Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose rug hooking and create designs that generate

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Before the Parade: A History of Halifax's Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984 by Rebecca Rose rug hooking and create designs that generateIn 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