Le centre de documentation La Bibliothèque La Fontaine – visité le 16 octobre 2019 – fait partie des premiers fonds nés dans les années 1970, issus de la Seconde Vague du mouvement féministe contemporain en Belgique. La deuxième visite – le 19 octobre 2019 – a été celle du centre d’archives du Fonds Suzan Daniel,…
From Rempart des Béguines to homosexual love affairs Françoise Lilar, whose pen name was Françoise Mallet-Joris, was a prolific author of some thirty novels and biographies (of women), a few plays, and lyrics for French singers. She would keep her dual nationality, Belgian by birth and French by naturalization, for the rest of her life.…
LENS, Marian : Historical evolution of the lesbian movement in Flanders from the 1970s onwards, in : Chronique Féministe (Université des femmes), Féminismes et lesbianismes, n°103-104, juillet/décembre 2009. The purpose of this article is to provide an analytical overview of the lesbian groups, coalitions and key events that allowed a lesbian movement to emerge in…
By Marian Lens This talk was given at the invitation of Pride Festival for the conference of September 20 (2020) Espaces publics, Affaires Privées. Quelle place avaient les lesbiennes et les gays dans la ville du XIXe à la fin du XXe siècle ? “Urban public space and clandestine encounters have always been closely…
By Marian Lens This presentation was given as part of the theme on “Visibility” during the first colloquium on the oral history of “Homosexual Activism in French-speaking Belgium since 1950”, which took place in Brussels on September 27, 2012. A repressive historical context Let us first recall the context of the mid-1980s. We are…
