On April 26, 2025, celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day! This day is part of an entire week devoted to celebrating lesbians around the world, as part of Lesbian Visibility Week. Both Lesbian Visibility Day and Lesbian Visibility Week started in West Hollywood in 1990 and ran for a short two-year period. Lesbian Visibility Week was initially […]

As we mark International Women’s Day, it’s important to remember that gender equality isn’t a finished conversation—especially for 2SLGBTQIA+ women in Canada. While we’ve made some progress, there are still plenty of obstacles in areas like workplace discrimination, gender-based violence and healthcare access. These issues show just how much more needs to be done to […]

October 8th is International Lesbian Day, a day to celebrate the history, impact, and beautiful diversity of the Lesbian community, uplift their voices and reaffirm our commitment to supporting Lesbians throughout the entire year. The origins of the word ‘Lesbian’ can be traced back to ancient Greece, where the lyric poet Sappho lived on the […]

September 14 marks the day the The Pussy Palace, Toronto’s first women and transgender bathhouse, opened in 1998. However, two years later in 2000 it also marked the first – and last – police raid of a bathhouse in Toronto. The Pussy Palace was the first of its kind in Toronto, as it not only […]

Four women were enjoying a night out on January 5, 1974, when an uninvited man approached them and became aggressive and insulting. Following the incident, the women were verbally harassed while in police custody and were not allowed to call a lawyer.