Political Lesbian Man Hating Heterophobe Radical Feminist
Challenging Compulsory Heterosexuality
Busy giving Feminism a bad name
Every woman can be a lesbian !
STOP FORCING SEXUALITIES ON PEOPLE AND STOP IMPLYING BEING GAY IS A CHOICE. 😩
Stop shouting and educate yourself
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/22/julie-bindel-i-m-a-lesbian-but-i-wasnt-born-this-way-video?CMP=share_btn_fb
Not all of us are born this way lesbians.
GET OVER IT
Hey looks.
A homophobe.
Hey look!
Misogyny!How is me calling out a homophobe who thinks sexuality is a choice misogynistic?
Denying women sexual agency is anti woman
Ok? Never said you didn’t have it. But spreading around the lie that sexuality is a choice is toxic, wrong, and 100% anti-lgbt.
Nope.
I am a political lesbian
I chose to become a lesbian
I am lesbian
Sorry the reality doesn’t fit your political agendaDo you also believe that men can become gay? Or that either gender can become bisexual?
Just want to know how deep the psychosis goes.
I wonder why when a woman disagrees with you and her life experience doesn’t fit your view of the world u have to be calling her crazy.
Never considered that your point of view may not b the only one?
Never consider that people can disagree with u and it doesn’t make the crazy
Never considered that you could actually be wrong?>Implying scientific evidence that sexuality isn’t a choice is just my opinion
Nice try. Also, you never answered the question. IF you can decide to be a lesbian, do you think men can choose to be gay or that either gender can choose to be bisexual?
Frankly i couldn’t care less if men do, can, or want to become gay, bisexual or whatever else.
I am a lesbian feminist. I have NO interest what so ever in men.Scientific evidence. Hmmm
Well if Male centric scientific evidence shall we say doesn’t describe or explain either my reality nor the reality of my lesbian feminist friends etc…
So it is not worth much of my attention either.>Male centric science
Full retard achieved.
Educate yourself
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/22/julie-bindel-i-m-a-lesbian-but-i-wasnt-born-this-way-video?CMP=share_btn_fb
Save a sister: what every woman should know: please tell your straight friends about political Lesbianism NOW!
Heartbreak is watching your friend continually going back to male abuse, no matter how you try to reason with her :(
So two ways I am going to take this:
Your female friend is being abused but you are using it as a means to slither into her panties
You got friendzoned and think if a girl isn’t eating you out she is being “abused"
Either way, you’re a horrible friend.
or being gay is a choice and the hyper conservative christians were right all along.
Educate yourself
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/apr/22/julie-bindel-i-m-a-lesbian-but-i-wasnt-born-this-way-video?CMP=share_btn_fb
Imagine being so obsessed with men that you try to make lesbianism be about how much you hate men instead of love between womenEvery woman can be a lesbian !
no they cant
Oh thanks for telling me about my own reality and that of my political lesbians sisters.
We have been wrong wrong wrong all this time!
So glad u were able to make us realise that!
I’ll sure pass the word and we’ll go back to heterosexuality and making sandwiches asap
Cant be grateful enoughhave fun with your delusions then
“Political lesbians” that’s so fucking gross
oh dear… you are wrong dumbass, you can’t just chose your sexuality. I’ve tried. If you don’t want to sleep with men, don’t. You don’t have to pretend you can just chose to be a lesbian and throw actual lesbians (and other LGBT people) under the bus by encouraging people to believe that we chose our sexuality. And if you think this is feminism, then you are no longer allowed to say that feminism is for everyone because your brand of feminism is clearly not looking out for me, a bisexual woman.
~ Mulan
Political lesbians are one things I hate on tumblr. You can discover your sexuality or change a label, I can even buy that someone’s sexuality may shift, but either way you don’t just choose who you are attracted to. You people are giving all LGBT a bad name and homophobes bullets for their guns (”you can choose to be gay! this girl there totally says so! so if it’s your choice and you complain about being discriminatred, then just stop being gay and all will be ok!”)
I feel icky
Sexuality is not a choice
Save a sister: what every woman should know: please tell your straight friends about political Lesbianism NOW!
