GLAD

Gays and Lesbians At Dalhousie

LGBT group at DalhousieUniversity in the 1980s. Met at the SUB Room 314, Thursdays at 6:30pm1

NathanElling writes: ConnieClarke?, RobertMatthews? and I started this in 1986.2

By at least 1992, the group became known as the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association of Dalhousie, abbreviated as B-GLAD, BGLAD, and BGLAD! at varying points.

History

January 11, 1980

Annual Meeting: The meeting was held in the Dalhousie Student Union Building, room 424. It included elections for all positions and publication of The Glad Rag, GLAD’s newsletter. Poet Ian Young did a reading. 3

September 25, 1986

An ad is placed in the Dalhousie Gazette:4

Gay? Lesbian? Bisexual? I am interested in working with other gay, lesbian or bisexual students to organize a club or society on campus. If you would. be interested in forming such a group please leave your name and number at the SUB Inquiry Desk, c/o Gays and Lesbians at Dalhousie (GLAD)

1989

Poster Defacing - In 1989, GLAD posters put up around the Dal campus were taken down, had homophobic text added and were put back up. In the illustration here, the modified parts of the poster are coloured red; the original modifications are photocopied black and white.

September 20, 1990

Letter to the Editor: After GLAD was excluded from the student handbook, GLAD President JulieLewis? wrote a letter to the student paper's editor confirming the group continues to exist to serve gay and lesbian students at Dalhousie.5

1992

According to the Dalhousie Gazette (student paper), the group was now known as Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association of Dalhousie. AnthonyRoberts? was president and PeterEdwards? was the BGLAD representative on Dalhousie Student Union Council.6

November 5, 1992

AnthonyRoberts? pens a piece for the Gazette, "BGLAD!: establishing our voice" 7

November 20, 1992

Hosted the Cin Ball, co-sponsored by TheStudio and Jiffy Condoms 8

February 2, 1999

As part of International Development Week, co-sponsored a discussion on International Queer News -the status of lesbian and gay rights around the world with the Dalhousie Womens Centre & CKDU 9

This page is on the HistoryProjectTodoList:

• who started it? Who ran it during its life?
• what was its mandate?
• when did it start, and end, or get renamed to B-GLAD maybe? and DalOUT
• where were the meetings?
• and get some graphics.