List of lesbian feminist organizations

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.

Thailand

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

Europe

Denmark

• Lesbian Movement () - a lesbian feminist organization founded in Copenhagen and active between 1974 and 1985.

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.

North America

Canada

• Lesbian Organization of Toronto - the first lesbian feminist organization in Canada.

Mexico

• Lesbos - a lesbian feminist organization founded in 1977.
• 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.

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.
• Daughters of Bilitis - first lesbian civil and political rights organization in the United States.
• 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.
• Latina lesbian organizations in the United States - a collection of organizations based out of the intersectionality of being lesbian identifying Latina's in the United States
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Van Dykes, an itinerant band of lesbian separatists who lived and traveled in vans throughout the United States and Mexico.
• Women's Liberation Center, a former fire station used as a space for multiple lesbian feminist organizations.

See also

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

References