List of lesbian feminist organizations

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A list of notable lesbian feminist organizations.

Asia and the Middle East

Israel

  • Kehila Lesbit Feministit/Community of Lesbian Feminists (KLaF/CLAF) – a lesbian feminist organization that published the quarterly periodical Klaf Hazak.[1][2]

Thailand

  • Anjaree – a lesbian feminist and later LGBT organization formed in 1986, defunct by 2011.[3]

Europe

Denmark

  • Lesbian Movement (Danish: Lesbisk Bevægelse) - a lesbian feminist organization founded in Copenhagen and active between 1974 and 1985.[4]

France

  • Gouines rouges (Red Dykes) - a radical lesbian feminist movement active in the 1970s.

The Netherlands

  • Lesbian Nation (organisation), lesbian feminist activist group, 1976 until the mid-1980s

United Kingdom

Oceania

New Zealand

South America

Bolivia

North America

Canada

Mexico

  • 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

  • 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

References

  1. ^ Behar, Ruth; Gordon, Deborah A., eds. (1996). Women Writing Culture. University of California Press. p. 425. ISBN 9780520202085.
  2. ^ Shalom, Haya (November 1996). "Lesbians Organize in Israel". Off Our Backs. 26 (10): 10–11. JSTOR 20835654.
  3. ^ Matzner, Adam (1998). "Into the Light: The Thai Lesbian Movement Takes a Step Forward". Women in Action. Vol. 3.
  4. ^ "HISTORY LESSON: WHEN THE DANISH LESBIANS UNITED". Homotropolis. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  5. ^ Paredes, Julieta (2002). Quiet Rumors: An Anarch-Feminist Reader. AK Press.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ "El activismo lésbico en México. Así era la lucha hace 50 años". Malvestida. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  8. ^ a b Levy, Ariel (March 2, 2009). "American Chronicles: Lesbian Nation". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  9. ^ "This Boston Collective Laid The Groundwork For Intersectional Black Feminism". WBUR-FM. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Love, Barbara J. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780252031892.
  12. ^ Kopp, James J. (2009). Eden Within Eden: Oregon's Utopian Heritage. Oregon State University Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780870714245.
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ Juan Jose Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle, Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century, Transaction Publishers 2006 p55
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