LESBIANS
See also the various subdivisions of LESBIANS heading, below.
Love and work [in relation to lesbian relationships and culture]. Reprinted from
Regina Lesbian Newsletter, Feb. 1985.
P15 [1985]: 7-8 (52cm.)
Michigan reminiscence [personal description of the Michigan Womyn's Music
Festival; comments about meeting prairie women there]. By Denise.
P52 (v7n7)(Oct. 4, 1989): 20 (48cm.)
Lesbians and AIDS. By Antonia Botting, coordinator of the Women and AIDS Project
of AIDS Saskatoon.
P67 (v9n6)[misnumbered on contents page as v9n5](Sept. 25, 1991): 4 (67cm.)
Lesbians and AIDS. By Antonia Botting.
P97 (v13n4)(June 7, 1995): 8 (50cm.)
Drug store blues [in which author relates difficulties of lesbian couple in attempting to
buy latex gloves for sex; problems of understanding and communication;
suggestion of limits of understanding of gay/lesbian life among members of
general population]. By Donna L. Mumm.
P102 (v14n1)(Jan. 31, 1996): 6 (49cm.)
Bridging the gap [in which author writes of importance of gay men being aware and
respectful of the concerns of lesbians]. By Garnet Woloschuk.
P110 (v15n1)(Jan. 29, 1997): 8 (45cm.)
Lesbians and AIDS [Kingston General Hospital's HIV Ford Clinic study shows most
lesbians not practising safer sex; study of 111 women; details].
P111 (v15n2)(March 12, 1997): 21 (27cm.)
Getting it off my chest [concerning lesbians and health care, and including author's
personal account of being fearful of disclosing her sexual orientation to a
physician]. By Erin Scriven.
P115 (v15n6)(Sept. 10, 1997): 4 (39cm.)
LESBIANS -- ALBERTA -- CALGARY
["Just for Us" lesbian conference to be held at Calgary Multicultural Centre on
April 25; some program details given].
P31 (March 11, 1987): 19 (11cm.)
LESBIANS -- CANADA
Breaking the Barriers [title of 3rd annual women's conference sponsored by Canadian
Union of Public Employees; Calgary conference's focus was minorities; lesbians
one of many topics of discussion; Karen Andrews present; etc.] By Barb Clay
and Gens Hellquist.
P47 (v7n2)(March 1, 1989): 17 (31cm.)
International lesbians [Canadian delegation to New York preparatory meeting for
United Nations Conference on Women, Beijing, has included sexual orientation in
proposals to combat inequality; opposition to this by REAL Women and B.C.
Reform MP Sharon Hayes; some supporters].
P97 (v13n4)(June 7, 1995): 28 (26cm.)
Maritime lesbians online [Leslie Bella, Memorial University of Newfoundland,
"believes that heterosexism is rampant in the delivery of many health and social
programs"; is studying issue with a grant; Web site for sharing experiences is
called "Heterosexism Enquirer"; etc.].
P134 (v18n1)(Jan. 26, 2000): 25 (14cm.)
LESBIANS -- GERMANY -- BIOGRAPHY
Lesbian leader [obituary of Dr. Charlotte Wolff, German biographer of Magnus
Hirschfeld; includes photo]. From Gay Times.
P28 [1986]: 25 (21cm.)
LESBIANS -- ONTARIO -- TORONTO
Pussy palace [group calling themselves Pussy Posse arranged lesbian bathhouse
night at Club Toronto on Sept. 14/98; over 400 showed up; "first lesbian
bathhouse in Toronto's history"; etc.].
P124 (v16n7)[misnumbered v16n6 on contents page](Oct. 28, 1998): 23 (17cm.)
Pussy Palace peepers [on September 14, 2000, Toronto police raided a lesbian
bathhouse event, Pussy Palace, held at Club Toronto bathhouse; reactions,
comments].
P140 (v18n7)(Oct. 25, 2000): 24-25 (55cm.)
Police panned for raid [on Toronto's Pussy Palace; Justice Peter Hryn said actions of
officers put police force into disrepute and that the Charter violations would
"shock the conscience of the public"; other details].
P151 (v20n2)(March 13, 2002): 24 (30cm.)
Pussy hearing [Ontario Human Rights Commission announced on June 17 that
there would be public hearing "some time in the future" to uncover the
facts of the September 2000 police raid on Pussy Palace, a women's
bathhouse night in Toronto; other details].
P170 (v22n5)(July 21, 2004): 28 (26cm.)
LESBIANS -- SASKATCHEWAN
Rural connections [rural Saskatchewan lesbian writes of everyday life]. By Jennifer.
P40 (April 13, 1988): 26 (32cm.)
From isolation to community: a personal look at the importance of community
development in rural areas [in article, author describes her growing up in a
small southern Saskatchewan farming community -- with often a sense of
isolation -- and later years in Saskatoon, Calgary, Medicine Hat, and then
Lethbridge; describes her current involvement "in attempting to eliminate
isolation for the bisexuals, gay men and lesbians living in Lethbridge...and area
by attempting to develop a health community"; she is Project Coordinator of a
gay community development project initiated by the Lethbridge AIDS
Connection; etc.]. By Terry Harrison.
P88 (v12n3)(April 27, 1994): 7 (64cm.)
LESBIANS -- SASKATCHEWAN -- SASKATOON
Womyn meet [in which controversy over children at women's dances is discussed by
G/LCCS board].
P3 (1983): 16-17 (37cm.)
Lesbian/feminist workshop [at International Women's Day in Saskatoon, based in part
on Stepping Out of Line: A Workshop on Lesbianism & Feminism]. By Sheri M.
P14 [1985]: 19 (9cm.)
New women's group [group of lesbians met to discuss "lack of events for women only
in Saskatoon"; decision made to hold several events; etc.; no name given for
group].
P53 (v7n8)(Nov. 23, 1989): 8 (21cm.)
Mistaken identity [suspended sentence to Brenda Rudyck, who posed as a man and had
relationship with three young women].
P55 (v8n2)(Feb. 28, 1990): 10 (17cm.)