Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose rug hooking Once the trio is back

Once the trio is back at Auntie’s house

Imagine opening an envelope and finding one of these Maud Lewis greeting cards

White envelope included

"My first kit was 18 by 30

Lewis’s work has been marketed and co-opted as part of the larger folk identity in Nova Scotia for decades

Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose rug hooking Once the trio is backIn Before the Parade, journalist and activist Rebecca Rose brings her queer femme, feminist perspective to this compelling, and necessary, history of the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community in Halifax. Here are stories of being at the forefront; of founding a group to fight for gay liberation just three years after the Stonewall riots, of initiating the first nationally coordinated gay and lesbian day of action in 1977, and of spearheading a campaign