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Lesbian Nation (separatism)

Lesbian Nation was an imagined global community of all lesbian women and a metaphor for self-governance of that community. It gave politically active lesbians a sense of belonging and a heroic narrative of independance, in a time when gay liberation was still in its infancy.

Lesbian Nation is a concept of the radical ideology of lesbian feminism and inextricably linked to its main strategy, that of lesbian separatism. The idea originated in the United States and resonated throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, as well as other countries. It was coined in 1971 and had some significance in the rest of the 1970s, but by the mid-1980s the uniformity of it had been proven not to exist.