2017-07-17 LookingBackAtQueerHalifax
=Looking Back At Queer Halifax= First done during Pride 2016, QueerActs hosted some of our community's . . . Nearing intro - moved back to Halifax in '94 - 'GayLine' - forming [[AtlanticTransgender|a trans support . . .
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2023-04-16 Turret Storytelling
=2023-04-16 Turret Storytelling= On 2023-04-16, at the regular ElderBerries Second Sunday Salon (except, . . . CBC Demonstration]] about not carrying the GayLine Public Service Announcement with Erick. ThackeraysRestaurant . . . Search Committee * 0:53:04.1 Dan talks about the GayLine * 0:56:38.7 Robin: a story about being a VIA . . .
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BarendKamperman
==1. A Post War Sendoff== https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/BarendKamperman/1956_Rotterdam.jpg My family's past . . . got involved with the G.A.E. Volunteering on the Gayline, the Gaezette newspaper and even on GAE's Board.This . . .
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BeforeTheParade index
This is an index of [[BeforeTheParade|Before The Parade]], RebeccaRose's book about activism and the . . . (see Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia) || || ||[[GayLine|Gayline]] ||6, 29, 41-42, 50, 52-53, 55-58, . . . (photo), 138, 169, [[http://gay.hfxns.org?search=GayLine H•R•E]] || ||[[RandGaynor|Gaynor, Rand]] ||101, . . .
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BernadineLaPointe
=Bernadine LaPointe= ===2019-11-13=== Hi Dan, A thought crossed my mind... when you asked if I would . . . on coming out, acceptance 00:15 * I called the GayLine…' JimBarnaby - 'he was so sweet' - lovely thoughts . . .
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BryanGarnettDoucette
=Bryan Garnett-Doucette= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/RonGarnettDoucette/2005_Bridge1.jpg Ron and Bryan . . . he met his partner Ron. He volunteered on the GayLine for 20 years. He was involved in one of the . . .
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DanielMacKay
=Daniel MacKay= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/DanielMacKay/2018-02-13.jpg 2018-02 I was born in the early . . . there's a message here) BluenoseBears, GaeGala, GayLine, MacLeather, and SafeHarbourChurch, OverThirtiesGroup... . . .
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DarlWood
One of the voices in BeforeTheParade: Joined the military in 1975 and was discharged for having a relationship . . . with a woman in 1978. GaeGala board member and GayLine volunteer. Spoke out publicly about [[ThePurge|the . . .
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GaeGala
==GAE & GALA== ==Gay Alliance for Equality & Gay And Lesbian Alliance== This page documents the history . . . also funded the first 20 or so years of the GayLine. ; 1972-06-04 : Founded, says the [[https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/GaeGala/1972-11_Newsletter.pdf . . . "One of the first things we did was set up the GayLine" ; 1973-03-01 (ca) : [[https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/GaeGala/1973-03_Newsletter.pdf . . . Vol. 1 # 1: March 1973 Newsletter]] Contents: GayLine, a rant about people not attending the bars, . . . at Dalhousie; three people trained for the GayLine; meetings at the UniversalistUnitarianChurch; . . .
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GaryWest
=Gary Garfield West, 1961 - 1993-03-27= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/GaryWest/Herself.jpg as "Ivanna" in . . . D23}} ; 1981-1982 : Gary was the director of the GayLine -- the Annual Report was written by him. This . . .
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GayLine
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/GayLine/1988_ad.jpg 1988 The Halifax Gayline opened in 1972 and ceased operations . . . and money for the phone line. The hours of the Gayline were for the most part 7:30 to 10:00pm Thursday, . . . changed to The Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Line. The Gayline moved around! Here's some timelines: ; 1972 . . . fonds]]}} https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/GayLine/Call_card.jpg We filled out a card like this . . . crank calls. DanielMacKay writes: I was with the Gayline for about 10 years, from the mid-eighties until . . .
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HistoryFirsts
This page lists history-making events (with a Halifax focus) and when they happened. Each item should . . . Alliance for Equality]] was established : GayLine formed ; 1972-10-24 : The UniversalistUnitarianChurch . . .
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HistoryPeople
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/HistoryPeople_cartoon.jpg Here is a list of early activists in Halifax - seriously . . . Founder * NilsClausson: GaeGala founding board, GayLine * NorvalCollins: WayvesMagazine, PrideCelebrations . . . GaeGala founding board, BillettingService, GayLine * PatDingle: GaeGala * BrianDoat: DJ at TheeKlub . . . * AnneFulton†: GaeGala founding board. GayLine * BryanGarnettDoucette: GayLine, GaeGala, Youth . . . founding board * RonGarnettDoucette: GaeGala, GayLine, PFLAG, HistoryProject * EmeraldGibson: GAE/ . . .
