2018-02
Fag-about-town since about 1983, one of the GayBears. I was chair of the PrideCommittee for three years and was on the committee for a decade, and have been with WayvesMagazine since the mid-80s. I helped build the inside of Rumours on Granville Street when I first came to Halifax, and have done some activism but it's not really my thing. I was chair of Halifax Pride for three years and on the board for another seven; Friend-of but not a card carrying member of (all of these are defunkt - maybe there's a message here) BluenoseBears, GaeGala, GayLine, MacLeather, and SafeHarbourChurch, OverThirtiesGroup, TightRope.
You won't find me advertising in the ClassifiedAds or at SeaDogsSauna (except I did write the review after LilBear and I visited on opening day) or using any of the other ways of MeetingPeople because I have sufficient men in my life at the moment.
My Current Projects
- Provincial Queer Archvist with the [[DalhousieQueerArchives?|Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archives Project]]
- Solar Nova Scotia - solar and alternative energy sources, http://solarns.ca/
- ElderBerries - Secretary & occasional Acting Chair
- WayvesMagazine publisher and chief geek
- HistoryProject - a collaborative history of gay life in Halifax
- Helping run this system - writing, tuning up code, monitoring performance. My wishlist for system changes when I have time, can be found in WikiTodoList. The history of the Rainbow Encyclopedia is here: AboutThisSystem
- Promoting this system - that is, AdvertiseTheWiki, with luck resulting in WikiInTheNews
- A church-y project which for the time being I'll call ChurchGrowthProject.
Back Burner
- ArchivesDatabase: stalled out due to lack of involved people; part of it's online at http://bonmot.ca/lgbt-archives/
- A WayvesMagazineIndex? including advertisers and article authors for the history of the magazine
- Write about my experiences at JimDeYoung's place in the early '80s. There's a very good short version of it on an Apple // disk IIS.90.1 that starts with, "The queerest thing? That's easy: When I first came out, the first gay person I met was Jim, "Mother" to his friends. For a couple of indistinct months, I spent all my free time in his apartment. For that time I had no trouble with the concept of a distinctly "gay lifestyle."
- 2008
- Recipient of Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's first Community Hero Award. Xtra! Article here, Here's DeniseHolliday interviewing KevinKindred about it.
- 2012
- Halifax Pride Parade Honourary Marshall.
Contact
mailto:av231@chebucto.ca
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