Heartbreak is watching your friend continually going back to male abuse, no matter how you try to reason with her :(
So two ways I am going to take this:
Your female friend is being abused but you are using it as a means to slither into her panties
You got friendzoned and think if a girl isn’t eating you out she is being “abused"
Either way, you’re a horrible friend.
Thank you Julie Bindel <3
friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:
Imagine being so obsessed with men that you try to make lesbianism be about how much you hate men instead of love between womenEvery woman can be a lesbian !
no they cant
Oh thanks for telling me about my own reality and that of my political lesbians sisters.
We have been wrong wrong wrong all this time!
So glad u were able to make us realise that!
I’ll sure pass the word and we’ll go back to heterosexuality and making sandwiches asap
Cant be grateful enoughhave fun with your delusions then
“Political lesbians” that’s so fucking gross
oh dear… you are wrong dumbass, you can’t just chose your sexuality. I’ve tried. If you don’t want to sleep with men, don’t. You don’t have to pretend you can just chose to be a lesbian and throw actual lesbians (and other LGBT people) under the bus by encouraging people to believe that we chose our sexuality. And if you think this is feminism, then you are no longer allowed to say that feminism is for everyone because your brand of feminism is clearly not looking out for me, a bisexual woman.
~ Mulan
Political lesbians are one things I hate on tumblr. You can discover your sexuality or change a label, I can even buy that someone’s sexuality may shift, but either way you don’t just choose who you are attracted to. You people are giving all LGBT a bad name and homophobes bullets for their guns (”you can choose to be gay! this girl there totally says so! so if it’s your choice and you complain about being discriminatred, then just stop being gay and all will be ok!”)
I feel icky
Sexuality is not a choicepolitical lesbians, proving right-wing extremists right since the 1970s!
I feel disgusted that these people would politicize a sexuality that so many people fight to be taken seriously for.
DO YOU ALL WANT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MISOGYNISTS AND MISANDRISTS?
At least misogynists don’t fucking fetishise gay men and pretend to be gay and rob REAL LGBT+ people of all the hard work they’ve done to be taken seriously, just to make a sexuality about hating other people, not loving people the same gender as yourself.
Fuck you op. Fuck all the political lesbians. NONE OF YOU are welcome in our community.
Fetishise gay men? Who fetishise gay men? Not me i couldn’t give a shit about men, gay or otherwise.
I am a lesbian feminist.
Not everyone is obsessed with men!
Ffs
Not all of us are born this way lesbians.
GET OVER IT
Hey looks.
A homophobe.
Hey look!
Misogyny!How is me calling out a homophobe who thinks sexuality is a choice misogynistic?
Denying women sexual agency is anti woman
Ok? Never said you didn’t have it. But spreading around the lie that sexuality is a choice is toxic, wrong, and 100% anti-lgbt.
Nope.
I am a political lesbian
I chose to become a lesbian
I am lesbian
Sorry the reality doesn’t fit your political agendaDo you also believe that men can become gay? Or that either gender can become bisexual?
Just want to know how deep the psychosis goes.
I wonder why when a woman disagrees with you and her life experience doesn’t fit your view of the world u have to be calling her crazy.
Never considered that your point of view may not b the only one?
Never consider that people can disagree with u and it doesn’t make the crazy
Never considered that you could actually be wrong?>Implying scientific evidence that sexuality isn’t a choice is just my opinion
Nice try. Also, you never answered the question. IF you can decide to be a lesbian, do you think men can choose to be gay or that either gender can choose to be bisexual?
Frankly i couldn’t care less if men do, can, or want to become gay, bisexual or whatever else.
I am a lesbian feminist. I have NO interest what so ever in men.
Scientific evidence. Hmmm
Well if Male centric scientific evidence shall we say doesn’t describe or explain either my reality nor the reality of my lesbian feminist friends etc…
So it is not worth much of my attention either.
