File contains one pamphlet with information on the Community Development Fund application process for 2005, one copy of the pamphlet Sexual diversity in the workplace; one copy of the traditional gender model; one copy of Medical Procedures Related to Transgender Health as an MSI Benefit for Nova Scotians; one copy of draft 13 of Understanding Transsexuality: A Workshop; one packet of information regarding transgender youth and their involvement with the Youth Project; budgets for May 2012; one copy of the Trans Pride Canada: Style Guide; correspondence 2010-2012; news clippings dated 2011; notes; and educational materials relating to transgender health.
File contains materials related to the Nova Scotia Persons With AIDS Coalition's Women and AIDS project. Materials include correspondence, one pamphlet, meeting minutes, and information about a women's retreat held in Halifax from September 16-18th, 1994.
File contains materials related to the life and passing of Wilson Hodder. Hodder was a prominent LGBT activist in Nova Scotia, who successfully petitioned for spousal survivors benefits for same-sex couples under the Canada Pension Plan following the passing of his partner, Terry Martin.
File contains 30 colour photographs taken by Hodder of the 1998 Ottawa Pride parade, three photographs of Hodder and friends, correspondence between Hodder and Mike Sangster, two copies of the program from Hodder's celebration of life, and two program inserts.
File contains clippings, notes, web print-outs, illustrations, article drafts, advertisement mock-ups, sample logos, photos printed on office paper, correspondence, and contact lists collected for the purpose of creating content for Wayves Magazine.
File contains AIDS Nova Scotia volunteer training materials, including training session schedules, agendas and minutes, documents outlining volunteer roles, application forms, worksheets and training exercises, reference materials for trainers and volunteers, feedback surveys, notes, and correspondence.
File contains pamphlets; referral cards, volunteer applications and accompanying correspondence; and one copy of the August 1983 newsletter for the Vancouver Gay Community Centre. File also contains one call log template and notes.
Series contains materials related to speaking engagements at Acadia University in Wolfville and Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Materials include correspondence; speaking notes; presentation slides; and course syllabi.
File contains planning materials and correspondence related to the Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010. Materials include one program for the event, typed speaker's notes, handwritten planning notes, and correspondence. Materials in this file also relate to the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, which hosted the event.
File contains notices and flyers for events held by the TightRope Leather Brotherhood, as well as newsletters, correspondence, and event notices from other leather organizations. Materials include copies of the newsletters Smoke Signals, produced by Poconowarriors in Pennsylvania, and The Brand, produced by the Chicago Hellfire Club; correspondence, pamphlets, and registration forms from Spearhead Leather/Denim Social club in Toronto; event notices and registration forms from East Coast Bears, based in Fredricton; correspondence from the Ottawa Knights; one registration form for the Toone Towne event held by Firedancers Texas ; and notices for TightRope events held between May and August, 1999.
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.
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
File contains five pages of notes and correspondence related to Brian Mombourquette's facilitation of The Queer Bible: A Workshop on Homosexuality and the Bible.
File contains two copies of a pamphlet containing information about the visual artist Steve Walker, whose work features romantic images of gay men; one poster featuring images of Walker's art; and one page of accompanying correspondence.
File contains materials related to the activities of the AIDS Nova Scotia speakers bureau. Includes speakers bureau updates, agendas and minutes, internal reports, pamphlets, reference and training materials for speakers, memos, and correspondence.
File contains four sexual health surveys distributed by AIDS Nova Scotia (then Metro Area Committee on AIDS), related notes and correspondence, and one report detailing the results of a sexual health survey completed in Quebec.
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.
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 three pages of correspondence from the Rural Gay Men's Group, a correspondence and friendship oriented group based in Port Hardy, British Columbia, and one flyer advertising LYNX, a lesbian correspondence club based in Ottawa.
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.
