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.
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 facsimile of the Memorandum of Association of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project society sent May 31, 2005; one pamphlet for the LGB Youth Project; one invoice for the purchase and set-up of a new server; one copy of the April/May 2005 issue of Young Gay America; 1 clipping from the Chronicle Herald dated June 29, 2005; one promotional flyer for various Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project events over the summer of 2005; meeting minutes and agendas from May, 2005; one copy of terms of reference for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Youth Board; one flyer for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project's Queer Prom '05; one copy of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Policy and Procedure Manual, approved June 2004.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's transgender advocacy efforts. Materials include one copy of a pamphlet entitled Hiding its Face: Homophobia; one copy of the November 2005 issue of Wayves; preparatory notes for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project and LGBTI Initiative meeting on June 14, 2006; one copy of Boys Will Be Girls: Reasons to Provide MSI Coverage for Sexual Reassignment Surgery, published by the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project on June 14, 2004; and one copy of the May 26, 2003 issue of Maclean's magazine.
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 1994.
