Committee meetings and planning materials for Thunder Pride / Pride in the Park 2011.
A complete run of Thunder Gay Magazine, as produced by Doug Broman for Thunder Bay Television. Shows varied in length, with early episodes 15 minutes, later episodes usually 30 minutes, and some hour-long. Each generally focused on a primary topic of interest to LGBTQ+ viewers, and also included news updates and information about social events.
All are available on VHS cassette and some are also available digitally.
Year One:
Year Two:
Subjects noted on VHS cassettes but not linked with an episode number:
Homophobia (1987);
Safer Sex (1987);
Safer Sex (1988);
Safer Sex Live (1989);
Glass Menagerie (1989);
Customs & Glad Day Books (1989);
Christmas Wrapped in Sayble (1989);
Marion & Sylvia (1989);
GLFN Interview (1989);
Ron & Trevor (1989);
Gays & Military (1989);
Multiculture (1989);
Massop/Duluth (1989);
Outing (1990); In The Spirit Of Our Grandmothers (1990); GLFN (Toronto) Conference (1990);
Battering (1990);
GLFN (1990);
GLFN 2 (1990);
Bill 7 (1990);
Misc (1990);
Live: Gwen O’Reilly (1990);
Her Giveaway (1990);
Out of Touch and ACT-B Response (1991);
Issues available:
1980: May, July, Nov-Dec
1981: Jan-Feb, April-May, June, Aug-Sept, Oct-Nov, Dec-Jan
1982: Feb-March, June-July, Aug-Sept, Oct-Nov
1983: Dec-Jan, Feb-March, April-May, June-July, Aug-Sept
1985: December
1986: March, Fall
1987: Winter, Spring, December
Primarily thank you notes and letters from people and groups in the community.
Also includes some homophobic hate mail.
Includes a complete run of Thunder Gay Magazine as produced for local television 1987-1991. The program addressed a variety of topics affecting LGBTQ+ people locally.
Also includes various television and radio news programs, and informational videos produced by the AIDS Committee of Thunder Bay.
Includes news clippings, LGBT publications, posters and brochures for local events and services. Also includes materials for training and education programs about LGBTQ issues and homophobia.
News clippings, posters and brochures for events, primarily related to the Canadian government decision on same sex marriage in 2004-2005. Most records have a local focus.
Workshops and reference material on supporting LGBTQ+ youth particularly in schools, also news clippings and stories.
Publications and resource material on subjects including supporting youth, religious practice, reading lists.
News clippings, newsletters, correspondence with political representatives, and notes. Primarily focused on same sex marriage rights in Ontario.
News clippings and publications, relating to ordination of LGBTQ+ people, spousal benefits, and other rights issues.
Also includes newsletters of the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario.
Posters produced by AIDS Committee of Thunder Bay and others, event posters, news clippings and magazine articles. Many on the subject of homophobia and violence.
Information regarding Gays of Thunder Bay, including the organization's history and constitution. The organization later became Gays and Lesbians of Thunder Bay, and then Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals of Thunder Bay.
Also includes Belrose's writing about the history of LGBTQ+ organizations in Thunder Bay, information about the Backstreet Athletic Club Auxiliary, and news clippings and stories related to same-sex spousal rights and anti-discrimination laws.
Also includes copies of homophobic material.
Brochures, news clippings, and copies of articles, particularly on the subjects of counselling and social work, and legal rights.
Publications, news clippings, conference materials, bibliographies of LGBTQ+ books, magazines including mainstream publications addressing LGBTQ+ issues, and legislative briefs on LGBTQ+ issues.
Consists of files on a variety of issues affecting LGBTQ+ people in Northwestern Ontario particularly, and in Canada and worldwide. Files include correspondence, news clippings, and documents. Many files on local issues include material authored by Belrose.
Also includes records of local groups including Gays of Thunder Bay (1980-1993), Out and About, BGLLU, Pride Central, Northern Pride youth group, and AIDS Committee of Thunder Bay / AIDS Thunder Bay.
Publications and brochures, news clippings, and notes, relating to the intersection of LGBTQ+ issues and various Christian denominations.
Correspondence between members of the steering committee, events planning. Also includes many publications from other organizations, including the Northern Women's Centre.
Steering committee meeting agendas and notes, annual general meeting, and event planning.
Includes membership / mailing list.
Out and About: Thunder Bay newsletter for the LGBTQ+ community. Includes issues, material to be printed, annual general meeting.
Also includes membership / mailing lists
Meeting minutes and speaking notes, correspondence among steering committee, events planning, and proposed constitution for Out and About.
Material from Rainbow Youth Connection, Northern Connection Newsletter, Northern Pride Support Group; writings by local authors; poetry and song lyrics. Material related to schools issues, counselling, and social work. (A significant amount developed by David Belrose and Barbara Spencer (and others) for training/consulting.) Material from Other Young Lives: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth conferences, including planning, feedback, and survey results. Planning notes for Northern Connection Newsletter.
Includes homophobic material.
Materials and notes from the Other Young Lives II conference.
Northern Pride: a “support and education group for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth”
Records include contacts, posters, schedules, and planning notes for the Northern Pride support group. Also includes photographs and newsletters.
One issue (1997) of Northern Connection Magazine.