HistoryFirsts

This page lists history-making events (with a Halifax focus) and when they happened.

Each item should be linked to the encyclopedia page for that event.

1882

OscarWilde visits Halifax (we'll figure out what this is a first of, later)

1971

January: TheeClub, the first of the GayBars, opens

1972

March : the Halifax Gay Alliance for Equality formed

GayLine formed

1973

August 19th: First march/demonstration, see PrideCelebrations

November 19th: GAE incorporated

1977

April: Halifax's own mini version of Stonewall, at the JuryRoom

first public protest - about CBC Radio's refusal to run notices. Intervention was on October 05, 1977

October 8-10: first AtlanticConference, "Atlantic Gay Conference For Lesbians and Gay Men"

1978

First Pride March, see PrideCelebrations. First gay play mounted: TheNightTheyRaidedTruxx by PaulLedoux at The Turret, June 28 - July 6

1979

July 1: PinkTriangleDay resolution proposed by RobinMetcalfe

1982

Beginning of the ChristianGayMovement

1984

MattHughes launches a challenge against Acadia University to secure same-sex spousal benefits from a Canadian university.

1988

May 5th: first AidsVigil

1990

GaeGala hires fulltime activist

1990

First feature-length movie with gay theme made in Nova Scotia, ThomFitzgerald's Movie Of The Week

1990

Act Up chapter for Halifax formed. First demonstration Dec 1st - marching with pickets and a donkey through the streets of Halifax to Province House.

1995

WilsonHodder & GrantMacNeil? file same sex spouse human rights complaints. Daily News article about the hearings, ca. 1998 Article mentions that JimBigney? is also in the middle of a lengthy legal challenge against federal agencies, and mentions DanielMacKay and NorvalCollins?.

2004

September 24th: First marriages in Nova Scotia. RossBoutilier and BrianMombourquette, BryanGarnettDoucette and RonGarnettDoucette, KimVance and SamMeehan?

2007

Halifax Chamber of Commerce publishes DougMelanson a Gay Businesses section in the directory

May 20, 2007

WayvesMagazine mentioned in the Halifax Daily News for the first time, in connection with the 2007-05 Murders. Wayves was contacted by The Chronicle-Herald, The Daily News,The Globe & Mail, CBC, CTV, Global, and Xtra.

This page is part of the HistoryProject. Thanks to JohnYogis? for the idea and the initial research on legal firsts.