Cancer Care Focus on Q Community

If you’ve had cancer or have cared for someone who has, you're invited to share your insights to help improve access to, and awareness of, psychosocial services for people with cancer

Water, Baby! the review

Water, Baby! has revealed a confident display of vulnerability.

Dartmouth Heritage Museum invites 2SLGBTQIA+ community stories

The Dartmouth Heritage Museum is embarking on the creation of a hybrid oral history and podcast dedicated to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community of Dartmouth and Halifax.

OutFest 2023

OutFest 2023, a celebration of queer performance, will be the largest to date. Over 6-days, patrons will have the opportunity to see some of the best professional Queer theatre in Canada, from completed works that have been on tour, to new and emerging creations.

Water, Baby! at OutFest 2023

Water, Baby! is a new Halifax play about swimming and sapphic love (among other things). To conceive her first ever screenplay, writer and actor Trisha Malik (she/her) drew from personal experience with sexuality and self-discovery.

Rosie Porter, Award-Winning Realtor

Rosie Porter, an openly gay realtor, won the National Top 5% award and the highest achievement award at Royal LePage in 2022.

Editorial: Do We Really Need a Pride Committee in Halifax?

After the tumult in past months surrounding accusations of bullying, theft, and harassment, we would imagine a greater degree of clarity. What has actually happened is less affirming.

Activist from Stonewall 1969 coming to Yarmouth

Southwest Nova Pride Association welcomes Martin Boyce, one of the surviving Stonewall activists, to speak to our community on May 6, 2023, at 2pm, at Beacon United Church in Yarmouth.

Halifax Pride Update

The Halifax Pride association has been in disarray for almost a year now. With former Executive Director Adam Reid having left his position last fall and severe communication problems within an ever-changing Board of Directors, the public is still left to wonder what Pride will look like this summer.

Alzheimer Society of NS Q Community Info Workshop

By: Alzheimer Society of NS • 2023-04-05

On February 8, 2023, Dan MacKay joined the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia Programs and Services staff team for an open and frank conversation about aging, dementia and the LGBTQ2S+ community.  

“The whole team is so grateful for Dan’s time,” says Kirstie Creighton, Manager, Education and Belonging at ASNS. “Dan offered us the opportunity to ask questions and deepen our understandings around supporting LGBTQ2S+ elders. He quite literally said, Ask Me Anything.”