[3] Members present at this meeting decided to rent part of a house (342 Jarvis St), to develop a multi-use lesbian centre.
[4] The collective also included Eve Zaremba, who would later become one of Canada's first notable openly lesbian writers,[5] and Lynne Fernie, a noted documentary filmmaker.
It serves social, recreational, personal, cultural, political and educational purposes for the lesbians involved.
During informal discussion, members of L.O.O.T expressed their outrage that in their view a "sex-change he-creature... dared to identify himself as a woman and a lesbian."
[11]The organization regularly provided peer support, telephone counselling, dances, social and political activities, a lending library, a newsletter, potluck socials, brunches, concerts and performances by well-known feminist and lesbian musicians like Ferron, Alix Dobkin, Mama Quilla II, and Beverley Glenn Copeland.
members, in collaboration with the International Women's Day Committee, organized that year's Bi-National Lesbian Conference on the University of Toronto campus.
[14] Historian Becki Ross refers to the factors leading to the organization's closure as "multiple and complex" and notes that they included political differences, fragmented membership, volunteer burn-out, inflated expectations, lost organizational focus and changing political climate.
's telephone peer counselling functions were taken over by the Lesbian Phone Line, who continued to offer this service in the city until 1984.