International Wages Due Lesbians
- who we are -

Full Text of double spread article coming soon.

We are grassroots lesbian and bisexual women from different countries (South and North), ages, backgrounds, races, Indigenous as well as immigrant, from villages and cities, of different dis/abilities, unwaged, on welfare, mothers, in full or part-time waged jobs including sex workers, teachers, domestic workers, etc. . .

As an autonomous organization within the International Wages for Housework Campaign we campaign for economic, social and legal rights for lesbian/bisexual women, our families and communities, and against all forms of discrimination. We are part of the international network, WinWages, for recognition and wages for all unwaged work so that women everywhere who are doing a mountain of caring work for nothing, will finally have the money and resources we need to make choices, including sexual choices. We campaign against loss of child custody, police arrests, anti-lesbian violence, criminalization, as well as being forced to live an underground existence.

Our initiatives:

Mehmet Tarhan: - a gay conscientious objector detained in Sivas military prison since 8 April 2005, who has been attacked, robbed, humiliated and abused with the connivance of prison guards.  Only after a month-long hunger strike was his safety ensured...

Wages Due Lesbians Statement in Support of Mehmet Tarhan

“Pride in Refusing to Kill” Report of London, New York & Venice protests, 12 July 2005

Action alert 3 - Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan, held illegally, wins rights in prison, on trial again 4 August
Letter to the Turkish Ambassador in London

ASYLUM IS A GAY ISSUE: WOMEN who are LESBIAN/BI, RAPE SURVIVORS, LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS NEED URGENT SUPPORT

Asylum as a gay issue Letter by Wages due Lesbians published in the Guardian
Asylum granted to lesbian refugee, diva magazine, February 2004

Lesbians and gays out of the military 
Opposing war and demanding Investment in Caring, Not Killing (letter protesting pro-war article in lesbian and gay Pink Paper, England).

Letter to Stephen Funk - a gay, Native American/Philipino US Marine who refused to serve in Iraq
Caring or Killing?  The choice is yours - g3, November 2001
Cuidar o matar?  La decisión es tuya - g3, noviembre 2002

Statement by Wages Due Lesbians given at an October 20th event in Philadelphia (US) featuring Gloria Pacis, the mother of imprisoned US Marine refuser Stephen Funk.

Dykes on Strike join the Global Women's Strike to value all our work and lives and against no pay, low pay and too much work! 
Spanish leaflet 
Global Women Strike website, http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
Lima, Peru group.

Lesbians, Money and Power - A Global Perspective  
Organising together South and North to WINWAGES - a US lesbian woman’s personal account of frank discussions of lesbianism, sex, race, class etc..between grassroots women South & North.

Queers Without Money – does money have anything to do with sexual choices? As discussed in Village Voice, New York based community magazine article with reply from WDL.

PRIDE For over 10 years we’ve been raising issues about how Pride has become more a commercial party rather than a political celebration for lesbian and gay rights – far away from its roots of the Stonewall Uprisings in 1969.
Whose Pride? 1990, WDL in UK raises some of the issues above.
Philadelphia WDL, US, speaks out against Pink capitalism at "Gay Shame - the 4th annual radical queer alternative to consumerist Pride celebrations,Brooklyn, New York, June 2001.
Pride 2001: 
Letter to San Francisco Dyke March organisers  
Report from Barcelona, Spain

Talking Black: Lesbians of African and Asian Descent  Lesbian/bisexual women of Colour and white women in IWDL organising together

Human Need Not Corporate Greed
Anti-globalisation organising - IWDL Keynote speech at D2K, March for our Lives, San Francisco

Policing the Bedroom
Organising against UK anti-lesbian and gay laws including Section 28

Lesbian and bisexual women with disabilities talk of 24hr care as "surveillance", for the right to be gay and have sexual relationships.

Winning against prejudice & international news.

Making Trouble Making History 1975-2001- 26 years of Dyke Activism, WDL in England celebrate with an evening of anecdotes, politics, poetry, comedy 

Lesbian mothers – many lesbian and bisexual women worldwide are mothers, and single mothers - we do the same work as all mothers, we struggle on little money but we are often hidden. 
Los Angeles Every Mother Coalition  
UK Child Support Act and Lesbian mothers. 
Single Mothers Self-Defence.

Coming Out in Millions article about Wages due Lesbians in Linc, Ireland, 2003

Contact us: there are IWDL groups in Barcelona (Spain), London (England), San Francisco and Philadelphia (US). Send us your news. . .

We’d like to hear from YOU - 
An Invitation to contact International Wages Due Lesbians

Lesbian and Bisexual Women

All Women Count