The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London.
Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies.
[1] Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for Arena Three (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before.
Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea.
[2] Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1990s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn.