Halina Bendkowski (born 28 July 1949 in Gliwice, Poland) is a German journalist, politician, and activist for feminism and the lesbian movement.
[5] The first publication to bear this term in its title was a two-volume documentation published by the Austrian Federal Chancellery in 1993 on behalf of Johanna Dohnal: Test the West.
The concept of gender democracy was adopted in a more general sense by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in the 1990s.
[6] In 1999, Halina Bendkowski was one of the founding members of the Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland (LSVD), for which she was national spokesperson for four years.
With her long-term partner, the US-American theatre writer Lydia Stryk, she lives alternately in Berlin and New York City.