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As Lesbians are NOT visible in Lesbian visibility week please add news and celebration about lesbians

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IwantToRetire · 26/04/2023 18:37

I'm not even going to link to the web site that calls itself Lesbian Visibility week as apart from looking like a corporate rip off, how it describes itself means that is celebrating everyone as under their definition anyone can be a lesbian (ie non binary people)

And of course has all the usual suspects promoting it.

Please add anything old or new or a memory that celebrates biological women who are sexually attracted to biological women.

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AnotherAngryAcademic · 23/04/2024 16:57

IwantToRetire · 22/04/2024 16:35

So this week is Lesbian Visibility Week 2024 and I haven't dared read the official web site.

Anyone else want to accept the challenge?!

https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/

I clicked on it.

Blurb on the landing page:

For Lesbian Visibility Week 2024 we will be celebrating the power of sisterhood by uplifting incredible LGBTQIA women and non-binary people from every generation, in every field and in every country around the world. One community, so many brilliant individuals. This year DIVA is working in partnership with EL*C (Euro Central Asian Lesbian Committee), ILGA World, GLAAD, Curve and LGBT Foundation to make Lesbian Visibility Week a truly international stage where iconic LGBTQIA women and non-binary people can all take a moment in the spotlight to be recognised for the work they do and the joy they bring.

Why can't they say that Lesbian Visibility Week is an "international stage where iconic LESBIANS can take a moment to be in the spotlight" ?

Clicked on workplace tab... it's an ad for a conference. Plenty of trans and non-binary workshops, not a single workshop about lesbians. DIVA awards tab: no mention of lesbians on the landing page. Events: Southbank surfing (I remember that being fun, back in the day...), other than SBS the only other event that seems to be about lesbians is the "Lesbian Visibility Closing Party 2024" (which does unfortunately seem like it's closing down lesbian visibility, as if that was needed...!)

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IwantToRetire · 23/04/2024 16:34

2mummies1baby · 23/04/2024 08:10

I'm pretty sure it was just a joke!

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Thanks - of course, although admit my use of emojis was a fail - it should have been Grin

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2mummies1baby · 23/04/2024 08:10

AliceKyteler · 23/04/2024 07:21

What an incredibly stuck up reply.

I'm pretty sure it was just a joke!

AliceKyteler · 23/04/2024 07:21

What an incredibly stuck up reply.

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IwantToRetire · 22/04/2024 23:40

Thanks for the link - and an acceptable reason to be listening to C&W Star

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AliceKyteler · 22/04/2024 22:00

@MarieDeGournay
Ha! Right back at ya 🙂

MarieDeGournay · 22/04/2024 21:40

AliceKyteler - love the nameWink

AliceKyteler · 22/04/2024 21:18

I'd love people to know about Chely Wright (those who don't already) and her story. She nearly took her own life and the start of this documentary shows her barely hanging on to life.
She is a very famous country and western singer from the US who struggled with her sexuality combined with deeply religious upbringing.
This documentary follows what happened when she came out, all the crap and all the good.
Spoiler she has a happy ending

Wish Me Away (2011)

Wish Me Away is a 2011 documentary film directed by Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf. Winner of 12 film festival awards, it is about the coming out of the co...

https://youtu.be/4lLezd07Ius?si=12g4IlkmoB8JbxZ7

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MarieDeGournay · 22/04/2024 16:43

I loved this thread first time round, I've missed it! The world out there is a chilly place for lesbians, and it was full of so many warm and wonderful stories. More would be very welcome.💝

lonelywater · 22/04/2024 16:43

WaitingForMojo · 07/04/2024 22:49

I’m a lesbian. Please don’t use me in your crusade. Standing by our trans sisters and brothers and non binaries, along with many other lesbians too.

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trans sisters? you mean blokes then.

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IwantToRetire · 22/04/2024 16:38

MPs to discuss "a motion" on Lesbian Visibility Week.

No clue as to what the motion will say. Very strange.

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/202/backbench-business-committee/news/201007/mps-to-hold-a-debate-on-lesbian-visibility-week/

But not to worry the House of Commons Library will provide a briefing(?) https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2024-0081/

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Adarajames · 08/04/2024 15:29

The T really shouldn’t even be tacked on to the end of LGB as they all relate to sexuality / who you desire, and as many Trans persons will tell you, it’s not to do with who they sleep with!

GeorgeOrwellsTurningGrave · 08/04/2024 08:49

"Crusade?" Interesting choice of word, really. I'm not the one trying to change the meaning of words. Lesbians are women who are same SEX attracted. There are other words for those that include men, however they present, in their dating pool. HTH.

Non binary BTW means nothing to non believers. It has no logical, non circular definition. No one can tell me what "gender" means.

Some people might believe they have an inner "gender" essence sometimes described as somehow both fluid and never-changing, something that can't be seen or evidenced, only felt. That "gender" is also defined by what it isn't - the set of rigid SEX based stereotypes the claimant does not subscribe to. As if any human being is a set of rigid sex based stereotypes. (It's like the Eighties never happened.) So again Crusade is such an interesting choice of word.

My post was speaking to the many lesbians who do not feel represented by your movement, which was patently obvious. Feel free to scroll on by. We don't have to agree. Isn't that a wonderful thing? To tolerate differences? You should give it a try some time.

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IwantToRetire · 07/04/2024 22:55

I’m a lesbian. Please don’t use me in your crusade. Standing by our trans sisters and brothers, along with many other lesbians too.

Many lesbians as do other women support the right for those who question the gender stereotypes society forces onto them

What they dont accept is the extreme trans ideology (mainly created by deeply sexist men) is that lesbians should accept TW as lesbians.

Lesbians, like gay men, are same SEX attracted.

So the real danger to lesbians and their right to be lesbian are the trans ideologists.

That's why LGB Alliance was formed and has been so sucessful.

Same sex attractions has nothing what so ever to do with those who have got caught up in being captured by gender roles to the extent that, very like the straight jacket of victorian society, they cant be biological male and feminine, or biologically females and masculne.

Trans ideology is a backward concept, and far from liberating people is confining them to roles and rules.

And worse still, has been hijacked by MRAs who see this current fad as providing a platform that sanctions their misogyny.

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WaitingForMojo · 07/04/2024 22:49

GeorgeOrwellsTurningGrave · 06/04/2024 22:47

I see you. You exist. You don't have a fucking 🍆. Well done waves*.

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I’m a lesbian. Please don’t use me in your crusade. Standing by our trans sisters and brothers and non binaries, along with many other lesbians too.

Pebble21uk · 07/04/2024 22:43

It would have been Anne Lister's 233rd birthday this week! And while Gentleman Jack fell under the axe, a new feature film called 'Langton' is currently in development... billed as a 'Gothic retelling of Lister's life' and backed by Screen Australia.

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IwantToRetire · 07/04/2024 22:15

2mummies1baby · 07/04/2024 13:05

Some lovely posts on this thread. Thank you to all the lesbians who came before me who fought so hard for my rights- I have lived through Section 28 being repealed, civil partnership being legalised, same-sex marriage being legalised, and now am happily married to my wife with a 16-month-old daughter. We are both primary school teachers, and in the last few years all the kids we have taught have known we each have a wife. Wish I could tell all this to 9-year-old me!

Yes even with the seemingly endless denials by TRAs there are some things worth celebrating, and 16 year old me would have been surprised to see such a lovely true life story!

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2mummies1baby · 07/04/2024 13:06

Dancingontheedge · 07/04/2024 08:43

I’m not a lesbian, but as a vegetarian teenager in Oxford in the late 70s I became aware and supportive of the community linked with the Uhuru Collective in Cowley Rd. They ran a number of women’s support groups and activities, along with the wholefood shop.
https://www.cowleyroad.org/wiki/index.php?title=35
Lured by lentils, discovered a whole community I had no previous knowledge of

"Lured by lentils" 😂

That's how the lesbians get you!

2mummies1baby · 07/04/2024 13:05

Some lovely posts on this thread. Thank you to all the lesbians who came before me who fought so hard for my rights- I have lived through Section 28 being repealed, civil partnership being legalised, same-sex marriage being legalised, and now am happily married to my wife with a 16-month-old daughter. We are both primary school teachers, and in the last few years all the kids we have taught have known we each have a wife. Wish I could tell all this to 9-year-old me!

ChanelNo19EDT · 07/04/2024 08:49

Support to all lesbians being heard and not shouted down.

Dancingontheedge · 07/04/2024 08:43

I’m not a lesbian, but as a vegetarian teenager in Oxford in the late 70s I became aware and supportive of the community linked with the Uhuru Collective in Cowley Rd. They ran a number of women’s support groups and activities, along with the wholefood shop.
https://www.cowleyroad.org/wiki/index.php?title=35
Lured by lentils, discovered a whole community I had no previous knowledge of

35 - CowleyRoad.org

https://www.cowleyroad.org/wiki/index.php?title=35

SapphosRock · 07/04/2024 08:23

I have sent two emails to Brighton Pride from my local women's group asking for a place in the parade this year to march for lesbian visibility. Some of our members marched for lesbian visibility at the very first Pride. Would be great to be proud and visible lesbians in our home town. No reply yet.

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