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Oh thanks for telling me about my own reality and that of my political lesbians sisters.We have been wrong wrong wrong all this time!So glad u were able to make us realise that!I’ll sure pass the word and we’ll go back to heterosexuality and making sandwiches asapCant be grateful enough
have fun with your delusions then
“Political lesbians” that’s so fucking gross
oh dear… you are wrong dumbass, you can’t just chose your sexuality. I’ve tried. If you don’t want to sleep with men, don’t. You don’t have to pretend you can just chose to be a lesbian and throw actual lesbians (and other LGBT people) under the bus by encouraging people to believe that we chose our sexuality. And if you think this is feminism, then you are no longer allowed to say that feminism is for everyone because your brand of feminism is clearly not looking out for me, a bisexual woman. ~ Mulan
Political lesbians are one things I hate on tumblr. You can discover your sexuality or change a label, I can even buy that someone’s sexuality may shift, but either way you don’t just choose who you are attracted to. You people are giving all LGBT a bad name and homophobes bullets for their guns (”you can choose to be gay! this girl there totally says so! so if it’s your choice and you complain about being discriminatred, then just stop being gay and all will be ok!”)
I feel ickySexuality is not a choice
Imagine being so obsessed with men that you try to make lesbianism be about how much you hate men instead of love between women
Do these miserable women not understand that they are invalidating decades of Gay Rights Activism and the inherent belief that sexuality is not a choice?What the fuck is wrong with them?
If you think that women are miserable if they don’t care about male activism and male misogynistic movements, than I have bad news for you…
I think women whose hatred of all men is so all-consuming that they would declare sexuality a choice and become lesbians just to make a point (and, while doing so, totally negate all of the work done to banish the homophobic notion that “people aren’t born gay”) are miserable.Hating men enough to scream “FUCK MEN, I’M GONNA BE A LESBIAN” is extremely obsessive behavior and does not speak well of the people who chose that path.Women like this are so caught up in the delusion that we live in a country where women are oppressed that they can’t even see how fucking privileged they are.The obnoxiousness of these women is fucking palpable.If you don’t care enough about men’s issues to help men out, whatever then, piss off so they can do their thing in peace.But kicking decades of Gay Rights Activism in the throat just to perpetuate the myth of female oppression and adding more fire to the “us vs them” mentality in this country?That’s the work of someone who doesn’t have the slightest idea on how to solve any of the issues we face today.That’s the work of someone who doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves and those who share their beliefs.That’s the work of a miserable excuse for a woman.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you the meaningless ramblings of a hardcore misogynist. Go cry in the corner, women-hater.
Wow… Okay…So…A. Raised solely by women.B. 3 years of living with a woman that I love.C. Daughter that I love more than life itselfD. Not a cishet male.Yeah… I’m totally a hardcore misogynist.OR.I think women who define themselves at a sexual level by how much they hate men are obsessive and irrational.The same way I think men that define themselves at a sexual level by how much “game” they have or how many notches on their bedposts they can get in a week are obsessive and irrational.The same way I think men and women who define themselves at any personal level by any external means are obsessive and irrational.
Not a cishet male? What are you then? Genderqueer bullshit? Than you are just more of a misogynist then I thought initially, lol. No, the fact that you’ve been a kind owner of your women doesn’t help your case. Get your male opinion elsewhere, women are not interested.
What the fuck are you on?Being raised by women isn’t “owning women”, it’s not having a father, having uninterested stepfathers, having a grandfather who worked 13 hours a day who was barely home, having another grandfather who barely spoke to anyone, and having another grandfather with Alzheimer’s who could barely dress himself.Being in a stable, loving relationship with a woman isn’t “owning women”, god damn it, it’s one of the biggest parts of being a lesbian.Having a female child isn’t “owning women” it’s fucking parenting, a natural part of human biology. The fuck am I supposed to do, in your world, when I decide I want to raise a child? Drop her off in the woods and let her survive on her own? Or maybe I just shouldn’t have had a child to begin with, huh? Are you completely detached from reality?Do you not understand how fucking delusional you sound?And If you took one look at anything I’ve written you’d know how stupid you sound about my gender. Every word of yours so far has done nothing but prove the irrationality of all-consuming misandry.
Ahaha is this for real, i leave tumbler 5 minutes and this happens!? So i ruin decades of gay activism? Me?AhahahaMaybe research a bit, less than 30 years ago political lesbians were the NORM. They also lead the lesbian and gay movement.LEAD. U hear?Political lesbians lead the feminist movement.Political lesbians were the one setting up rape crisis, refuge, women centres.It was understood that as a feminist you would become a lesbian. Again this was absolutely everywhere.All you 15 years old need a bit of perspective seriously.
