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Lesbian Organization of Toronto
AbbreviationLOOT
Formation1976
Dissolved1984
TypeLesbian organization
Legal statusinactive
Purposeadvocate and public voice, educator and network
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario, Canada

The Lesbian Organization of Toronto (L.O.O.T. or LOOT)[1] was a lesbian organization founded in 1976 and disbanded in 1980.[2] The group was Toronto's first openly lesbian feminist group, and its members elected to open Canada's first Lesbian Centre.

  1. ^ Ross, Becki L. (1995) The House that Jill Built: Lesbian Nation in Formation, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-7479-0 passim for the abbreviation without periods
  2. ^ Ross (1995), p. 11

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