The Lesbian Politics Area is one of the FELGTB most remarkable areas. Since 2002 until 2005, the first Coordinator of this area was Desireé Chacón, a very well known activist among the FELGTB. At that time she was the Lesbian Group Coordinator at COGAM, in Madrid, until 2004. After Chacón, another lesbian activist took her role at the Lesbian Politics Area in 2005: Patricia Ojeda, from the Canarian association GAMÁ. In January of 2007, Carmen G. Hernández was chosen as new Coordinator. She comes from Col·lectiu Lambda (Valencia) where she was the Spokesperson, Communication Responsible, and the Coordinator of the Education Commission. 

According to Article 24 of FELGTB Rules- reformed at the IV Congress of the FELGTB-, “There is an Area of Lesbian Politics whose members come from the FELGTB members’ women groups and sections. This Area has autonomy to develop lesbian politics and its organization and developing will be established through the FELGTB Areas’ Regulations.” Lesbian Politics Area focuses its work in the development of politics and actions to contribute eradicating different levels of discrimination that lesbians suffer in our society.    

The Lesbian Politics Area meets at least four times a year. Since 2007, it organizes its internal work through commissions.  Besides organizing and celebrate its biennial Lesbian Politics Conference, this Area wants to develop all kind of activities and actions in order to achieve its goals.

For further information, please contact Lesbian Politics Area’s Coordinator: politicaslesbicas@felgt.org 

“We, lesbian people, are at least the half of the homosexual community, for this reason we can not be considered as a minority inside the community itself. Social and political guidelines issued by the GLBT movement are still, in spite of the strong efforts realized in last years, regarded the male sex as primary. Gays, men, continue to be the point of reference for all the things. Hardly the socio-political guidelines include the homosexual women reality and we must be conscious that beyond the legal discrimination suffered by gay and lesbian people, social, economic, family and sexual situation are different from the gays’ one, and this difference has to be visible to face the challenges. The struggle for this equality between gay and lesbian people concerns everybody. Both realities should be included in a same political and social programme, to better know all diversities and fight against all inequalities with the same resources. Lesbian people are not something “particular” in the GLBT reality, but rather the general too. The instruments of each group (lesbians and gays) to reach equality in the society are usually different, and for this reason the knowledge of both realities is essential to plan strategies of struggle against inequality mentioned above.”

(Conclusion unanimously approved during the 2nd FELGT Conference)