A list of notable lesbian feminist organizations.
Asia and the Middle East edit
Israel edit
- Kehila Lesbit Feministit/Community of Lesbian Feminists (KLaF/CLAF) – a lesbian feminist organization that published the quarterly periodical Klaf Hazak.[1][2]
Thailand edit
Europe edit
Denmark edit
- Lesbian Movement (Danish: Lesbisk Bevægelse) - a lesbian feminist organization founded in Copenhagen and active between 1974 and 1985.[4]
France edit
- Gouines rouges (Red Dykes) - a radical lesbian feminist movement active in the 1970s.
The Netherlands edit
- Lesbian Nation (organisation), lesbian feminist activist group, 1976 until the mid-1980s
United Kingdom edit
- Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group - a radical lesbian feminist organization active in Leeds, England in the 1970s and 1980s that promoted political lesbianism.
- Lesbians Against Pit Closures - a working-class socialist lesbian-feminist alliance that worked to support striking miners during the UK miners' strike (1984–85), formed by lesbian feminists originally affiliated with Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.
Oceania edit
New Zealand edit
- Sisters for Homophile Equality - a lesbian feminist organization active in Christchurch and Wellington in the 1970s and 1980s that published the journal Lesbian Feminist Circle.
South America edit
Bolivia edit
- Mujeres Creando, a Bolivian anarcha-feminist lesbian collective.[5]
North America edit
Canada edit
- Lesbian Organization of Toronto - the first lesbian feminist organization in Canada.[6]
Mexico edit
- Lesbos - a lesbian feminist organization founded in 1977.[7]
- Oikabeth (Mujeres guerreras que abren caminos y esparcen flores) - a lesbian separatist organization founded in 1977.
- Van Dykes, an itinerant band of lesbian separatists who lived and traveled in vans throughout the United States and Mexico.[8]
United States edit
- AMASONG - a lesbian feminist amateur choir based in Champaign–Urbana, Illinois.
- Amazon Bookstore Cooperative - the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the United States, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1970 to 2012.
- Artemis Singers - a lesbian feminist chorus based in Chicago, Illinois.
- Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance - a lesbian feminist organization in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Combahee River Collective - a black lesbian feminist socialist organization in Boston, Massachusetts from 1974 to 1980 that coined the term identity politics.[9]
- Daughters of Bilitis - first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.[10]
- The Feminists - a radical feminist group active in New York City from 1968 to 1973 that promoted political lesbianism and later matriarchy.
- The Furies Collective - a lesbian separatist commune active in Washington, D.C. from 1971 to 1972.
- Lavender Menace - an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the feminist movement.
- Lesbian Art Project - a participatory lesbian-feminist art movement at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles.
- Lesbian Avengers - a lesbian feminist organization founded in New York City in 1992, most notable for creating the Dyke March.
- Lesbian Feminist Liberation - a feminist lesbian rights advocacy organization in New York City formed in 1972.
- Lincoln Legion of Lesbians - a lesbian feminist collective in Lincoln, Nebraska, that supported lesbian rights, separatism, and women-only spaces.[11]
- Oregon Women's Land Trust - a 501(c)(3) membership organization that holds land for conservation and educational purposes in the state of Oregon as part of the womyn's land movement.[12]
- Salsa Soul Sisters - a lesbian feminist and lesbian womanist collective of Black lesbians and other lesbians of color that is the oldest Black lesbian organization in the United States.[13][14]
- Van Dykes, an itinerant band of lesbian separatists who lived and traveled in vans throughout the United States and Mexico.[8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Behar, Ruth; Gordon, Deborah A., eds. (1996). Women Writing Culture. University of California Press. p. 425. ISBN 9780520202085.
- ^ Shalom, Haya (November 1996). "Lesbians Organize in Israel". Off Our Backs. 26 (10): 10–11. JSTOR 20835654.
- ^ Matzner, Adam (1998). "Into the Light: The Thai Lesbian Movement Takes a Step Forward". Women in Action. Vol. 3.
- ^ "HISTORY LESSON: WHEN THE DANISH LESBIANS UNITED". Homotropolis. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ Paredes, Julieta (2002). Quiet Rumors: An Anarch-Feminist Reader. AK Press.
- ^ Ross, Becki L. (1995) The House that Jill Built: Lesbian Nation in Formation, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-7479-0 passim for the abbreviation without periods
- ^ "El activismo lésbico en México. Así era la lucha hace 50 años". Malvestida. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ a b Levy, Ariel (March 2, 2009). "American Chronicles: Lesbian Nation". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ "This Boston Collective Laid The Groundwork For Intersectional Black Feminism". WBUR-FM. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- ^ Perdue, Katherine Anne (June 2014). Writing Desire: The Love Letters of Frieda Fraser and Edith Williams—Correspondence and Lesbian Subjectivity in Early Twentieth Century Canada (PDF) (PhD). Toronto, Canada: York University. p. 276. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780252031892.
- ^ Kopp, James J. (2009). Eden Within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage. Oregon State University Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780870714245.
- ^ Smith, Barbara. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, ed. Wilma Pearl Mankiller, Houghton Mifflin 1998, ISBN 0-618-00182-4 p337
- ^ Juan Jose Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle, Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century, Transaction Publishers 2006 p55