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Before the paradeRose, Rebecca http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/before-the-parade/Content?oid=5523368Publisher: The Coast Date Written: 21/07/2016 Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19808 Halifax's first generation of gay and lesbian elders forged a rainbow path that LGBTQIA and Two-Spirited activists continue to march down today. Abstract: - Excerpt: That doesn’t mean Halifax was strictly hetero, of course. It’s a port city, with a large naval presence. We’ve been here, and we've been queer, but haven't always been out and organized. When Metcalfe and his cohorts were my age in 1970s Halifax, the only activist elders were those who had founded the GAE just a few years earlier. They simply couldn’t sit down over coffee with people 30 years their senior and shoot the shit about gay and lesbian activism in 1940s Halifax. ... The fledgling Gay Alliance for Equality was founded in 1972. The founders, nearly equally women and men, were tradespeople, students, teachers, laundry workers, businessmen, accounting clerks and a railway porter. They met in members’ homes as well as the Unitarian Church on Inglis Street. Subject Headings |