Posted: Dec 29, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 29, 2020
Jacqueline Gahagan is a health promotion professor. She s also the driving force behind the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive project at Dalhousie University.(Elizabeth Chiu/CBC)
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax are creating an archive of materials relating to the LGBT community in Nova Scotia dating back to the mid-1900s.
Jacqueline Gahagan, lead researcher on the project, said living in Halifax where there s a naval base and a strong military presence made the creation of the archive even more important because many LGBT people in that era were kicked out of the military after being outed.