Welcome toWikiProject Women in Red (WiR)!
Our objective is to turnred links intoblue ones. Our project's scope is women's representation on all language Wikipedias (biographies, women's works, women's issues, broadly construed). Did you know that, according toHumaniki, only20.13% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women? Not impressed?Content gender gap is a form ofsystemic bias, and this is what WiR addresses. We invite you to participate, whenever you like, in whatever way suits you and your schedule. Editors of all genders are equally and warmly welcome at Women in Red!

LGBTQ+ women edit‑a‑thon
Online event June 2023
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This June, as in previous years, in collaboration withWiki Loves Pride, Women in Red is focusing on LGBTQ+ women (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, nonbinary and other queer or GNC people).

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about LGBTQ+ women, as well as their achievements, writings, organizations, and awards. This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative.

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
• to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on this specific area
• to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
• to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create this month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to the Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and ourTen Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on ourRedlist index. Those relating to LGBTQ women are listed below:

Add other red links here, if possible with a source:

• First Latin American and Caribbean Lesbian Feminist Encuentro,Cuernavaca, Mexico 1987[1],[2]
• Sandi Hall - UK-born author, journalist and feminist activist (Q56072901)

• Mardi Pieronek[3]

• Anjali Ameer
• Noor Enayat[4]

• Eden Estrada (Eden the Doll)[5]

• Noor van Crevel (1929-2019)[6],[7]
• Anne Lize van der Stoel [nl][8]
• Astrid Nienhuis [nl][9]

• Kassie Hartendorp (ActionStation) (Q112130750)

• Aisha Mugdal[10]

• Gretchen Diez, Transgender rights activist[11]
• Mela Habijan, 2020Miss Trans Global[12]

• Anna Dovgopol[13][14],[15],[16],[17],[18]

• Many red links can be found throughout the variousLambda Literary Awards
• Many red links can be found here:Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame
• Pat Walker (activist), activist,[19]
• Lina Biancamano^[1][2]
• Helen Swenson, newswoman, was listed in the 2022 Out100^[3][4][5]
• Charleen Caabay^[6][7][8][9]
• Jane Clementi, founder of TheTyler Clementi Foundation
• Crystal “Pink” Delongpre,^[10][11][12]
• Stacey Stevenson, CEO ofFamily Equality Council, was listed in the 2022 Out100^[3][13][14]
• Jamie Lauren, repeatedTop Chef contestant, (Autostraddle,GO)
• Preeti Mistry, London-born California chef and Top Chef contestant (Eater,Autostraddle)
• Yoanne Magris^[15][16][17]
• Josie Smith-Malave (currently a redirect)
• Brían Nguyen, first transgender title holder in theMiss America Organization[20]
• James Rose (TikToker)[21]
• Lisa Fernandes (currently a redirect)
• Zoë Schor^[18]
• Jen Lindsey
• Red Shaydez^{[19][20][21][22]}
• Anouk Patty, NCAA champion ski racer, was listed in the 2022 Out100^[3]
• Grace Givertz
• Pamela Stewart (businesswoman), chair of GLAAD, was listed in the 2022 Out100^[3]
• girlhouse (musician)
• Marge Ragona, Providence Rhode Island pastor who staged an eight-day hunger strike on the steps of the federal courthouse in Providence, to support the city's proposed anti-discrimination ordinance that would include a provision to protect gays in 1978. Went to Alabama to help marry gay people in 2015. Has been fighting in the movement for over fifty years^{[23][24][25][26][27][28]}
• Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now, was listed in the 2022 Out100^{[3][29][30][31]}
• Maria Sjodin, has held leadership roles at the LGBTQ+ organization OutRight International for more than eight years and recently stepped into the role of executive director. Before joining OutRight in 2015, Sjodin was the executive director of RFSL, Sweden's largest LGBTQ+ organization (and also one of the world's oldest). In this role, she successfully advocated for marriage equality and abolished forced sterilization for trans people who want to change their gender legally. She was listed in the 2022 Out100^{[3][32][33][34]}

Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page viaWP:In The News.

• ... thatPalmire Dumont, a pioneer of LGBT nightlife in "Gay Paree", was among the first members of the French Bulldog-Owners Club(her dog pictured) and met other bulldog owners in her lesbian bar?(2023-07-17)
• ... thatEdna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's"Voodoo"Macbeth?(2023-07-07)
• ... that as a young adult, lesbian novelistLee Winter disliked the poor quality of lesbian fiction, preferring autobiographies by lesbian people?(2023-06-27)
• ... that thetrans woman activistMiss Major(pictured) was meeting with her girlfriend at theStonewall Inn during the police raid that precipitated theStonewall riot?(2014-09-23)

• Malú Urriola(2023-07-27)

• Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons:

Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023Add here – most recent at the top

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  Tribade Sister, drawing by The Countess
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  La Charles, drawing by The Countess
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  Beulah Blackmore
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  Claribel Nye
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  The Countess (trans woman)
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  Nasta Rojc
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  painting by Nasta Rojc
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  Nasta Rojc
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  Mary Grew's mate Margaret
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  UD Centelles in 1970
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  Selecció Ciutat de Barcelona
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  Miriam Greene Paslay

• Invitation:June 2023
• Editathon banner for talk pages – LGBTQ+ womenTemplate:WIR-272:{{WIR-272}}