AGQ-F0038

Fonds Felicity Stephens. – [ca 1973]-[1976]. – 2 cm of textual records.

 

 

Biographical sketch:

 

Little information is available on Felicity Stephens or Felicity R. Stephens. According to the archive, she was involved in the Gay Women of Montreal — Labyris association (her position within the organization is not clearly identified) and was treasurer of the Association Homophile de Montréal — Gay Montreal Association (AHM-GMA). According to Ross Higgins, she returned to New Brunswick towards the end of her life and died there. She is also said to have written in Long Time Coming, notably on mental health issues. She worked as a cash auditor for the Androgyne bookstore.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The fonds documents the associative life and activities of the Gay Women of Montreal — Labyris, as well as internal documents from the Association Homophile de Montréal and the Front Homosexuel Québécois de Libération (FHQL). The fonds also reflects a desire to combat discrimination against homosexuals from Christian churches.

 

The fonds contains press releases, correspondence, newsletters, posters, founding documents, by-laws and notes.

 

 

The fonds contains the following files:

 

  • AGQ-F0038/D1. Documents relating to the Gay Women of Montreal — Labyris association
  • AGQ-F0038/D2. Documents relating to the Association Homophile de Montréal — Gay Montreal Association (AHM-GMA)
  • AGQ-F0038/D3. Documents relating to the Front Homosexuel Québécois de Libération (FHQL)
  • AGQ-F0038/D4. ÉSt-Jean-Baptiste Metropolitan Community Church. Information sheet
  • AGQ-F0038/D5. NGEC Newsletter no 1
  • AGQ-F0038/D6. Press release “Mettons fin à la discrimination des Églises contre les homosexuels ”. CHAR and Gay Women of Montreal

 

 

Notes:

 

Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ in 1993 by Felicity Stephens (acquisitions 1993-009).

 

Language: The documents are in French and English.

 

Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.

 

Related groups of records in different fonds external to the unit being described:

 

Periodicals and posters for women’s dances, 1974-76, transferred to the poster collection on 21 January 1995:

  • Dance gaie. Gay dance. . Association homophile de Montréal / Gay Montreal Association, 27 juillet [1974], [Affiche], h : 22,5 v : 43 cm.
  • Dans/ce Entre Femmes. Montréal, 9 avril / April, [affiche], h : 21 v : 28 cm.
  • Dans/ce Entre femmes. Montréal, 22 octobre 1976, [affiche], h : 21,5 v : 28 cm.
  • Danse des femmes. Women’s Dance. 27 août, 21h. 3738 rue St-Dominique, Donation: $2. 27 août, [Affiche], h : 21 v : 33,5 cm.
  • Danse des femmes. Women’s Dance. Newspace. 4 juin, 21h., Powerhouse 3738 St. Dominque [sic]. 4 juin, [Affiche], h : 21 v : 33,5 cm.
  • Entre Femmes. Montréal, 24 septembre 1976, [affiche], h : 21 v : 28 cm.
  • Entre femmes Coffee House, By and for Women. sans date [1976 ?], [Affiche], h : 21,5 v : 27,5 cm.
  • Entre femmes., 3 déc, 21h-3h, 3738 St-Dominique. 1976-12-03, [Affiche], h : 21 v : 33,5 cm.
  • New Year’s Eve Celebration Du Nouvel An. Gay 74. Association homophile de Montréal / Gay Montreal Association, 31 déc, 21h-3h, [Affiche], h : 21 v : 33,5 cm.
  • Women’s Coffehouse. Labyris Montreal, Thurs. Jan. 15 [1976], [Affiche], h : 20,5 v : 34,5 cm.
  • Women’s Dance/Danse des femmes, 23 juil, 21h, Labyris at Powerhouse, 3738 St. Dominique. [Affiche], h : 21 v : 33,5 cm.
  • Women’s Dance/Danse des femmes, bonne musique. Licensé. Licensed. 3738 St. Dominique. 4 mars, [Affiche], h : 21 v : 28 cm.

 

Periodicals [unspecified] transferred to the periodicals collection.

 

 

Bibliographie :

 

Podmore, Julie. “The Lesbian ‘presence’ in the Archives gaies du Québecˮ. L’Archigai n°23, October 2013, p.4. Online.

 

 

 

 

 

            Dernière modification : 2025-02-11