Image: Badges from the Charlotte Museum Collection Image: Broadsheet Magazine June 1977 Front Cover, from the University of Auckland...

Female companionship is something that has always existed but has shifted slightly depending on changing societal attitudes. These...

Last night I watched the movie, "the miseducation of Cameron Post." The movie's plot was about a teenager forced to go to conversion...

Dame Lynda and Dame Julie (Jools) Topp, AKA the Topp Twins, have had incredibly varied and successful careers spanning four decades....

Homewares: A decanter and a figure of dolls from the Charlotte Museum. The collection and exhibitions at Charlotte Museum have a wide...

International Lesbian Day is a day for celebration in the lesbian community, but what exactly is International Lesbian Day? And what is...

Walking around the Charlotte Museum I found myself intrigued by a tin in one of the glass cabinets with the word Lezzo placed across it...

A symbol of summer, music festivals bring up memories of grassy picnics, hazy dancing, a cacophony of acoustic bass, vocals, and drums...

“Reading between the lines is a life-long skill acquired by lesbians.” – Doreen Agassiz-Suddens All over the world and across every...

Lockdown has currently put a hold on all our archiving work at the Charlotte Museum until we go back down to Level 2 or Level 1. But...

The cover page of Broadsheet Magazine Jan 1978, issue no. 56. While doing some archiving work for the Charlotte Museum, our team was...

"I'm a feminist, but..." A familiar phrase to many who tune into Deborah Francis-White's award-winning podcast, The Guilty Feminist....

The other day I noticed some very well manicured hands with short nails, I realised my gaydar had been slipping. She smiled in an...

The lesbian community is part of the bigger LGBTI community.  In the past the LGBTI community has come together in times of strife, such...

Are lesbians vanishing? Or has the way we understand visibility changed? World wide, it seems that there are very few lesbian bars, clubs...

Could violence be liberating? Not a commonly posed question concerning women’s relationship to the serious issue of domestic and related...

In 2001 a small archives group was set up in Auckland to try to encourage people to write their stories and send them to LAGANZ (Lesbian...

Flags are an excellent way of identifying things from a distance – Raleigh Choppers parked at the end of a suburban street – for example....

The Charlotte Museum Trust contains within its archives a selection of lesbian feminist newsletters and magazines from the 1980s. Run by...

Recently I had the pleasure of playing tourist in the fine city of Auckland, casting aside my commuters’ hat in favour of walk socks and...