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

• 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

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.

South America

Bolivia

• Mujeres Creando, a Bolivian anarcha-feminist lesbian collective. ^[5]

North America

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.
• Camp Sister Spirit - a former lesbian feminist retreat in Ovett, Mississippi
• 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]
• Women's Liberation Center, a former fire station used as a space for multiple lesbian feminist organizations. ^[15]

See also

• Lesbian feminism
• Lesbian organizations
• Lesbian separatism
• List of LGBT-related organizations

References

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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.
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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. 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
15. Nowell, Cecilia (December 2019). "A Firehouse Where Pioneering Feminists Have Carried the Torch". Bedford + Bowery. Carter Journalism Institute & New York Magazine . Retrieved June 29, 2025.