Bi-National Lesbian Conference - After The Conference

After The Conference

The conference spurred on the creation of a Canada-wide lesbian magazine, Lesbian/Lesbienne: the National Newspaper of the Lesbian Movement.

Subsequent Bi National Lesbian Conferences were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta and several other larger Canadian cities.

The 1981 (fifth) Conference in Vancouver has the distinction of launching Canada's first (lesbian pride) Dyke March. In 1982, Toronto lesbian organization Lesbians Against the Right (which grew out of the now defunct Lesbian Organization of Toronto, organized a second Canadian Dyke March in Toronto, Ontario.