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Vancouver Lesbian Collective feminist campaign
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Vancouver Lesbian Collective is a group of lesbians committed to fighting against the oppression, erasure and silencing of lesbians.
Please support our 2026 feminist campaigns:
- public education,
- events for lesbians,
- feminist advocacy for lesbians and all women.
Making the law work for lesbians
We applied for status to intervene with our expertise in a BC Supreme Court case (Amy Hamm v British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives). The judge applied a double standard to the evidence she agreed to hear: She denied intervenor status to the Vancouver Lesbian Collective, who supports women’s sex-based rights, but granted intervenor status to Egale and West Coast LEAF, who have betrayed their constituencies in advocating for gender identity ideology. This prejudices the court to side against the right of female employees to state the facts that matter to their lives. We appreciate the financial support that emboldened us to make arguments in court that:
- Being female is a lifelong, biologically-integrated fact that impacts innumerable aspects of our physiology, life course, and social status.
- “Sex” is expressly protected by section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provincial Human Rights codes, and must be defined as biologically-based.
- A lesbian is someone who is biologically female and same-sex attracted. This definition is fundamental to lesbian identity, sexuality and experience.
- It must not be seen in law as discriminatory for lesbians to define or defend our sexuality (as same-sex attracted women).
In the course of our everyday lives as lesbians and in our advocacy for lesbians, girls and women, Vancouver Lesbian Collective firmly states that sex is real and it matters. Vancouver Lesbian Collective continues to organize public support to stand up for sex-based protections in law, in the workplace, and in society at large.
Vancouver Lesbian Collective organizes successful lesbian pride and social events several times each year. We are entirely volunteer-run, and a registered non-profit society, based in Vancouver with members throughout BC.
Contact us to attend our Lesbian Pride BBQ, or an upcoming film night or dance.
We host large public education events, notably a series entitled Feminists Speak Out, including a 2024 public panel featuring Kathleen Stock and Cherry Smiley about the problems for women and girls of gender identity ideology and in 2025, a panel on the importance of women-only organizing, featuring Julie Bindel and Vancouver Rape Relief.
Over several years, we have led a coalition of women around BC on a campaign #WomenDemand #GuaranteedLivableIncome, which saw the participation of women from 17 locations around the province in a well-covered campaign for a Guaranteed Livable Income.
Please visit our website at www.vancouverlesbiancollective.com to learn more about our feminist campaigns on behalf of lesbians!
Your support allows us to be a vibrant voice for lesbians, and for all women's entitlement to sex-based protections.
Thank you for your support and your generous donations.
Remember—no amount is too small (or too large)!