LGBT and queer issues

ABOUT SHEBA FEMINIST PRESS

Sheba Feminist Press was established in 1980 -- one of a handful
of small independent publishers born of the UK women's movement
during the 70s and early 80s. The new feminist presses turned
their backs on the high-modernist clique then firmly in control
of the British book scene, and looked instead at what that world
literally couldn't see: the writing of women who hadn't been to
Oxford or Cambridge, and who weren't necessarily white or
heterosexual or middle-class, and who didn't speak with the
polished vowels of Bloomsbury. The new

Transpunk is a UK-based webzine for those interested in queercore, genderfuck, punk, poetry, photography, street art and the like.

German lesbian-feminist history site, including biographical sketches and a list of German-language films with lesbian actors in the cast or showing relationships between women.

"Every social group needs access to its own history. Knowledge of our past gives us a cultural roots and a heritage with models and experiences to learn from and emulate or choose not to follow. Lesbians have been deprived of virtually all knowledge of our past. This is deliberate since it keeps us invisible, isolated and powerless. [...] the suppression of lesbianism extends beyond the control of contemporary images and information to include control of historical knowledge [...]."2

"Was set up by a group 'to provide a forum for gay women'. 10 issues a year produced. Small circulation, but wider readership; distributed via bookshops, subs, direct sales- 'not separatist against men or non-gay women'. Costs: £20-30 per issue, mostly self-financing. An open collective produces this mag and it is easy for new women to be involved. Aims to: educate, disseminate information, support gay women, etc. Contributions are invited and sometimes material is reprinted if it has any connections with their aims/would be of interest to their readers.

Sappho was a magazine established in 1972 to cater for lesbians with Jackie Forster as editor. Sappho organised meetings in a Chepstow public house with speakers including Anna Raeburn, Mikki Doyle from the Morning Star, Maureen Duffy who read her poetry, and the barrister Elizabeth Woodcraft who spoke on the rights of lesbian mothers. It was wound up in 1981 as a result of declining readership, falling subscriptions and criticism that it was not sufficiently political.

In Solidarity with “Out of Place”
(posted on behalf of ‘In solidarity with “Out of Place”, London’)

This statement is written by a group of white non-Muslim queer activists in solidarity and support for the writers of the article “Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror’” (2008) by Jin Haritaworn, Tamsila Tauquir and Esra Erdem. This article problematises the role of the white queer activist Peter Tatchell, amongst others, in the construction of Muslim communities as homophobic, highlighting the racist and imperialist effect such constructions have in the context of the ‘War on Terror’. Haritaworn et al. point out that in many of Tatchell’s campaigns and political statements the discourse he uses reinforces the idea of Muslims as dangerous extremists, and constructs Muslims as “the other” of white gay people, and that in doing so he dismisses and marginalises the voices and experiences of queer Muslims, in particular those who object to having Tatchell as a spokesperson for their struggles.

Lesbo Magazine
Political, cultural and social magazine, the successor of fanzine Lesbozine (1987-1988) and bulletin Pandora (1993-1996). It has been published since 1997 as a non profitable, free publication. Lesbo magazine aims at sharpening the critical and intellectual blades and at damage-control. It promotes stories, politics and views, arts and attitudes, practices and theories about the resistance and radical fights against homophobia and any other exclusive orientations. It breaks identity consolidations wherever they limit the diversity as an existential right; therefore it opens the issues, which are usually closed down by the social consensus: non-monogamy; underground; trans-gender and trans-sexuality; gender technology; pornography as activism; political manifestations; the catholic church and lesbianism; lesbian motherhood; lesbian trade unions; gay and lesbian studies; lesbian motifs in art; lesbians in cyber space; closet and scenes.

As such it participates in wider civil, political, social and cultural efforts aiming at breaking the massive walls of civil apathy, political ignorance, ideological terror and mind exploitation.

Trikster is the first Nordic web magazine with a queer perspective on culture and politics. Trikster mixes genres and forms, and presents a variety of academic, activist, artistic, and political voices with a queer perspective. Trikster covers contributions in different formats, media and languages: English, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. Trikster published two issues a year. The last issue (#4) was published in 2010.

Trikster’s blog publishes information on new queer events, publications, demonstrations, and other things.