GAIN Foresight June 1985
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Title
GAIN Foresight June 1985
Description
Gay Association in Newfoundland monthly newsletter. It includes information on upcoming events, including dances at the Graduate House on July 13th and August 14th; a beach party on July 14th; softball games every Sunday; general meetings of GAIN on July 10th and August 14th; and a potential “wild weekend” in Halifax that was being planned for the fall.
It notes that GAIN was preparing a brief to be presented to the Parliamentary Committee on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms during the Committee’s St. John’s visit.
It also describes the “beer strike” of the past two and a half months and GAIN’s struggles to get anything other than hard liquor for their events.
It contains ads for a room for rent; a gay Newfoundlander living in Fort McMurray seeking to connect with gay men from home; resources on gay events across the Atlantic provinces; and a new gay bar in Saint John, New Brunswick.
It includes a reprint of article from the Evening Telegram by Betty Ryan. Interview with two men who identify as gay, both of whom are GAIN members. They speak about discrimination and the work GAIN is doing to address the issue in the province.
It contains details of Tina Turner’s concert dates in St. John’s which were “next to impossible” to get tickets for, and the hours for Newfoundland’s only gay bar, Katz.
It also includes news from the United States and updates on AIDS, including information on the Red Cross's new policy to test for AIDS in all donations, an international conference on AIDS held in Atlanta, and a brief from the Gay Health Association based in Halifax on the "Blood Test for AIDS" controversy.
There is a copy of an article from the June issue of The Body Politic on the introduction of a bill to legalise “homosexual acts” between consenting men age 16 and older, and details of similar legislation in other countries.
It notes that GAIN was preparing a brief to be presented to the Parliamentary Committee on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms during the Committee’s St. John’s visit.
It also describes the “beer strike” of the past two and a half months and GAIN’s struggles to get anything other than hard liquor for their events.
It contains ads for a room for rent; a gay Newfoundlander living in Fort McMurray seeking to connect with gay men from home; resources on gay events across the Atlantic provinces; and a new gay bar in Saint John, New Brunswick.
It includes a reprint of article from the Evening Telegram by Betty Ryan. Interview with two men who identify as gay, both of whom are GAIN members. They speak about discrimination and the work GAIN is doing to address the issue in the province.
It contains details of Tina Turner’s concert dates in St. John’s which were “next to impossible” to get tickets for, and the hours for Newfoundland’s only gay bar, Katz.
It also includes news from the United States and updates on AIDS, including information on the Red Cross's new policy to test for AIDS in all donations, an international conference on AIDS held in Atlanta, and a brief from the Gay Health Association based in Halifax on the "Blood Test for AIDS" controversy.
There is a copy of an article from the June issue of The Body Politic on the introduction of a bill to legalise “homosexual acts” between consenting men age 16 and older, and details of similar legislation in other countries.
Creator
Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN)
Source
Paper text held in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_period/id/91422
Publisher
Centre for Newfoundland Studies and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archive Initiative
Date
June 15, 1985
Format
jpg
Language
English
Type
Newsletter
Collection
Citation
Gay Association in Newfoundland (GAIN), “GAIN Foresight June 1985,” The Newfoundland and Labrador Queer Archive, accessed December 3, 2024, https://nlqueerarchive.com/items/show/108.