4/27/2021 It doesn’t feel like the we can raise our voices without being condemned. Even loud mouths like me feel silenced. And then feel bad for keeping quietRead Now Feels like a depressing time to be a lesbian. Thirty + years ago much of the world wasn’t too keen on us but we campaigned, formed alliances and lived and loved to the full as progress was made. These days it feels like we are going backwards. I’m in a progressive local group (almost certainly the only L and maybe the only G in it) where out of left field someone recently attacked JK Rowling and TERFS. It doesn’t feel like the we can raise our voices without being condemned. Even loud mouths like me feel silenced. And then feel bad for keeping quiet. But who wants to be bashed by those who know better than us mere lesbians or gay men. There’s such a rainbow of identities that we must respect and we know we will not be tolerated if we don’t show respect on their terms. If only we got the same respect. I’m not an identity, I am a lesbian.
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