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![🌈 Ngā mihi o te rā – Happy International Lesbian Day! Rā wāhine takatāpui o te ao
Today on October 8th we celebrate ngā wāhine aroha wāhine – women who love women – and acknowledge their strength, stories, and mana. 🏳️🌈💜
At The Charlotte Museum, we protect and share the hītori (history) of lesbian sapphic communities in Aotearoa. We honour the wāhine takatāpui who paved the way and continue to inspire.
Images from our collections:
1. White Badge with Black text "I [red heart] Wahine"
2. Poster, "Lesbianism Means giving women primacy in your life - emotionally, sexually, personally, politically"
🚫 Banned by Wellington City Council, 1980
This poster from the Lesbian Centre was rejected for bus ads, sparking a fight for visibility and equal rights.
3. White badge, Two purple Venus symbols overlapping, Purple text, "Lesbian Visibility, we have to be seen to be believed"
4. 1993 Lesbian Studies conference - Hononga Wahine Takatapui. Labour weekend at Victoria University.
5. White badge with magenta text "Dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians"
6. Poster for Lesbian Liberation Week 1980.
📍Wellington, 1980
This poster comes from Lesbian Liberation Week, organised out of Aotearoa’s first Lesbian Centre, opened in Boulcott Street in 1979.
From protest marches to campaigns for visibility and rights, including a battle with Wellington City Council over bus ads 🚌✊ and pushing for inclusion in the Human Rights Commission Act, this was a powerful era of lesbian activism and resistance.
7. Black and white photo of banner at Lesbian strength demonstration London 1988.
📸 Found in the 27th PRIDE & PROTEST postcard book, 25 years after Stonewall. Captured by photographer Pam Isherwood, renowned for documenting Pride events.
Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui. 💪🏽✨
Be strong, be brave, be proud just like our wāhine takatāpui!
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