USA
Le Droit Humain is a mixed Masonic order that is active in over 60 countries, including the USA under the name “The International Order of Freemasonry, Le Droit Humain, American Federation”. Le Droit Humain originates in France in the late 19th century. In 1903 the first lodge (Alpha No. 301 of Charleroi Pennsylvania) was founded in the USA. More history about these early days here. LDH is not very big in the USA. Under half of the states have lodges, most states just one (with Florida as exception). Find out if there is a lodge near you by clicking here. A quick count results in 17 lodges and two triangles (correct me if I am wrong);
The Honorable Order of Universal Co-Masonry (before April 2017 “The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry”), mixed order. A 1994 split-off of Le Droit Humain (see above) and at the time called “The American Federation of Human Rights”.
After a century of ups and downs for the American Federation of Le Droit Humain, in 1994 a split became unavoidable. The largest part of the American Federation left Le Droit Humain and now remains as the largest mixed gender order in the USA. Karen Kidd wrote in On Holy Ground that at the time of the split, the American Federation of Human Rights had 18 lodges, 8 stayed in the Honorable Order, 6 split off as a new American Federation of Le Droit Humain (see above) and “the membership of four Lodges split between the two orders.” Nowadays the Honorable Order has 29 lodges in four countries: USA, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Philippines, Costa Rica and Croatia. Lodges in Canada and Paraguay are in development.
The Masonic Philosophical Society is the study branch of this order. If their locations are any indication of lodges of the order in the USA, this could be a place to look. If you want to know where the lodges are located, contact the order.
Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasonry. According to the Wikipedia article I linked to above, this order is one of the orders that was founded after 2001 when troubles arose within Le Droit Humain America. It has lodges in the USA and abroad.
Another version is that the order was founded in 2002 in Adyar, India as a split-off of Le Droit Humain. Their website says that:
The Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasonry currently has lodges in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, India, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States, Australia, and South Africa. Others are in the process of forming.
Sister organisation of the Grand Lodge of Freemasonry for Men and Women in the UK)
Grand Lodge, Ancient Universal Mysteries is an international Masonic Order admitting both men and women to meet the demand for the Aquarian spiritual Masonic quest for more light and the restoration of the Ancient Mysteries to outer service as a natural part of the program for human living.
AUM has lodges in Dallas (TX), Boulder (CO), N. San Diego County (CA), New York (NY), Ithaca (NY) and one more in the UK, two in Australia and one in New Zealand.
International Masonic Order “Delphi” resides in Greece, but has lodges in Greece, Brazil, Bulgaria, Romenia and six in the USA (Salt Lake City, UT; Phoenix, AZ; Las Vegas, NV; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Tampa, FL).
The Order was founded in 1926, and was restructured in 1996, under the name “Delphi International Freemasonic Order”.
The first Mixed Lodge was founded in 1926, under the aegis of The International Mixed Freemasonic Order ” Le Droit Humain “, that resides in Paris. In 1996, the General Assembly of the Order unanimously voted its re-establishment under the separate name of “DELPHI”.
(Member of Clipsas)
GWU is a North-American Freemasonic Obedience, with Lodges in the USA and Canada, practicing traditional liberal Freemasonry for men and women.
Existing lodges.
- Liberty Lodge Orien of Washington DC
- Raoul Zetler Lodge Orient of Montreal Quebec Canada
Grand Orient of California, was founded late 2025 by the Californian lodges of Georges Washington Union. GOoC is a mixed gender organisation in the ‘French style’.
- Golden Journey – San Francisco
- Pacific Moon – San Mateo
- Acorn to Oak – Ventura
- Convergence – Sacramento
Outside California:
- Hermetica (Memphis Misraim) – Arcansas
- Salomon’s Council (AASR) – North Carolina
Unión Masónica Universal del Rito Moderno (or Universal Masonic Union of the Modern Rite / UMURM / UMUMR) was founded in Barcelona in 2008. The Union is active in Brazil, Colombia, Equador, Cuba and the USA (California and Georgia). Information on the world wide web does not say as much, but I was asured that the Union has mixed lodges.
For informattion in the English language, especially go to hedgemason.blogspot.com and look for UMURM, or just ‘google’ of course).
Grand Orient de France was founded in 1773. About a century later they got issues with “regular” Grand Lodges when the GOdF dropped the requirement for the belief in something Divine. The GOdF lost its regularity, but not its popularity. What is less known, is that in 2010 the GOdF decided to allow lodges to initiate women. Since then quite a few lodges have voted for this possibility, but not a whole lot initiated any women. According to the GOdF 1.319 women were initiated in 2013. That is not a whole lot against 49.000 members, but on a positive side, there are no less than 1.200 lodges that possibly initiate women; worldwide that is (mostly in France itself). In North America there are lodges in Washington, New York, San Francisco, Los Angelos, Baltimore and Florida. They may not all initiate women, but when you have a lodge near you, it cannot hurt to ask.
(Member of Clipsas)
Grand Masonic Opera. A 2025 “plural” organisation (men only, women only, mixed gender) based in Florida.
Grand Lodge of Modern Mixed Masons, International. A fairly new international order which says to have lodges in the UK, USA, Philippines, Italy, Portugal, Paraguay, Brazil, Mexico and Madagascar. There is a staggering number of “craft” lodges and a large number of other systems. It can’t be corroborated if so many lodges indeed exists, but there certainly are active lodges in the UK and the Philippines.
Women’s Lodges in the USA chartered by the Women’s Grand Lodge of Belgium (GLFB – WGLB), women only, three lodges in the USA (NY (Universalis), Washington (Emounah), LA (Aletheia)), starting in the early 1990’ies;
(Member of Clipsas and Climaf)
Women’s Grand Lodge of California, has three lodges (two in Marywood, one in Santa Monica) working in Spanish and English and working in the Ancient and Accepted Scotish Rite.
Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons, a women only order founded in 1913. There are 17 lodges in the UK, 1 in Romania, 2 in Spain, 1 in Gibraltar, one in India and 1 in the USA (Washington DC).
National Sovereign Sanctuary Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm for the United States and Jurisdictions. “Among the Masonic Rites, this Rite has occupied a particular position since its origin. It has its place among the Egyptian rites that drank from the source of the ancient initiatic traditions of the Mediterranean basin: Pythagoreans, Alexandrian hermetic authors, neo-Platonics, the Sabbeans of Harrân, Ismaelies … It was necessary to wait until the XVIIIth century to find any traces in Europe. These rites were numerous but only two among them came to us: Misraïm and later Memphis. These two would associate and then merge under the influence of General Garibaldi in 1881.”
“Countries where Memphis-Misraïm works today: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Martinique, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, England, Venezuela.”
Non-Masonic, but affiliated organisations are active in the USA are the Order of the Eastern Star, the Order of the Amaranth, Ladies’ North American Shrine of North America and Heroines of Jericho / Order of the Cyrenes. All orders are meant for master Masons and their wives (and sometimes other relatives). See Wikipedia for more information.