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Gemma (organization)

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Formation
  
1976

Region served
  
England

Headquarters
  
England

Official language
  
English

Type
  
Organization for lesbians with disabilities

Purpose
  
Social networking, Support group

GEMMA is a magazine and a social group founded in 1976 whose mandate is to provide a "friendship and support group for disabled lesbians in England."

The organization was founded by members of lesbian organization Sappho and mixed organization Campaign for Homosexual Equality, including Elsa Beckett. Gemma's member newsletter was published in regular print, in braille as well as cassette format.

In her essay Unearthing Our Past: Engaging with Diversity at the Museum of London, Raminder Kaur describes a leaflet promoting the activities of Gemma, which is a part of the Museum of London collection, as "crucial to exploring the theme of multiple identities or difference within difference".

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Gemma (organization) Wikipedia