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 materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's HIV/AIDS healthcare advocacy efforts, including its involvement with the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project and the Nova Scotia Strategy for AIDS. Materials include one copy of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Survey Anonymous Questionnaire; one agenda for the meeting of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Advisory Committee, held July 5, 2005; resources containing information on HIV/AIDS and youth LGBT health; one copy of Nova Scotia's Strategy on HIV/AIDS; correspondence dated 2002-2005; one copy of the agenda for a meeting on the role of community organizations in Nova Scotia's HIV/AIDS strategy, held October 24, 2002; notes from the Annual Direction-Setting Meeting for the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS, held October 29 to November 1, 2000; background information on the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia; and one copy of the report Planning Steps in Response to Nova Scotia's Framework for Action on HIV/AIDS, prepare for the Nova Scotia Framework for Action on HIV/AIDS Steering Committee in April, 2002.
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.
Subseries contains materials collected for reference and educational use by GayLine volunteers. Subjects covered include 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, newsletters, essays, and correspondence.
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 materials relating to the closure of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. This includes correspondence dated 2012-2013; inventory lists documenting the church's materials as of the time of its closure in 2011; lists of members; minutes from the annual congregational meeting held August 31, 2011; pamphets; programs; and notes.
Series includes photographs and textual materials related to gay pride marches and events in Nova Scotia as well as documentation from the 1987 March on Washington.
File contains one photograph of Al Stewart taken at City Cycle motor shop, which he operated, one photograph of Mike Sangster's head superimposed onto a muscular man's body, and personal correspondence between Al and Mike and their friends.
File contains correspondence regarding the founding and operations of a Halifax chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays [PFLAG], as well as notes, one essay regarding parents of LBTQ+ children, and clippings of letters to the editor regarding spousal benefits for same-sex partners.
File contains correspondence, pamphlets, and newsletters from Sparrow, a support community for gay and lesbian Christians. File also contains one copy of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Directory of Congregations and Clergy.
File contains background information on the Ottawa Police Lesbian and Gay Liaison Committee action plan pilot project, and changes to policing standards that resulted in part from suggestions made by the Committee to the Ottawa Police Services Board.
File contains materials related to the Order of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing of Ross Boutilier and the Treasury Board regarding same-sex marriage benefits. Materials include correspondence, notes, and draft versions of the order.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's response to Nova Scotia's Strategy on HIV/AIDS and interactions with the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission on AIDS. Materials include meeting notes and agendas, correspondence, draft proposals, and a copy of the Nova Scotia Strategy on HIV/AIDS.
File contains one manuscript of The Nova Scotia Sex Now Survey 2005: Continuity, Change and HIV/AIDS and accompanying correspondence between Bob Fougere and Cliff Arnold, the Gay Men's Health Coordinator for the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia.
File contains materials relating to the advocacy activities of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project in relation to sexual reassignment surgery. File contains pamphlets mock-ups, Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting agendas, communications plans, correspondence, news clippings, memos, selections from the MSI Physicians manual, report drafts, PowerPoint Slides, and educational resources.
Series contains materials documenting the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project administrative activities, research and advocacy work. Records pertain to NSRAP's advocacy work for transgender Nova Scotians, participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and research and advocacy work related to gay men's health and HIV/AIDS. Record types include meeting minutes and agendas, job postings, reports, reference and research materials, planning materials, workshop and lobbying materials, correspondence, and notes.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's participation in various research projects. Materials include one copy of survey questions for a 2005 study on gender and aggression conducted by Dr. Nancy Bartlett of Mount Saint Vincent University and associated correspondence; one invitation to participate in a study on nursing care for lesbians during childbirth, conducted by Lisa Goldberg of Dalhousie University, associated correspondence, and 1 copy of the project's research proposal; 1 package of information regarding a study on homophobia and heterosexism in undergraduate medical education, conducted by Dr. Frank Blye of Dalhousie University, and associated correspondence.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's application for funding from the Nova Scotia Law Foundation Millennium Projects fund, including correspondence between Bob Fougere and Michael MacDonald. Materials also include one copy of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's completed application, together with letters of support from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, AIDS Coalition Nova Scotia, valleyPRIDE Social Club, Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project, and the Homosexual Agenda.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 materials related to the Men Who Have Sex With Men working group, including project proposals, meeting minutes, correspondence and letters of support, budgets and financial documents, notes, job descriptions, reports from similar projects in the UK and Australia, and related research/publications.
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.
