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Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance

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The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) was an American lesbian feminist organization, among the oldest in the country. It formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972 as a breakaway from the Gay Liberation movement and the Atlanta’s Women’s Liberation Center. The organization dissolved in 1994.

Activities

The organization published a monthly newsletter, Atalanta. It established the Southern Feminist Library and Archives, which held feminist, lesbian and activist periodicals as well as the records of ALFA itself and of many other feminist groups in the South. It also had a circulating library of books. When ALFA ceased its activities in 1994, the archives and most of the periodicals were sold to Duke University and are now in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Books & Manuscript Library as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture; books on to feminist theory went to Emory University.

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Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Wikipedia