MISSION STATEMENT
To increase the visibility and quality of sapphic literature.
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Our purposes include, but are not limited to:
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Promoting and supporting literature that celebrates, affirms, and recognizes sapphic narratives;
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Providing education, resources, and community support for authors, readers, and literary professionals;
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Hosting events, conferences, awards programs, and educational initiatives that advance these goals.
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GCLS is the leading literary organization for editors, publishers, narrators, readers, writers, and friends/supporters/allies who celebrate sapphic literature.
What is women-loving-women and sapphic literature?
Literature that contains a main character who is a woman or nonbinary person who identifies as lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, Two Spirit, sapphic, homo/bi/pan-romantic asexual, and/or queer. If the literature contains a primary romantic arc, it features a woman or sapphically aligned nonbinary person paired with a woman or sapphically aligned nonbinary person.
GCLS asserts unequivocally that trans women are women.
What does sapphic mean?
Sapphic can be a personal identifier or a classification of media. In either case, it refers to women or female-aligned individuals who feel romantic or sexual attraction to other women or female-aligned individuals.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING SEEN
The Golden Crown Literary Society was established at a time when lesbian, women-loving-women, and sapphic literature was not being recognized by people outside of our community.
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Founded in 2004, the GCLS knows the importance of being seen.
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Our mission statement is at the heart of everything that we do and we strive to make our literature visible and accessible to all.
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If you'd like to be a part of that legacy, please consider donating now.
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