Collection MS-15-3 - Lynn Murphy collection

Lynn Murphy is a Halifax-based librarian and LGBTQ+ activist. She was born in Summerside, PEI, and raised on a potato farm in Clermont, PEI. She received a BA from Saint Dunstan's University and a BEd from UPEI before moving to Halifax in 1968, where she earned her MLIS from Dalhousie University. She has been employed in university, special and public libraries, as well as working as a freelance bibliographer. Murphy was a longstanding member of the Gay Alliance for Equality/Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GAE/GALA], serving on the Executive, the Management Board and the Civil Rights Committee. Since 2010, she has been a board member of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project [NSRAP], helping to found the Elderberries social group for LGBT seniors. She has also participated in planning Halifax Pride events and has been a member of the WildeBunch, the Atlantic History and Archives Network, the Making Waves Collective and the Sisters' Lightship Collective. In 2012 she was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for activism and in 2015 was the first recipient of NSRAP's Leighann Wichman Award for Lifetime Achievement.