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2025

Intersecting Choruses: Racialized and Migratory Lesbo-Queer Realities

Here, each story is a manifestation of an intersection of specific identities. Racialized and queer, the ten narrators are the heirs to anticolonial, antiracist and systemic struggles while living on the margins of imposed cisheterosexual norms. This double positionality places them at the centre of a complex articulation of powers and exclusions, but it also confers them invaluable opportunities for subversion and quest for the self. Through their accounts, fragments of poignant, vibrant and vital collective memory are woven, which shape the present and sketch a dreamed and desired future.

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2025

Report on lesbian-bi-queer and sapphic communities in Canada in 2024

Report on lesbian-bi-queer and sapphic communities in Canada in 2024.

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2024

Enjeux et réalités des identités lesbiennes (FR only)

Enjeux et réalités des identités lesbiennes, bisexuelles et queers* au Québec en 2023.

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2021

Portrait des femmes de la diversité sexuelle au Québec (FR only)

Portrait des femmes de la diversité sexuelle au Québec en 2020.

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2021

Sondage COVID-19 (FR only)

Sondage COVID-19 : Impacts sur les femmes de la diversité sexuelle au Québec.

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2022

Portraits JVL 2022

For the third consecutive year, the QLN is launching its zine featuring portraits for the 2022 Lesbian Visibility Day. This large-format zine, spanning around a hundred pages, highlights the history of Lesbian Visibility Day as it approaches its 40th anniversary. It also includes interviews with organizations involved over the years, such as GRIS-Montréal, Interligne, and the Fédération des femmes du Québec, a tribute to Marie-Claire Blais, as well as an interview with the 2022 Lesbian Visibility Day spokesperson, comedian Coco Belliveau. Additionally, it features the recipients of the Visibility and Tribute awards, Sarahmée and poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard.

2021

Portraits JVL 2021

This large-format zine, about fifty pages long, highlights thirty women from diverse backgrounds who are active in the Quebec LGBTQ+ community, coming from various cities and regions. Of diverse ages and backgrounds, whether they work in the arts, business, hospitality, politics, culture, or the community sector, whether they are activists, mothers, militants, or retirees, their journeys are unique, inspiring, and shaped in their image. Notable mentions include Katherine Levac, Diane Obomsawin, Chloé Robichaud, Julie Lemieux, Marie Houzeau, Alicia Kazobinka, and Franklyne, as well as the spokesperson for Lesbian Visibility Day 2021, top model Ève Salvail.

2021

True Stories

From a first youthful love to a story of old age. From a failed first date to a hidden love at first sight. From corrective rape to an aborted love. From a necessary transition to a life-changing immigration process. From a tale of domestic violence to a matrimonial relationship. From sexual abuse to an accidental coming-out. True stories that, until now, few have acknowledged—stories of those who write their joys as well as their sorrows, with the courage of their own words. In this collection of 22 texts, in both French and English, lesbo-queer individuals from here and elsewhere share their unfiltered experiences, lending their voices to realities that are still too often silenced, overlooked, or ignored.

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2020

Portraits JVL 2020

With this publication, the QLN aims to promote the diversity within our community, but above all, to dispel the rumor… You know, the one that says, "there are too few LGBTQ+ women role models in Quebec"? In reality, this rumor stems from the fact that these role models are hardly visible, even though they exist and are present in all fields! This series of inspiring portraits was released as a countdown to the 2020 Lesbian Visibility Day.

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2019

Lesbo-Queer (FR only)

At a gathering with friends, Camille and Winema meet. From an instant love at first sight to the birth of their first child, the two women navigate a life that is loving, bittersweet, activist, and even taboo, yet always authentic and entertaining. With Lesbo-Queer, the Quebec Lesbian Network (QLN) publishes its first comic as a publisher. It aims to highlight women from diverse sexual backgrounds by sharing authentic and positive stories.

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2017

L se racontent (FR only)

To amplify the voices of women from sexual diversity, the QLN is publishing, for the second consecutive year, a collection of texts written by its members. Short stories, poems, essays, and song lyrics come together in these pages, crafted by lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and queer women.

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2016

Éphémères (FR only)

This first short story collection, initially published by Homoromance Éditions and later by the Éditions saphiques du RLQ, is the first lesbian anthology of its kind published by the organization. The book celebrates love, sensuality, and sexuality for and by women who love other women. The works presented are the product of the imagination of our members who responded to a call for submissions. The result is a dozen short stories that blend fiction, reality, and poetry.

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2005

Vieillir en étant soi-même (FR only)

Étude sur les défis de l’adaptation des services résidentiels aux besoins des lesbiennes âgées.

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2011

Les droits clandestins (FR only)

Les droits clandestins : les enjeux et les problèmes de l’intégration des lesbiennes dans les organismes communautaires intervenant auprès des femmes.

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