Supporting our lesbian sisters THREAD EDITED BY MNHQ AT OP'S REQUEST

I hate to ask - and only do so because you will be asked in all earnestness can transsexual/vestite male borns who fancy women be there? You will be asked and the answer - no matter what - will be attacked.

Lesbian Strength March and Rally

We are a group of proud lesbian (adult female homosexual) women organising a march and rally for lesbians to be held in Leeds, UK on Saturday 7th September 2019 starting from City Square at 2p.m.

All women loving women are welcome.

We want to celebrate all lesbians past and present from all walks of life.

Our sincere desire is for all lesbians to be able to embrace themselves, to be comfortable with their sexuality and for them to know that they are loved and appreciated just as they are.

We acknowledge and condemn the lesbophobia and misogyny still very much present in our communities today all over the world and the resulting prejudice, persecution and violence our lesbian sisters face every day.

We wish to honour them and we stand with them in our struggle to be free.

We would like to draw strength and inspiration from our rich lesbian and feminist history to recreate and reaffirm lesbian culture and lesbian only spaces.

We need to raise some funds to meet the costs of organising this march and rally such as travel costs for women on a low income who wish to attend the event, bands, other musicians and speakers, P.A./sound system and venue hire.

Please give what you can if you would like to support us.

Thank you!

www.gofundme.com/f/lesbian-strength-march-and-rally

👍🏻. I see women were refused drinks And the police called.

One of them was..... wearing a t-shirt...

And in other news... press photographers are barred from Pride. Kinda makes you wonder...

And the t-shirt modelled by the amazing Martina!

Just one more for the road

Oh sorry Lord, got it, was having a slow moment there

I saw this today, made me sad. There is a generation of lesbians growing up with no lesbian community.

Get The L Out have a support page on their website.

getthelout.wordpress.com/support-us/

They've spam-proofed their email address on that page so you'll have to edit it carefully if you want to use it for any reason.

Haha, I’m just trying to work out what a gold star lesbian who doesn’t define womanhood in a way that’s dependant on biology is. I’m interested to know precisely what criteria you’re measuring your big shiny gold star against?

Magdelen Berns (a lesbian) has discussed this:
Published on 23 Sep 2016
"Riley J. Dennis thinks the terms "Gold Star Lesbian," "Gold Star Gay," and "Platinum Gay" should be "dropped from our vocabulary", I explain why h should probably stay in h* own lane and stop telling gays and lesbians how we get to describe ourselves."

Is a one star lesbian akin to hotel ratings where one star is poor and five stars is excellent?

That was an attempted joke . As in ‘who was that again?’

Sorry Lord was that to me?

Who?

(Oops Malcolm (here I am wittering on about erasure and misspell his name) And I’m glad he (like Stormé) is revered - just wish they would all watch the doco & respect his identity).

(Sorry OP - quite a derail - back to supporting lesbians now)

Sorry Leeds (all is forgiven)!

Leeds Spinners! I've seen it in person.

I also like the banner that says ‘wrong side of history by arse’ I can’t remember the groups who made it -Sheffield spinnners? It’s a beautiful piece of art but the slogan really makes it! Both banners should go to a museum!

I seem to remember that Marshas sister said he never said he was a woman! It hey, why listen to family and people who actually knew him eh?

That’s the banner! Thank you - it’s now my official response to all the rainbow/sparkle/unicorn posts I am getting on social media. Pride month my arse.

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That banner is amazing! Hope someone can take it on the 5th.

Malcom Johnson (aka Marsha, his stage name) - gay man who liked doing drag. According to the 1992 documentary which interviewed him!

It’s sad that the G have meekly handed him over to the T, instead of claiming and celebrating him as an iconic GNC gay man. I think it’s because masc gay men tend to be valued more than femme gay men.

Fekko This one? I took the photo, feel free to use it as you see fit.

Does anyone have a screenshot of the banner that says ‘everyone knows a black lesbian started the stonewall riots’? I feel the need to post it somewhere...

I saw something on the news I think last night no Storme and dead-transed a male who never said he was a woman! God some people need to be educated...

Yes I believe Stormé (a Black lesbian) threw the first brick and they have “transed” one of the other protagonists into a TW... (he) was a gay man. They are erasing the L and G.