15.Yes. Right. Try and double that to even get close.And no, political lesbians weren’t the NORM.They do not lead the movement.Take a brief stroll through the dozens of prominent gay rights activists in US history….. Lets see.Ctrl+V for luck.Kimball Allen (born 1982), writer, playwright, performer, author of Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon and Be Happy Be Mormon
Jacob Appel, New York City-based lawyer, advocate for reparations for gays and lesbians[48]Cliff Arnesen, bisexual rights activist.[49]Gilbert Baker, born 1951, designer of the Rainbow flag.[50]Christopher R. Barron, co-founder of GOProud, a political organization representing gay conservatives.
Vic Basile, first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1983-1989
Joseph F. Beam (1954–1989), Philadelphia-based journalist, author, and editor[51]Andy Bell, lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure.
Wayne Besen Founder of Truth Wins Out. Former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign.
Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1995-2004
Dustin Lance Black (born 1974), screenwriter, director, film, television producer, and founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[52]Chaz Bono (born 1969), transgender son of Sonny Bono and Cher.[53]David P. Brill (1955–1979), Boston-based journalist.[citation needed]Margarethe Cammermeyer (born 1942), former colonel in the Washington state National Guard whose coming out story was made into the 1995 movie Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close.[54][55]Ryan Cassata, American transgender activist, public speaker and singer-songwriter,[56]Madonna Louise Ciccone known as Madonna
(born 1958), entertainer and long-term human and civil rights activist.
Has offered outspoken support for the gay rights movement.[citation needed]Joanne Conte, transwoman, former Arvada, Colorado City Councilor, currently hosts a radio show on KGNU.[57]Lynn Conway (born 1938), transwoman computer scientist and electrical engineer.
Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), early bisexual-identified LGBT rights activist founder of the first American gay students’ organization,[58] first person to fight a discharge from the U.S. military for homosexuality,[53][59][60] Also an important figure in the modern bisexual rights movement.
Dallas S. Drake, (born 1960), first openly gay firefighter in Minnesota (1989);[61] co-founder of the MN Gay Homicide Study (1999), later renamed the Center for Homicide Research in 2004.[62][63][64]Fran Drescher, (born 1957, Flushing, New York) is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist.[65]Danielle Egnew
(born 1969), lesbian musician, actress, producer, and psychic who
endorsed and provided campaign materials to Virginia’s VoteNO campaign,
protecting the legalities of same-sex civil unions in Virginia—also
Spiritual leader and founder of The Church of the Open Christ, an
inclusive and progressive LGBT ministry.[citation needed]Steve Endean, (1948–1993), founder of the Human Rights Campaign Fund[66][67]Matt Foreman (born 1953), Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).[53]Barney Frank (born 1940), member of the Democratic Party who served as a member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013.[68][69]Aaron Fricke (born 1962), who successfully sued the Cumberland, Rhode Island school system in 1980 for the right to bring his boyfriend to the senior prom.[53]Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta known as Lady Gaga (born 1986), bisexual singer/songwriter who campaigned for the DADT repeal. Released pro-gay anthem “Born This Way” (2011).[70]Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), founder of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis who also pushed for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).[53]Neil Giuliano (born 1956), openly gay mayor of Tempe, Arizona (1994–2004) and current President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Chad Griffin (born 1973), president of the Human Rights Campaign as of June 11, 2012, and founder of American Foundation for Equal Rights, a nonprofit organization that supports the plaintiffs in the California Proposition 8 trial.[71][72][73][74]Jarrod Chlapowski (born 1982), Army veteran, DADT repeal activist, co-founder of the now defunct Servicemembers United, and former HRC lobbyist.[75]James Gruber (1928—2011), original member of the Mattachine Society.[76]Hardy Haberman, author, filmmaker, prominent member of the Leather/Fetish/BDSM community[77]David M. Hall, author of Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment, who speaks to corporate audiences across the country and is the co-founder of Out & Equal Philadelphia.[78]Harry Hay (1912–2002), co-founder of the Mattachine Society.[53]John Heilman Councilmember of West Hollywood from 1984–present.
Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), African American poet[79][80]Daniel Hernandez Jr.
(born 1990), member of Tucson’s city commission on gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender issues, who was credited with saving the life
of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords after the 2011 Tucson shooting.[81]Brenda Howard (1946–2005), bisexual-identified LGBT rights activist, an instrumental figure in the immediate post-Stonewall era in New York City.[44][53] Also an important figure in the modern bisexual rights movement.
Richard Isay
(1934-2012) psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist.
Responsible for ending discrimination against gay people by the American
Psychoanalytic Association. Wrote “Being Homosexual: Gay Men and their
Development”, widely considered a groundbreaking work.
Janet Jackson (born 1966), American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Cheryl Jacques (born 1962), former member of the Massachusetts State Legislature and the president of the Human Rights Campaign
from January through November 2004. She resigned from this post less
than a month after the passage of 11 state constitutional amendments
banning gay marriage.[82][83]Dale Jennings (1917–2000), co-founder of the Mattachine Society.[84][85]Cleve Jones (born 1954), conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and worked with Harvey Milk; co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation[86][87]Frank Kameny (1925–2011), participant in many gay rights rallies of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably the push in 1972–1973 for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).[53]Morris Kight (1919–2003), founder of Los Angeles’ Gay and Lesbian Front and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.[53]Lisa Kove (born 1958), Executive Director of the Department of Defense Federal Globe and President of Empowering Spirits Foundation.[88]Larry Kramer (born 1935), author and playwright who helped form the prominent gay rights organizations Gay Men’s Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).[53]Janice Langbehn
(born 1968), campaigner for marriage equality and same-sex hospital
visitation after being denied access to her dying partner, Lisa Marie
Pond, in 2007.[89]Cyndi Lauper (born 1953), founder of the True Colors Fund charity which promotes equality for members of the LGBT community.[90]Courtney Love
(born 1964), a musician and singer, has advocated for LGBT rights and
acceptance since the beginning of her career in the early 1990s.[91][92][93][94]Scott Long (born 1963), Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.[53]Phyllis Lyon (born 1924), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Del Martin.[95]Del Martin (1921–2008), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Phyllis Lyon.[95]Meghan McCain (born 1984) columnist, blogger and daughter of senator John McCain.
She has on several occasions expressed support for gay marriage, gay
adoption and for repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She posed for the NOH8
campaign with her mother Cindy McCain.
Tim McFeeley, former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1989-1995Harvey Milk (1930–1978), openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California who was assassinated (along with mayor George Moscone) in 1978 by Dan White.[44][53]Nathan Monk, former Russian Orthodox Priest who was excommunicated for defending and promoting marriage equality.
David Nelson (born 1962), founder of Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats,[96] and Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah.[97]Gavin Newsom (born 1967), heterosexual mayor of San Francisco, California
who directed his office to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples
in February 2004. This process was halted the next month by the
California Supreme Court.[98]Romaine Patterson (1978-), lesbian talk show host and founder of Angel Action.[99]Troy Perry (1940–), founder of UFMCC,
an international Protestant Christian denomination. The Fellowship has a
specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families
and communities.
Geena Rocero,
transgender model and advocate; founder of Gender Proud, an advocacy
and aid organization that stands up for the right of transgender people
all over the world.
Craig Rodwell
(1940–1993), gay rights activist; founder of first gay & lesbian
oriented bookshop in the United States; proposed and organized Annual Reminder; proposed and organized New York’s Gay Pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation day; was a founding member and organizer of Gay People In Christian Science.
Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), openly gay civil rights activist, principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; gay rights activist in later life[citation needed]Ryan Sallans (born 1979), out transman and public speaker - travels around the country educating high school and college students on LGBT issues.[100]José Sarria (born 1922 or 1923), first openly gay candidate for political office in the United States,[101] founder of the Imperial Court System.[102]Tully Satre (born 1989), blogger who gained fame in March 2006 for challenging then-Senator
Dan Savage (born 1964), columnist of Savage Love and author. