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For the Record
Article in The Body Politic about a critique and an attempt to ban the book The Joy of Gay Sex by an executive assistant to the federal justice minister as a response to an inquiry by the Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN) . The book was…
Letter from St. John's
Article announcing the new Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) at Memorial University of Newfoundland which was available to faculty, staff, and students, as well as the public. It notes that GALA hosted a Halloween dance and it is rumoured that they…
Gay? So are we!
An advertisement for the Gay Association of Newfoundland in the MUSE student newspaper that says "Gay? So are we! To contact someone gay about being gay write: Gay Association in Newfoundland (G.A.I.N.)"
NDP Fights discrimination based on Sexual Orientation
An article in MUN's student newspaper the MUSE that discusses a recent change in party policy for the Newfoundland's New Democratic Party that pledges to support gay and lesbians in Newfoundland and Labrador. As well, the party resolved to further…
GAIN Foresight May 1983
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. The newsletter opens with a note from the president of G.A.I.N. who mentions a private members bill introduced in the House of Commons to add sexual orientation to the list of prohibited categories…
"For the Record"
Article segment about an inquiry made by the Gay Association of Newfoundland (GAIN) in regard to the book The Joy of Gay Sex. It received a response from the executive assistant to John Crosbie (Federal Justice Minister) saying: "[it] is of the…
GAIN Foresight August 24, 1985
Monthly newsletter for members of the Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN). It announces the next few GAIN dances and notes that the group was planning a trip to Halifax in early October. It reports that a brief that GAIN prepared for the House of…
GAIN Foresight November 23, 1985
Monthly newsletter for members of the Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN). It announces GAIN’s Christmas dance, to be held the following month at the Graduate House. It also provides several updates related to AIDS, including a look at which…
GAIN Foresight September 1987
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. It announces dances at Priscilla's Bar throughout the fall; that the GAIN newsletter would be moving to a monthly format and was seeking volunteers to contribute; that GAIN was hoping to set up…
GAIN Foresight February 1986
Monthly newsletter for GAIN members. It announces that a telephone line will operate out of Wally Upward’s house, the opening of a new gay bar, Pricella’s, and efforts to have sexual orientation added as prohibited grounds of discrimination to the…
GAIN Foresight July 1986
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. The Gay Pride Weekend had been held that June, and the newsletter provides a review of events, including a rally in Bannerman Park, a dance at Grad House, and a fundraising benefit at Priscilla's…
GAIN Foresight May 1985
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. It notes that a dance had been held on April 13th at Grad House, fundraising for famine relief in Ethiopia, and announces that GAIN's next general meeting would be on June 11 and its next dance on…
GAIN Foresight December 1984
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. It details a Halloween dance held on October 27th that included a costume contest, and another dance on November 17th. It reports that a Christmas party was being held on December 15th at Grad…
"Newfoundland gays urge broad reading of Charter rights"
Article reporting that the Gay Association in Newfoundland had presented a brief to the House of Commons Sub-Committee on Equality Rights to advocate for gay liberation. Wally Upward presented on behalf of GAIN, the Provincial Advisory Council on the…
"Biking for custody across the country"
Article about Carol and Cheryl, members of the Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund Calgary, who cycled from Vancouver to Newfoundland in 4 months to raise money and publicize their cause. The women raised hundreds of dollars and created contacts across…
G.A.I.N. Dances
Short article promoting two G.A.I.N. dances: a Halloween dance on November 2, 1985, and a regular dance, on November 23. The article explains what G.A.I.N. is, and that the profits made from their dances fund their various operations, rent, and…
"Gaining ground again"
An article discussing the latest incarceration of the Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN.) It appears to have been a positive event as the publication of GAIN's first newsletter skyrockets, called "Gain Foresight." The article then goes on to…
"GAIN dance"
Article in The Body Politic about a dance GAIN (Gay Association in Newfoundland) was hosting in conjunction with the Chicago House AIDS hospice performance fundraiser for queer people who are dying of AIDS. The event was being hosted as a Christmas…
GAIN Foresight February 1986
Monthly newsletter for GAIN members. It includes several announcements: that a telephone line will operate out of Wally Upward’s house; the opening of a new gay bar, Pricella’s; and efforts to have sexual orientation added as prohibited grounds of…
GAIN Foresight March 1985
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. Notes that GAIN had an ad in the Evening Telegram and mentions Blair J, a member of Gays of Ottawa that brought them a copy of "The Gay Organizer". They were looking for two men and two women to…
GAIN Foresight September 1985
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. Reports that the Memorial University of Newfoundland Film Society held a screening of The Times of Harvey Milk, considered to be “the most important gay film of the year”, on September 27th. AIDS…
GAIN Foresight December 1985
Monthly newsletter for GAIN members. It includes news items such as a dance that was to be held at the Women's Centre. Reports that GAIN has AIDS brochures such as “It’s Raining Men, Do You Have Your Rubbers On?” and “This is a Test, This is Only a…
GAIN Foresight January 1985
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. Reports that GAIN is selling pink triangles for $5 to GAIN members and requests that sexual orientation be added to the Newfoundland Human Rights Code, and that there is one case of AIDS in…
GAIN Foresight October 1985
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. Reports that GAIN raised $382.75 at their AIDS fundraising night at Katz bar in order to buy and freely distribute AIDS information; they sent for pamphlets from the Harvey Milk Lesbian and Gay…
GAIN Foresight October 1987
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. In this newsletter, Priscilla’s Bar (379 Duckworth St., St. John's; now the Republic) is mentioned as Newfoundland’s only gay bar; it hosts a support dance for GAIN. The newsletter also advertises…