Lesbians plus everyone else
There’s a lesbian visibility week? Who knew?!
DIVA is all worked up about it.
Who else is excited for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024? Taking place between 22 April – 28 April, next year’s celebration of the wonderful lesbian community and all LGBTQIA women and non-binary people is set to be bigger than ever. Therefore, DIVA needs some reinforcements!
Oh I see, so it’s not a lesbian visibility week, it’s a lesbians and some men visibility week. Kind of a different thing.
We are delighted to be bringing the legendary activist Nancy Kelley onto the DIVA team for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024. Nancy has spent her career campaigning for human rights and social justice on issues ranging from poverty and mental health to refugee protection. She served as the CEO of Stonewall between 2020-2023, working towards improving and defending LGBTQIA rights.
That is, working towards creating new unworkable “rights” for men who call themselves lesbians, at the expense of the rights of lesbians. Way to go, Nancy!
Nancy said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be working with Linda and team DIVA to make Lesbian Visibility Week 2024 the most joyful global celebration of LGBTQI women yet”
Wtf are LGBTQI women? And why is she swapping them in for lesbians? Lesbians are not gay men, they’re not trans, they don’t all identify as “queer,” and intersex is a different subject altogether.
So typical to claim to be promoting lesbian visibility by shoving lesbians aside in favor of men playing dress-up.
“Lesbian Visibility Week” is “L Visibility Week.” None of the other letters have anything to do with it. GBTQIA++ are right out. L are not “visible” if everybody else is getting in the way.
Speaking of “visibility,” as with everything in T-ideology world, T want everything both ways: they want “visibility,” (essentially wagging their dicks in everyone’s face) when THEY demand it, and “invisibility” when they demand it, too. That was on full display in the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Center case, when any employee’s or client’s trans status is a deep, dark, invisible secret, never to be revealed to a female rape victim who has the gall to not want a male counselor or to want a female-only support group. Yet, so much of the T enterprise is “look at ME, see ME, ME, ME, ME!!!” Never mind that we can see them; they’re not actually invisible. You can’t have it both ways.
To be perfectly fair, only the T, Q, and NB are getting in the way of the L. The G and B are off doing their own thing. The I mostly don’t want any part of it. They’re only thrown in so nobody can see the bait and switch that’s being perpetrated.
Since NB and Q are essentially meaningless, because they can be anything including a standard Leave it to Beaver heterosexual couple with two kids and a dog, it really is just the T getting in the way, and demanding everyone else look at them. It isn’t enough to have so many days, weeks, and months (and I understand, seasons) that are set aside for looking at T; they have to make sure they are part of everyone else’s days, weeks, or months, too.
They are serious about yucking our yum.
Well the G damn well is getting in the way when people insist on adding it to everything to do with lesbians. That’s not the fault of the G per se of course, but it’s still in the way. If I accidentally fall down on the sidewalk I’m in the way even though I didn’t intend to be.
Yeah, I guess that’s sort of what I mean. Everyone shoves the G into the way, but without the T, they probably wouldn’t be in the way.
On ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’:
‘Gay woman’ has been a synonym for ‘lesbian’ (noun) since at least the early seventies. ‘Lesbian’ in those days was a heavily stigmatised term and some women were uncomfortable with it. Others embraced it as challenging, and also as relating exclusively to female people; plus there is, of course, the valued connection with Sappho. Over time ‘lesbian’ came to be used more commonly but ‘gay woman’ has never disappeared. Moreover, while ‘gay’ as a substantive nearly always means a gay man, ‘gay people’ is often used to refer collectively to homosexual people of both sexes. And ‘anti-gay’, of course, also means, as a rule, opposed or hostile to lesbians as well as gay men.
Oh, and anyone who objects to my use of ‘homosexual’ on the spurious grounds that it is a derogatory term needs to look into lesbian and gay history, and specifically the life of Karl Maria Benkert aka Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882), an early activist for what we now call gay rights, who coined the word to replace pejoratives like ‘sodomite’.