May 22–24 Kingston, Ont. The Queen's […]
When
1976-05-22 – 1976-05-24
Description
May 22–24 Kingston, Ont. The Queen's Homophile Association (QHA) sponsored the conference "The Not-So-Invisible Woman: Lesbian Perspectives in the Gay Movement." Fifty men and forty-five women from Ontario, Québec, and Nova Scotia attended. Although Wages Due Lesbians did not send an official delegation, they circulated a paper outlining the need for lesbian autonomy in the gay movement. Francie Wyland of Wages Due Lesbians moved at the first plenary session that the women in attendance meet alone to decide the agenda and direction for the conference. The conference reconvened, without the men, with the discussion focusing on lesbian autonomy. At the end of the conference, the lesbians met with the men to report on their discussion. They reported a need for an autonomous lesbian movement in Canada and the establishment of an informal coalition to work towards this goal. (See also June 1976.)
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Boo Watson, "The Kingston Homophile Conference: A Report," Lesbians Organize (1977), pp. (13–16).Boo Watson, "Conference Urges Lesbian Autonomy," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), p. 7Tom Warner, Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 178–79Wages Due Lesbians, "Lesbian Autonomy and the Gay Movement," Body Politic, no. 25 (1976), p. 8Greg Spurgeon and Marie Robertson, "Gender Justice!" GO Info, 3, no. 2 (April–May 1976): 7"Proceedings of the QHA Conference on Women in the Gay Movement, Kingston, May 22–24, 1976," Dialogue (MHA, Hamilton), July 1976, pp. 8–24Linda Lounsberry, "Lesbian Conference in Kingston," Other Woman, 4, no. 4 (July–August 1976), pp. 10, 19Pat Leslie, "Behind Open Doors," Body Politic, no. 43 (1978), pp. 12–13Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), pp. 288–93"The Kingston Conference," Dialogue (MHA, Hamilton), July 1976, p. 4Anne Fulton, "The Lesbian Conference: 'We Realize the Need,'" Voice (GAE, Halifax), no. 1 (July 1976), pp. (2–4)Margaret Fulford, ed., The Canadian Women's Movement, 1960–1990: A Guide to Archival Resources/Le mouvement canadien des femmes, 1960–1990: guide de ressources archivistiques (Toronto: Canadian Women's Movement Archives/ECW Press, 1992), entry 477Glynis Ellerington and Marie Robertson, "Lesbians and the Gay Movement," GO Info, 3, no. 3 (June–July 1976): 7"Conference Focusing on Lesbians: News," Long Time Coming (Montréal), 3, no. 4 (April–May 1976): 38"Conference Favours Lesbian Autonomy," Gay Rising, Summer 1976, p. 4
