Advocacy of existing rights and those to be recognized by political institutions
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Mission
The Quebec Lesbian Network is an autonomous community action organization that collectively defends the rights of lesbo-queer women and people, amplifying their voices and visibility to enable them to exist fully. Its fields of action include:
Research and documentation about stories and realities of the communities concerned
Popular education and awareness campaigns
Organization of community events
History of the QLN
The Quebec Lesbian Network emerged from a desire to give Quebecois lesbians an autonomous voice in the public arena. While the organization's genesis can be traced back to Quebec's gay and lesbian communities 1996 États généraux, when around thirty lesbians decided to come together to form a provisional committee, the decades following the QLN's creation only confirmed the relevance of the organization and its initiatives. The QLN has intervened on many social and political issues over the years, from the invisibility of older lesbians to the legal recognition of same-sex couples.
Today
The QLN today
While legal advances in LGBTQ+ rights in recent years have been significant, social equality remains a daily struggle. There's no denying that lesbians, bisexual and queer women and people tend to be made invisible, even within the LGBTQ+ community.
In addition to this invisibility, many current issues affecting lesbian communities remain all the more complex: direct or indirect discrimination, intersection of sexism and homophobia, lesbophobia and internalized lesbophobia, aging and housing for seniors, coming-out, lesboparentality, sexual health, corrective rape, etc.
At a time when the demands of the LGBTQ+ community are multiplying and converging on many points, it is essential to present a united front on certain issues, while emphasizing the singularity of lesbian and lesbo-queer lives. The great historical and social movements of recent decades, in connection with the defense of LGBTQ+ rights and activism, have taught us one thing: despite our distinct demands, together we are stronger! It is in this contemporary context that the QLN wishes to once again demand the inclusion of all the realities experienced by lesbian and lesbo-queer communities.
Values
Our values are at the heart of the organization’s actions, and we invite all women and people involved with the QLN to embody and respect them.
Solidarity
We commit to being supportive at all levels: among the members of the organization, within the work team and the board of directors, and with other communities.
Openness
We make a conscious effort to be open and welcoming in the way we work and in our activist spaces, and we value a diversity of ways of being and doing.
Respect
We place at the core of our actions the importance of thinking and acting positively toward ourselves and others, in order to cultivate trust, empathy, and honesty within our communities.
Commitment
We are committed to our communities, celebrate all the women and people who make them up, and contribute to their involvement and empowerment.
Team
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Tara Chanady
Executive director
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Cynthia Eysseric
Interim Director
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Kassandra Rivest
Archivist
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Inès Pécoul-Cabanes
Project Manager
Bord of Directors
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Marika Robert
President
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Marie-Andrée Gauthier
Treasurer
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Carole Lejeune
Secretary
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Marie Di Caro
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Marilou Lebel-Dupuis
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Sylvia DeSousa
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Pia Loorits
