Stageplay KAMP finds the humour in tragedy Teaming up with Neptune Theatre and Eastern Front Theatre, the writer and composer/lyricist have put together KAMP, a play about gay prisoners who begin a cabaret while in a Nazi concentration camp in WWII Read... |
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Queer Highlights of the Film Festival! HALIFAX • Jordan Parker • 2018-09-13With the help of FIN Program Director Jason Beaudry, Wayves presents a comprehensive list of queer cinema you can't miss. SplintersThis film is directed by queer filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald and is based on the life of queer playwright Lee-Ann Poole. It shows the struggle of Belle, who told her Conservative mother she was a lesbian in her teens. Now, she comes home to Nova Scotia for her dad's funeral, and has to tell her mother that she's in a relationship with a cis man. Read... |
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The Atlantic Jewish Council's Shalom Magazine devoted a page to their participation in Pride 2018. The full issue can be found here. Read... |
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Upcoming Gay Mens' Health Webinars The Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health (CBRC) has several upcoming webinars of interest for those who work with gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM). Loneliness – in collaboration with Ontario’s Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance These webinars will begin with an exploration of the concept of loneliness and its impacts on behaviour. It will then move on to explore risk factors specific to gbMSM and best ways to reduce and prevent loneliness. A two-part series: Read... |
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Halifax Pride celebrates inclusion for 2018 "There are always a million things going through our heads, and this programming has been months in the making. We have been filling in a lot of details, but I don't often feel this good going in," says Adam Reid, Halifax Pride's executive director Read... |
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Sex Now 2018 is a survey of gay, bi, queer, and other men into men (including trans guys and two-spirit guys). We need volunteers at Halifax Pride to recruit and assist survey participants. Read... |
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Sam Wilson 1942 - July 12, 2018 Enigmatically as ever, Sam wrote his own obituary. Read... |
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By: Village of Pugwash Commission • June 26, 2018 The Chair of the Pugwash Village Commission says it is unfair that Pugwash is being dragged into a controversy that has nothing to do with the village. The Maritime Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church will host a week long conference with one agenda item that has raised concern in the LGBTQ community. Bill Martin says the conference is staged annually at Camp Pugwash, a church facility about ten kilometres from Pugwash. Read... |
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Amherst held its second Pride Parade on June 16th. It was a great success and the participants and onlookers had a great time. Read... |
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Panel discussion on LGBTQ Seniors Housing HALIFAX • 2018-06-27 • By Jordan Parker Dalhousie University is taking cues from the European Union in their public panel and discussion surrounding housing for seniors in the LGBTQi2S population in Halifax. Read... |
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