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🧵To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week as we head into the weekend, what do you plan on watching or reading?
Here’s some suggestions for books, films and TV.
Vote on our top choices or recommend your own!
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
Here’s some suggestions for books, films and TV.
Vote on our top choices or recommend your own!
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
What’s your favourite lesbian film?
Sexy, stylish crime thriller Bound (1996); warm, uplifting romcom But I’m a Cheerleader (1999); forbidden love in a Jewish Orthodox community, Disobedience (2017); Pariah, butch first love in Brooklyn (2011)? Or comment with a recommendation!
Sexy, stylish crime thriller Bound (1996); warm, uplifting romcom But I’m a Cheerleader (1999); forbidden love in a Jewish Orthodox community, Disobedience (2017); Pariah, butch first love in Brooklyn (2011)? Or comment with a recommendation!
What’s your favourite lesbian book?
Sassy historical tale Tipping the Velvet (1998); slow-burn coming-of-age story The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012); murder mystery Hen’s Teeth (1996); or the swordswoman fantasy set in ancient Britain, When Women Were Warriors (2008)?
Sassy historical tale Tipping the Velvet (1998); slow-burn coming-of-age story The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012); murder mystery Hen’s Teeth (1996); or the swordswoman fantasy set in ancient Britain, When Women Were Warriors (2008)?
#LesbianVisibilityWeek kicked off with the announcement by Just Like Us that 79% of lesbians in their study felt ashamed. With the caveat that we don’t know how the research was conducted or who was included as a young lesbian, this figure is really concerning. 
As lesbians and researchers, a result like this raises lots of questions for us. Are young lesbians ashamed of being part of a bigger ‘community’, or of being lesbian full stop? Which factors help account for this? What do these young lesbians need to improve their wellbeing?
Sadly, #LesbianVisibilityWeek isn’t going to provide any answers to these questions. A quick look at the official website for the week, lesbianvisibilityweek.com, informs us that the week is ‘powered by DIVA and Stonewall’.
DIVA magazine (which we can't tag as it blocks us) has released the results of its 2023 Survey. You can download a pdf of the report here: diva-magazine.com/2023/04/24/the…
In Linda Riley's introduction, she reminisces on the reason for DIVA's introduction in 1994. We remember the magazine from the late 1990s, and used to read it.
Fast forward to 2023, and in every age group who took part in the DIVA survey, the percentage of lesbians was below 50%. Across all age groups, 35% said they were lesbians, with 9% being asexual.
🧵 Yesterday Linda Riley, who owns what was once the UK's premier lesbian mag (now a platform for people who think men can be lesbians) and claims to have invented #LesbianVisibilityWeek, launched an attack on @jk_rowling for daring to praise black lesbian activist Allison Bailey
Linda's tweet has so far received 28k likes – 28k people (many of them men with beards or people with anime avatars who weren't born when that pic of Allison was taken) who think it's 'hateful' to celebrate a veteran campaigner for lesbian and gay rights in #lesbianvisibilityweek
Also yesterday, Owen Jones tweeted that 'transphobes' – by which he means people who think sex is real, gender ideology is harmful and lesbians and gays have the right to organise separately from the trans movement – should be banned from 'every lgbtq bar'
📽️ Did you know that the the first lesbian character appeared in a film almost a century ago?
👩❤️👩 Today, we're marking #LesbianVisibilityDay by looking back at some iconic sapphic moments in cinema and TV.
📺 Here's a brief history of lesbian visibility on screen. 🧵
👩❤️👩 Today, we're marking #LesbianVisibilityDay by looking back at some iconic sapphic moments in cinema and TV.
📺 Here's a brief history of lesbian visibility on screen. 🧵
🇩🇪 The 1929 German 'Pandora's Box' is considered the first film to have a lesbian character.
👩❤️💋👩 A year later, Marlene Dietrich was the first lead actress to kiss a woman in 'Morocco'.
🎞️ But 'Mädchen in Uniform' in 1931 is considered the first lesbian-themed movie.
👩❤️💋👩 A year later, Marlene Dietrich was the first lead actress to kiss a woman in 'Morocco'.
🎞️ But 'Mädchen in Uniform' in 1931 is considered the first lesbian-themed movie.
🚫 But then, in 1934, the Hays Code came into force. It banned any depiction of homosexuality in American films.
