These questions became the starting point for several events during the first Women's Summer University in Munich and for the 10th Berlin Lesbian Week in July and October 1994 respectively. This article summarizes the topics discussed in Munich and Berlin, suggests changes in libraries thought necessary by the meeting participants, and gives an update on activities initiated.
Libraries have the opportunity and the duty to supply materials for all people in their communities.
Therefore, they hardly announce their information needs to libraries. Library staff can choose to take part in discrimination against parts of the population or single user groups. But libraries can also see a social opportunity, if not a responsibility, to aid in the struggles of groups discriminated against by positively serving these groups with high quality library services. Like all other social groups, lesbian women have widespread information and entertainment needs to which libraries should respond. To summarize, one can say that lesbian women also but not only want to read about heterosexuals.