The New York Times looks at lesbian communes founded in the '70s, still in business but worried about new members and survival:
Alapine...is one of about 100 below-the-radar lesbian communities in North America, known as womyn's lands (their preferred spelling), whose guiding philosophies date from a mostly bygone era.
The communities, most in rural areas from Oregon to Florida...have steadily lost residents over the decades as members have moved on or died. As the impulse to withdraw from heterosexual society has lost its appeal to younger lesbians, womyn's lands face some of the same challenges as Catholic convents that struggle to attract women to cloistered lives.
It's certainly a more sympathetic portrayal than the Times would give to, say, a men's club.