Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose rug hooking Imagine opening an envelope and

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

and create designs that generate memories that “Connect with the Sea” allowing folks to experience the ocean at their door

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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 Imagine opening an envelope andIn 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