🔴 The guidelines effectively removed #LGBTQ+ people from screens everywhere, and any queerness had to be coded.
🔴 The guidelines effectively removed #LGBTQ+ people from screens everywhere, and any queerness had to be coded.
The media ought to report on the civil war in the lesbian and gay community. The woman who started #lesbianvisibilityweek says it's hateful to mention a particular lesbian activist who dared challenge Stonewall. @BluskyeAllison is the wrong kind of lesbian and must stay invisible
Whichever side you support in a conflict that has pitted lifelong friends against each other, it's newsworthy. Unfortunately it isn't being reported by embedded 'LGBTQ+' correspondents because they're tied to one side and have a vested interest in pretending the war doesn't exist
It would upset the business model (aka grift) of the bloated LGBTQ+ charity sector if they were forced to acknowledge that they don't, in fact, speak for a whole community, therefore they pretend this conflict doesn't exist and savagely suppress any dissent
THREAD: OLDEST LESBIAN EVENT IN GERMANY UNDER ATTACK ‼️
LFT (Lesbenfrühlingstreffen/Lesbian Spring Meeting) was founded over 40 years ago BY lesbians FOR lesbians. But now since men are not explicitly welcomed and worshipped, they want to destroy it. #LFT2021
LFT (Lesbenfrühlingstreffen/Lesbian Spring Meeting) was founded over 40 years ago BY lesbians FOR lesbians. But now since men are not explicitly welcomed and worshipped, they want to destroy it. #LFT2021
Lesbians in Germany have organized LFT every year since 1974 in a different city, each year with a different motto. The very first motto asked a radical question: "Feminism the Theory - Lesbianism the Practice?"
LFT was founded as a radical lesbian feminist event, and almost 200 women attended that first year. This year the orga team wants to return to those radical roots, hence the 2021 motto: "Rising to the Roots."
Lesbian identities are often difficult to uncover in the archive.
Unlike male homosexuality, sexual relationships between women were never criminalised, which led to less visibility. But their stories and experiences are awaiting discovery.
A thread for #LesbianVisibilityWeek
Unlike male homosexuality, sexual relationships between women were never criminalised, which led to less visibility. But their stories and experiences are awaiting discovery.
A thread for #LesbianVisibilityWeek
Our collection holds rich material relating to same sex relationships between women.
To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week, we thought we'd highlight some of our key records.
To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week, we thought we'd highlight some of our key records.
The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women who lived together in Wales, whose scandalous relationship attracted attention during the late 18th and early 19th century.
📷: Welcome Collection V0007359 - WikiCommons
📷: Welcome Collection V0007359 - WikiCommons
We are really disappointed to see prominent members of @WEP_UK use #LesbainVisibilityWeek to promote ideas such as 'cis lesbian'
@WEP_UK has agreed that 'cis' is an offensive & reductive term
WE say no to the homophobic erasure of #lesbians
No lesbian has a penis
#LVW21
@WEP_UK has agreed that 'cis' is an offensive & reductive term
WE say no to the homophobic erasure of #lesbians
No lesbian has a penis
#LVW21
Lesbian's are same sex attracted. In law this is described as an orientation. This is key as this embeds the idea that lesbianism is not a choice or a kink.
It is this terminology that has protected lesbians (in law) against conversion, punishment, shaming & corrective rape.
It is this terminology that has protected lesbians (in law) against conversion, punishment, shaming & corrective rape.
When #Stonewall changed their definition from 'same sex attracted' to 'same gender attracted' (to include males) this undermines the legal protections as listed above
Essential legal protections that #lesbians fought for 💔
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW21 #LesbianNotQueer #Dyke
Essential legal protections that #lesbians fought for 💔
#LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW21 #LesbianNotQueer #Dyke
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It’s #lesbianvisibilityweek and, as ever, I find myself thinking about how my visibility as a lesbian is so connected with that of many other women, especially butch women, lesbians of colour, transwomen who identify as lesbian, and non-binary people seen as lesbian.
I know and recognise that my ability to pass (should I ever wish to) is a product of my perceived distinction from those whose self-presentation puts them more immediately in a viewer’s definition of ‘lesbian’. The costs they bear can be considerable & I thank them for it.
The most important way, for me, to show my thanks is not to hide; not to retreat into the shadows offered by lazy and often homophobic and misogynistic constructions of dykey-ness. Happily my family and loved ones have never asked or expected me to.
