LILAC is open:
Wed. 5.30-7.30pm
Sat. 11am-2pm
LILAC
PO Box 427,
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Useful websites, local and overseas
Book lists, book reviews, blogs
- Bibliographies - a list
of bibliographies, including for children, for gay teens, and on religion and spirituality, etc etc
- Lambda Literary Foundation - LGBT book reviews, author interviews, opinion and news.
Includes the annual Lambda Literary Awards, blog, tweets.
- Rainbow List - annual lists
of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for young people
- Bibliography of Australian lesbian history
- Lesbrary - a book blog
all about queer girl/women books
- Index of lesbian and gay detectives - for lovers of mysteries
- Lesbian literature on the Wikipedia LGBT portal,
which also has information on some Lesbian authors
Queer libraries, archives & msueums
Websites of some of our favourite authors
- Sharyn
Steel has written a book Struggling to Fly about the first 20 years of
her career in the male dominated world of general journalism. Not a specifically lesbian book - but we support our
local lesbian authors!
- Ann Bannon
- Dykes to watch out for - Alison Bechdel
- V.G. Lee - British writer and comedienne
- Val McDermid - British writer and comedienne
Local queer websites
Useful New Zealand websites
- Unity Books where we buy most of our books
- The Women's Bookshop in Auckland;
they have a mail-order service.
- About us - an online legal resource for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, takataapui, fa'afafine, transsexual, transgender and intersex people [home
page has a link to the pdf file]
- OUTline provides a free confidential telephone help
line from Auckland for Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Takataapui (GLBTT) - 0800 688 5463 (0800 OUTLINE)
- PFLAG South Dunedin is a support network for parents and families of lesbian and gays - email: PFlag South.
There is also a Waikato group