pride Week, Pride logo mock-ups, notes, correspondence, agendas, contact lists, advertisements, and correspondence.
File contains committee record for Halifax Pride 1998. Materials include financial records, notes, correspondence, schedules and other planning materials, invoices, logo mock-ups, advertisements, and advertisement submission forms.
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.
File contains materials relating to HIV/AIDS activism in Nova Scotia. Materials include copies of The Nova Scotia AIDS Survey: An Invitation Draft Report, published January, 2006. File also contains one copy of the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia Evaluation 2005: Community Partners Interview Questions, as well as correspondence, notes, and the AIDS Community Action Program Regional Funding application form and guidelines.
Fonds contains materials produced by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] as part of their lobbying efforts to gain human rights protections for members of Nova Scotia's LGBTQ+ community, including correspondence, briefs, presentations, and notes. Fonds also contains correspondence, notes, and clippings regarding the establishment and operations of the Halifax chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG].
File contains materials relating to the Halifax Rainbow Health Project's involvement with the Joint Advisory Committee for Improving Access to Primary Care for GLBTI People In Capital Health. Materials include a job posting for the Transition Coordinator for the GLBTI Initiative, dated 2004; two draft copies of the agenda for the meeting of the Advisory Group for Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health, held May 31, 2004; one draft copy of terms of reference for the Advisory Group for Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health; notes; correspondence dated 2004; and one draft copy of a press release for the Primary Care Project.
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.
Series contains materials related to the operations of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project, a community support group founded in Halifax in 1993. The Youth Project is a community space that provides free counselling, leadership opportunities, and other supports for members of the LGBTQ+ community under the age of 25. Materials include retreat planning materials, budgets, meeting notes, educational resources, reports, policies and procedures documents, correspondence, and clippings.
File contains two copies of the information sheet for the 2001 Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project winter retreat, one year-end financial report, correspondence, and notes.
File contains materials relating to the Halifax Rainbow Action Project. Materials include letters of intent from Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, AIDS Coalition Nova Scotia, and Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project; one full copy and two partial copies of amendments to the Halifax Rainbow Health Project partnership agreement with the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; one draft copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Inclusion Program outline; correspondence dated 2004-2005; one Halifax Rainbow Health Project budget dated March 31, 2004; two copies of a Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting agenda dated March 30, 2004; notes; and one information packet for the 2004 Many Faces Diverse Voices conference, put on by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement in various healthcare initiatives, including the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project. Materials include one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project's report Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community; one blank copy of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Survey Anonymous Questionnaire for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS; correspondence regarding Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and Spiritual Care and AIDS project dated 2005; objectives for the Improving Access to Care 2005 project report; three copies of the report Health and Wellness in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Two-Spirit Communities, published April, 2005 by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; one speaker information for Bob Fougere's participation in the Momentum 2005 health conference; three copies of training notes for the workshop "An Introduction to the Rainbow Community", held October 11, 2005; one map of Capital Health districts; and notes.
File contains one business card for Bob Fougere; three different sets of definitions of LGBTQ terminology; presentation notes; and correspondence between Bob Fougere and Merle Veinot regarding deaths resulting from homophobia, dated May 30th, 2003.
File contains administrative records relating to the operations of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include invitation and program from the wedding of Norma Christine Cameron and Margot Whynot on February 17, 2001; meeting minutes and agendas dated 2010-2011; financial report and budgets dated 2010-2011; correspondence dated 2011; and 1 copy Board of Directors Training Manual for Churches Under 75.
File contains materials related to Bob Fougere's speaking engagement for BUS4407: Managing Diversity, Gender, and Other Issues on November 23, 2005. Materials include one copy of the syllabus for BUS4407, related correspondence, and notes.
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 one brochure for International Women's Day 1991, various newspaper clippings about Take Back the Night March, opening of a women's centre, and letters to the editor.
File contains planning materials for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's Big Gay Wedding Anniversary Gala Dinner, held on September 24th, 2005. Materials include one event program, one list of silent auction donors, one business cards for silent auction donors, correspondence regarding event planning, ticket invoices, and notes.
File contains one letter from Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Halifax, thanking the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project for a donation; one letter from the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project to Tom Michael of Video Difference requesting donations for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's 2006 fundraising gala; one letter from Derrick Martin detailing his donation to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project annual gala, and accompanying business cards.
File contains one copy of The Coast's 2006 Pride Guide; one full page from the Opinions section of the Chronicle Herald, dated February 11, 2006; one full page from the News section of the Chronicle Herald, dated March 3, 2006; one copy of the April, 2006 issue of Wayves; one full page from the News section of the Chronicle Herald, dated April 30, 2006; Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project general correspondence; and notes.
File contains correspondence between the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project and the Metropolitan Immigrant Settlement Association, inviting the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project to participate in the 2006 Multicultural Health Fair. File also contains notes, one Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project pamphlet, and one pamphlet for the Enhancing Resiliency in Adults in Response to the Impacts of Childhood Abuse presentation, put on by The Gatehouse Adult Support Network.