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HistoryProject
The goal of the History Project is to create an encyclopedia page for every person, place, thing, and . . . * DragQueens * GayBars * GaeGala * GayHangouts * GayLine * HistoryFirsts: what groundbreaking firsts . . .
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JimBarnaby
=Jim Barnaby= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/JimBarnaby/undated2.jpg Undated 1944-09-22 - 2009-10-08 Jim . . . his life, including doing support work for the GayLine, assisting students at the School for the Blind, . . .
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JimDeYoung
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/JimDeYoung/1982_ca.jpg Circa 1982 =Jim DeYoung= 1947-03-30 - 2014-07-08 Biography . . . Other businesses there: AlternateBookShop, GayLine, [33:50]. * NewGardenRestaurant mentioned as . . . they couldn't do fundraising the way we did." * GayLine operations [16:20] * Relations with the police . . .
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JimDeYoung fonds
This is a description of one of the fonds in the RainbowSeniorsArchive. Donor: JimDeYoung via DanielMacKay . . . letter from Newsletter committee * 1974-04-23 GayLine dismissal letter from JohnMarr to JimDeyoung . . . Miss Gay Halifax Pageant ticket * 1982-09-25 GayLine report * 1981-10-21 AGM notice including a . . . * 1981-02-15 Games Cabaret and Buffet programme GayLine * training materials * a bunch of Jim's 1982 . . .
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JuryRoom
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/JuryRoom/1977-04_AlKeith.png Owner Al Keith In the 1970s, The Jury Room, a . . . also mentions BobStout, former director of the GayLine. ---- This page is part of the HistoryProject. . . .
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LesbianCanadaLesbienne
In the 1977-04 issue of TheVoice: "The Newsletter of the National Lesbian Movement co-ordinated by [[APPLE]] . . . - using [[GaeGala|GAE]]'s address and the GayLine phone number. DebTrask says, 2012-08-07, "I . . .
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MauraDonovan
Creator of the YouthProject in 1993: “It was a tough time to be gay or lesbian or bisexual in Nova Scotia . . . then" It was her time volunteering at Halifax’s GayLine that motivated Maura Donovan to start the LGBTQ . . .
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MikeSangster
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/MikeSangster/2013-07-31.jpg July 31, 2013 =Mike Sangster= 1951-06-03 - 2022-07-17 . . . a steadfast boardmember. He was active with the GayLine in the ‘80s and ‘90s. In the mid 1990s, a bunch . . .
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NancyBrister
=Nancy Brister= One of the few women who frequented the first gay bar in the [[GreenLantern|Green Lantern . . . Centre]]. [[GaeGala|GAE]] member, Help Line & GayLine volunteer, member of [[APPLE]] and a member . . .
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NathanElling
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/NathanElling/1990_gay_games.jpg From 1990, when I helped to organize the Gay . . . where I would help with layout duties, the GayLine and events like the AidsVigil (which I helped . . .
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PinkTriangleDay
In 1979, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition declared an Annual Gay Holiday to be held every . . . against the [[CBC]] over their refusal to carry GayLine public sevice announcements, with images from . . .
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PrideCelebrations
== For Current Pride events, click on Events== ==History Of Pride Celebrations In Halifax== ; 1973-08-19 . . . by Audrey Butler. Honourary Marshalls: the GayLine{{Gaezette Pride Program, 1997, p.10}}. Chants . . .
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RadclyffeHall
=Radclyffe Hall= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/RadclyffeHall/opening.jpg Opening Day! Back row: No.1, FredRowe, . . . the downstairs flat, a room was reserved for the GayLine, beside a kitchen with a patio door looking . . . DanielMacKay writes: I remember working the GayLine and having a cockroach fall off the ceiling . . . onto my writing pad. Something tells me that the GayLine may have moved out for this reason, and not . . .
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ReflectionsInAMirrorBall
==Reflections In A Mirror Ball == https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/ReflectionsInAMirrorBall/cover_composite.png . . . the new space, we were able to accommodate the GayLine, a phone service providing information, counselling . . .
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RobinMetcalfe
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/RobinMetcalfe/2008_Straw_Hat_Goddess_by_Jim_MacSwain.jpg 2008. Photo by JimMacSwain . . . the CBC's refusal at the time to advertise the GayLine as a public service. Robin and BobIsnor helped . . .
