The Gay Women's Alliance was a Seattle-based lesbian feminist group founded in 1971.
Founding
editIn 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
editIn 1971, the Gay Women's Alliance opened a Gay Women's Resource Center at the YWCA, where they provided sober social activities and maintained a list of lesbian-friendly businesses within Seattle.[3] The name would later be changed to the Lesbian Resource Center.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Atkins, Gary (1949). Gay Seattle: stories of exile and belonging. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 134–138. ISBN 978-0295992822.
- ^ "LGBTQ Activism in Seattle History Project - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ "LGBTQ Organizations and Periodicals - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
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