A brief look at the life and loves of Katherine Mansfield. After discussing female companionship, it would be difficult not to talk about...

The famous poet Sappho may be well known, but not many details about her life are clear. Born around 615 B.C., her life and its events...

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

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

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...

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

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

Our Beginnings Since 2000 a group of women discussed how to preserve the many lesbian cultural objects such as labrys, paintings,...

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

There is no doubt in the mind of anyone affiliated with the Charlotte Museum Trust, that preserving lesbian heritage and culture is an...

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...

See these items and more at the Charlotte Museum! Shown below are some of the interesting items we have on display at the museum.