The Beginnings, celebration and Joy

We meet the pioneers of ILIS who, with the support of the local lesbian group Interpot, organised the very first international lesbian conference in Amsterdam. That was in 1980. ILIS began to take shape, published its first newsletters, and expanded its network. It was decided that the next conference would be held in Turin. Up to this point, ILIS is still a subgroup of the I-G-A (which would later become ILGA), but upon arriving in Italy, the issue of independence is on everyone’s lips. How can we create spaces of our own and take the time to build a lesbian community when the goals of some seem to differ from those of others? ILIS splits from ILGA and becomes fully autonomous.

Featuring, in order of appearance Evien Tjabbes ; Sylvia Borren ; Haidy Möller ; Paola Bacchetta ; Eva Isaksson read by Sari Kouvo ; Rina Nissim.

Extracts and borrows : Teacher Eliane Morissens ; Foreigner ; Lesbian Nation

To go further : some picture from the Turin conference 1981

The narrative voice : Roberta Miss with Peggy Pierrot for additional voice

Written, made and edited : Virginie Jortay with the complicity of Malin Björk and Evien Tjabbes

Music and audio post production : Teresa Ferraro

Illustration : © Marieke van Ballegooijen and the eye of An/Ash Smolar

Produced by Groupe Kuru and Stichting Vesta, with the support of Mamacash and EL*C. Big up to Carine Demange from Radio Campus. Thanx a lot to la Scam - Belgique

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