The Lesbian Group was constituted in April 1999, with the help of Rebeca Sevilla, who came here to help lesbians and bisexual women in ACCEPT to organize and grow as a group within the association. An unprecedented number of women participated in that meeting. Everybody agreed that the birth of a lesbian group was needed, in order to increase lesbians’ visibility in the homosexual minority.
        We celebrate now a year from the date the group was constituted, and lesbians have began acting. There are more of us; we are more mature, and we are wiser. The year that passed enriched us with new experiences. We are more willing to involve in activities organised by ACCEPT, as well as in ones especially designated for and by us. Here is a brief account of our first year:

- We created Women’s Workshop, which takes place every Monday, between 18-20, in the ACCEPT office. Within the workshop, we debate various issues, and each of us can be herself – each of us can learn from others’ experience or share her own experience. This activity is still in its beginning, but we feel that the special bonding it creates will make it very successful, in time.
- As for the ACCEPT newsletter, lesbians have become more and more visible here, too. Starting with this year, the Lesbian Group will provide monthly articles on its activity, as well as general ones.
- On the 11th of March 2000, the Lesbian Group organised a party in ACCEPT. The party, which was designed by and for the lesbians, welcomed any ACCEPT volunteer, irrespective of his/her sexual orientation, and was a celebration of spring.
- The Lesbian Group was involved in yet other events from outside the organisation: the 2nd National Conference of Women’s NGOs in Romania and the presentation of ACCEPT before FAPTE (Women’s Association for Positive Activities, Tolerance and Education). On this occasions, we agreed upon co-operation projects and established significant contacts, from which the entire association can benefit.
- Between 28-30th April 2000, the Group was invited to take part in the Millesbium Festival, in Prague. The event includes women from the major lesbian organizations in Eastern Europe and is a good opportunity for us to introduce ourselves, to establish contacts and partnerships, to learn from the experience of NGOs which are close to us not only geographically, but also in what concerns legislation and mentalities.
- Lesbians will involve in yet other gay/lesbian projects, organised by ACCEPT (for example, in a project dedicated to the promotion of gay subculture). We hope to finalise soon another project, exclusively designed for the Lesbian Group.
- Lesbian representatives will take special courses for non-governmental organizations activists; by this, our group will hopefully become more efficient and more useful in representing the minority of lesbians and bisexual women.