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.Ross, Becki L. (1995) The House that Jill Built: Lesbian Nation in Formation, University of Toronto Press, passim for the abbreviation without periods
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.Smith, Barbara. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, ed. Wilma Pearl Mankiller, Houghton Mifflin 1998, p337Juan Jose Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle, Free at Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century, Transaction Publishers 2006 p55 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 organizations Lesbian separatism List of LGBT-related organizations
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