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RonBryanGarnettDoucette fonds
=Ron & Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds= This is a description of one of the fonds in the RainbowSeniorsArchive. . . . This fonds focusses on the Halifax GayLine. * About 200 index cards documenting typical . . . calls to the Gayline * Log books: at the end of each shift very . . . – folded 8.5 x 11 – during our Studio Days * Gaylines in Canada 1994-02-24 * Organizations / Resources . . . Be Broken'' * [[GaeGala|GALA]] AGM Report 1993 * Gayline Report – 1995-06, total 57 calls, open 30 hours . . .
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RonGarnettDoucette
=Ron Garnett-Doucette= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/RonGarnettDoucette/2005_Bridge1.jpg Ron & Bryan Born . . . Ron was an early member of GaeGala and GayLine and a Resource Person for PFLAG from 1994 - . . .
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Rumours
=Rumours Club= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/Rumours/1993_interior.jpg 1993. Photo scanned from Queer Looking, . . . room, it did have a fairly nice office for the GayLine. [[1987_OldVogueTheatre|There is an image of . . .
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Sparrow
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/Sparrow/logo.jpg =Sparrow= https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/Sparrow/1987-09-24_Programme.jpg . . . A handwritten description of Sparrow] for the GayLine mentioning NormanMoulton and DonWalker as contacts{{Found . . .
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SpeakersBureau
GaeGala, and then the OverThirtiesGroup, operated a Speaker's Bureau; that is, a group of people who . . . Victoria General Hospital Outpatient Staff re GayLine; Dalhousie Sociology Seminar.{{April 1973 GaeGala . . .
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StudioBar
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/StudioBar/1994-03_WayvesAd.jpg March 1994 Wayves Ad Owned by DanielJoseph, . . . offered a room in the basement for the Gayline to use (the last place it ever existed) and . . . paid the Gayline's phone bills. The GayLine was located in the . . .
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TheVoice
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/TheVoice/1976-07_cover_t.jpg ; 1976-07 : "It's about time the one hundred . . . The AlternateBookShop; [[GaeGala|GAE Electons]]; GayLine; Halifax Youth Clinic; Encounter Group using . . . [[The Turret]] by BobStout. : '''Notices:''' GayLine; AlternateBookShop; TheeKlub; [[GaeGala|G.A.E.]]; . . . [[APPLE]]; LesbianCanadaLesbienne; GayLine; : '''Staff:''' Editor: MaryAnnMancini; Typist: . . .
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The Turret
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/The_Turret/outside2004.jpg 2004 In 1976-01 (possibly 1976-01-09{{Dan's notes . . . myself to Barrington Street after phoning the GayLine for directions. I finally got my nerve to enter . . .
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TommyBurns
https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/TommyBurns/ca1976.jpg Tommy Burns ca. 1976 =Tommy Burns= d. 2022-08-20 Tom . . . MikaelaGorman}} Tom was also a volunteer on the GayLine in the early years (1972 to 74-75). He operated . . .
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TonyTrask
=Tony Trask= ; 1977-09 : : Wrote articles for TheVoice. ; Late 70s : : Involved in GaeGala in the late . . . office as well as the SpeakersBureau and the GayLine. ; 2018-08-23 : DebTrask writes: : ''My brother . . .
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TourOfHalifax
=Walking Tour of Halifax= July 2007 - under construction ==Spring Garden Road== * TheTriangle - cruising . . . heritage building. * Several homes for the GayLine * Several bars at 1537 Barrington St (complete . . . policy not to accept free meeting spaces. The Gayline also operated out of the building. // Upstairs . . .
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TowardsAnExperienceOfGayHistory
''Towards An Experience Of Gay History'' is a 2007 paper by GregNepean Nepean contrasts the experience . . . JimDeYoung, DavidGray, GaeGala, RadclyffeHall, GayLine. [https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/TowardsAnExperienceOfGayHistory/Towards_An_Experience_Of_Gay_History.pdf . . .
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WikiTipsForResearchers
=Tips For Researchers= The Halifax Rainbow Encyclopedia (H•R•E) is designed for easy storage and retrieval . . . are not case sensitive, so searching for GAYLINE and !GayLine and gayline are the same. If you . . .
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WorstDates
==Websnatcher's Story== I have one...Years ago, I met a man at a certain bar, as the case always is, . . . I remember a really bad date. Hadn't called the gayline for a long time. One time I called and this . . . turn off he wasnt what I expected. So when on gayline guys dont be fool by voice. and the age is . . .
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