The Belgian lesbian undertones of French songs By Marian Lens Les dessous lesbiens de la chanson is a four-handed book written by journalist Léa Lootgieter and singer-songwriter Pauline Paris . Julie Feydel’s drawings illustrate each of the forty chapters devoted to a singer. The book is a rich compilation – a true goldmine – of…
Which sexualities and identities are possible and allowed for women in the post #MeToo era? By Marian Lens Did a sexual revolution take place in May 1968? In European, Western spaces, it turned out to have allowed men absolute free access to women after a limiting puritanist period of a few centuries. What is the…
What do our tours consist of? In this section we present the philosophy of our tours, which was published in 2017 in a magazine (*). The detailed article offers a clear picture of the various stories (herstory and history) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex communities or people that L-Tour brings forth during the…
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…
