Lesbians United is declaring this May the first annual Lesbian Pride Month—31 days for lesbians to celebrate our culture, history, and community, to be PROUD of ourselves and all we’ve achieved. This month, Lesbians United is using our platform to honor historical lesbians from the U.S., who made important contributions in science, literature, politics, law, and more. Throughout U.S. history, lesbians have been productive and valuable members of society. We’ve also broken racial and sex-based barriers. The first American woman in space, the first black woman ordained as an Episcopal minister, and the first black woman to write a play produced on Broadway were all lesbians. The first woman named in Harvard’s course catalogue was a lesbian; the first woman to recieve an honorary degree from Yale was a lesbian. And of course, a black butch lesbian started the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which kicked off a lesbian and gay rights movement nationwide.
Thank you, sister lesbians, for announcing our OWN month and educating us and the world about our lesbian herstory! You are doing momentous work, reclaiming OUR community, including with your wonderful videos online.
I hope there will be no rainbow flags, as they and the so-called "LGBT" and its male-centric, marriage-centric politics have never represented my feminist, woman-centered, lesbian-centered politics and my sexual *preference* for women. (I'm not a fan of any flags or the use of flags and symbols, as herstory has shown us these can become problematic and dangerous, as we have seen with the rainbow flag now representing the wholesale erasure of lesbians and womyn.) I do not experience my preference as helplessly oriented. I passionately choose women! While many lesbians have, since the 1970s, claimed the term "orientation," as is their right, there are more lesbians than gays who consider their same-sex attraction something we choose or discover and unearth, stop repressing, and embrace. Admittedly, the word "choice" is rather simplistic for that experience. I wish there were another word. So the whole concept and experience of "orientation" is more reflective of gays as a community than lesbians as a community. I could never be with a man, only a woman, and happily so. And that is cause for recognition and celebration. I hope we will embrace and honor our diversity in this regard. I hope that rather than copy what gays and the so-called LGBT have done, we can have a practice of on-going conversations about our values, ethics, and experiences, and invent community/ies that reflect us as lesbians, as womyn. Thank you.
Fantastic initiative! As in 1969 so 2022! USA starts it and we are glad to follow on here in England! <3
#LesbianPrideMonth and #LesbianPride is fantastic news. Solidarity!
Thank you, sister lesbians, for announcing our OWN month and educating us and the world about our lesbian herstory! You are doing momentous work, reclaiming OUR community, including with your wonderful videos online.
I hope there will be no rainbow flags, as they and the so-called "LGBT" and its male-centric, marriage-centric politics have never represented my feminist, woman-centered, lesbian-centered politics and my sexual *preference* for women. (I'm not a fan of any flags or the use of flags and symbols, as herstory has shown us these can become problematic and dangerous, as we have seen with the rainbow flag now representing the wholesale erasure of lesbians and womyn.) I do not experience my preference as helplessly oriented. I passionately choose women! While many lesbians have, since the 1970s, claimed the term "orientation," as is their right, there are more lesbians than gays who consider their same-sex attraction something we choose or discover and unearth, stop repressing, and embrace. Admittedly, the word "choice" is rather simplistic for that experience. I wish there were another word. So the whole concept and experience of "orientation" is more reflective of gays as a community than lesbians as a community. I could never be with a man, only a woman, and happily so. And that is cause for recognition and celebration. I hope we will embrace and honor our diversity in this regard. I hope that rather than copy what gays and the so-called LGBT have done, we can have a practice of on-going conversations about our values, ethics, and experiences, and invent community/ies that reflect us as lesbians, as womyn. Thank you.