List_of_lesbian_feminist_organizations
A list of notable lesbian feminist organizations.
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Israel
Thailand
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
- 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.
New Zealand
- 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.
Bolivia
- Mujeres Creando, a Bolivian anarcha-feminist lesbian collective.[5]
Canada
- Lesbian Organization of Toronto - the first lesbian feminist organization in Canada.[6]
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]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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