One flyer proposes building “a community of women” to create “alternatives to patriarchy.”
Another suggests “future country girls” attend a meeting in the Gilford School’s choir room if they’re interested in “buying collective land in the Montreal area.”
As early as 1981, communes owned and operated by lesbians have existed in rural Quebec — and some still exist today.
And it’s no coincidence these flyers for what became known as lesbian lands advertised meetings at the Gilford School.
Between 1985 and 1996, a group of lesbians leased the Plateau-Mont-Royal school and ran it as a community centre with a lesbian choir, self-defence courses, dances
