Founded in 1991, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) provides intellectual leadership to understand and address issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and members of other sexual and gender minorities. As the premier LGBTQ academic research center in the United States, CLAGS fosters cutting-edge scholarship; organizes symposia to examine and affirm LGBTQ lives; and promotes the creation of networks between academics, artists, activists, policy makers and community members. CLAGS is committed to maintaining an extensive program of public events, online projects and scholarship that promote reflection on the queer past, present and future. CLAGS brings together activists, intellectuals, journalists, public figures, artists, educators, students and community members. participate in an ongoing conversation that promotes social change, produces new knowledge, and supports the many LGBTQ communities. Located at the Graduate Center (GC) at the City University of New York (CUNY), CLAGS simultaneously serves one of the most diverse student communities in the United States and populations across the country and, increasingly, the whole world. CLAGS is particularly aware of the diversity of our LGBTQ communities in New York and strives to develop programs and resources truly tailored to the needs of these constituents. During the full year of my internship at CLAGS, I focused on lesbian feminism and how to raise funds for projects. I took a closer look at "In America They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 1970s," an event from 2010. Going further back into the 1970s, it was a time of intense excitement, change, activism and activity for lesbians...... middle of paper ...... shared experience rather than just shared identity. From my point of view, lesbianism has spread to the female audience because women feel that only another woman can understand what she wants or desires, they can relate to each other. others, their problems, their experiences and their similarities. This understanding simply makes partners more open and assertive with each other, as opposed to how they may be with a man. Lesbianism is not just about having sex with another woman. It's about the emotional comfort one gets from that person - the same comfort and love one gets if that person is heterosexual. Overall, my experience at CLAGS was positive. I can learn and develop skills in development as well as fundraising for events. Learning about lesbians in the past also increased my interest in becoming more active in my LGBT community..