File contains six pamphlets regarding recreation drug use, nd one flyer of a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in the Gay and Lesbian Alliance community centre.
Collection contains records collected by Lynn Murphy through her association with the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) of Nova Scotia, and her participation in organizing Halifax Pride marches, parades and other LGBT initiatives. Records include posters, banners and flags created or collected by GALA; posters promoting LGBT-related events in Halifax and elsewhere; posters for LGBT films; posters encouraging safe-sex practices and political activism; and Pride Guide mockups from 1996 and 1998.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
File contains gay help line training session materials, including recommended readings and community resources, training schedules, one help line training manual, and one booklet of materials relating to crisis intervention.
File contains two information sheets regarding the operations of the Gay Alliance for Equality (GAE) and its association with the GayLine, one pamphlet regarding the Gay and Lesbian Association's funding issues, and one drop-in nite event pamphlet.
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.
Series contains pins and other apparel produced for LGBT events such as Halifax pride, or featuring pro-LGBT messages. Items in this series were collected and worn by members of Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS].
Collection contains duplicate materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in collection include posters; programs, flyers, and promotional materials; pamphlets and outreach materials; and wearable ephemera including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia. Materials in series relate to Halifax Pride and other pride celebrations, political demonstrations, Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] operations and events, Halifax Fetish Ball and Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather events, Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] meetings and operations, events held at Rumours bar, LGBT films, and other LGBT causes and events.
Series contains duplicates of wearable ephemera from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in series including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia related to or worn during Halifax Pride parades, political demonstrations organized by Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] and other groups, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [M.A.C. Leather] contests, and other LGBT causes and events.
Fonds consists of photographs taken by Anita Martinez at pride events and women's events in Nova Scotia between 1987 - 1999. There are also clippings, event programs, brochures, posters and promotional materials related to various women's and pride events.
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 posters, banners and flags created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for various events. Series contains one subseries of posters (and negatives) for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by GALA, and another subseries of banners and flags used during Pride marches, demonstrations, and GALA meetings.
Series contains paper posters and acetate negatives of posters for meetings, lectures, Pride events, parties, stage shows and dances, many of them held at Rumours, a Halifax bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance [GALA].
File contains one copy of a resource list of feminist services and organizations in Halifax, co-sponsored by A Women's Place and the Halifax City Regional Library.
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 a memo regarding a Gay Alliance for Equality billeting proposal for out of town visitors. Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette first met through the use of this billetting service.
File contains three issues of the Wimmin's Words newsletter published in Halifax between November 1982 to February 1983. This file contains two copies of the November 1982 issue.
File contains one copy each of the 1983 and 1993 guidelines for GayLine volunteers. File also includes three copies of a 1993 pamphlet advertising the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Line's services.
File contains photographs of Juanita Pooley and her partner, Clairmarie Haley, dated 1984. Film also contains one undated news clipping about a legal dispute over unpaid taxes between the City of Halifax and the gay and lesbian nightclub Rumours, as well as an obituary for Carolyn Jean Hayes.
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.
File contains a list of all members of the executive of the Gay Alliance for Equality [GAE] from 1985-1988, including positions and approximate terms. File also contains a first draft of Christians Assembled to Respond to AIDS (CARAS) "Brief to the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS".
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.
Item is a banner created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA), then called the Gay Alliance for Equality, for an unknown event in 1985. The banner is white fabric illustrated in the style of a Gaezette article, featuring a person standing in front of a windmill, with the headline "Send a Dyke to Holland."
File contains one pamphlet for the Dignity Canada Lesbian and Gay Catholic Association and accompanying correspondence from the Dartmouth chapter of the organization.
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.
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