Openly anti-lesbian material on the shelves at Glasgow Women's Library as part of their new display of 'trans zines'. This one calls lesbians 'transphobes'. 'Lesbians are dying out' portrays lesbianism as a fear of penises, rather than a sexual orientation.

#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?

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.

We’ve posted before about the Oban Lesbian Weekend, a summer event which is run as a private commercial enterprise. Despite the name, the event is open to anyone identifying as ‘LGBTQI+ women or non binary people’. When we approached the organiser of OLW last year, we acknowledged that her commercial events can be for anyone she wishes, but asked her to consider that use of the word ‘lesbian’ is misleading for women genuinely looking for lesbian events.

Hi @kezdugdale, we're Lorraine and Jenny and we run this account. You won't have heard of us- we're a small, grassroots group of lesbians who are worried about what is happening in Scotland.
archive.vn/NiVFx We don't get invited to give evidence to committees, and our views are routinely ignored or misrepresented by government funded LGBTQI organisations. The Government has only been interested in hearing from groups who agree with it, which is no way to make good law.

A group of sociologists from Boston University is doing a study of ‘contemporary lesbian culture’. They’re using what they describe as a ‘broad’ definition of lesbian, to include ‘bi’ lesbians, ‘trans’ lesbians, and ‘lesbian men’. 1/ The inclusion of people who are not and cannot be lesbians in a study of lesbian culture devalues both the study and the experience of lesbians in an increasingly difficult and hostile environment. 2/