Gay Women's Alliance
The Gay Women's Alliance was a Seattle-based lesbian feminist group founded in 1971.
Founding
In 1971, Pandora, a Seattle publication covering lesbian feminist issues announced that women from the Gay Liberation Front had held a meeting to discuss how the gay liberation movement could serve the interests of gay women and sought to form a group. The Gay Women's Alliance, known as the GWA, was founded two weeks later.[1][2]
Gay Women’s Resource Center
In 1971, the Gay Women's Alliance opened a Gay Women's Resource Center at the YWCA,[3] where they provided sober social activities and maintained a list of lesbian-friendly businesses within Seattle.[4] The name would later be changed to the Lesbian Resource Center.[1]
References
- 1 2 Atkins, Gary (1949). Gay Seattle: stories of exile and belonging. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 134–138.
- ↑ "LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ↑ Stannard, Meredith; VanBronkhorst, Erin; Julie, Erin Norma; Shelly, Meredith; Jody; Farbor, Ann; Dawson, Dena (October 19, 1971). "Calendar". Pandora. Independent Voices. Reveal Digital. 2 (1).
- ↑ "LGBTQ Organizations and Periodicals - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
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