Name/TitleBanner: Sappho ~ Lesbian Feminists
About this objectMedium-sized textile banner on a purple background with a folded over section for inserting a pole at the top and green tassels at the bottom. The banner bears the name 'Sappho ~ Lesbian Feminists' and is decorated with crocheted sections, mixed media flowers and symbols, including the labrys, interlinked female (or Venus) symbols and a portcullis with green, white and purple ribbons. The year 1980 has also been embroidered in purple.
MakerSappho
Date Made1980
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, textile
MeasurementsH: 910 x W: 1690 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsarts - textiles
Subject and Association KeywordsLGBTQ+
Subject and Association KeywordsFeminism, feminist movement
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_(organisation):
Sappho was an English lesbian social club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others. The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London. The group advertised their meetings in the magazines Time Out London and City Limits. Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies. Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for Arena Three (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before. Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea. Back issues of the magazine are now held in the Hall–Carpenter Archives.
Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1990s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn.
Named CollectionLesbian Archive @ Glasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBanner (textile)
Object numberGWL-2025-25
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved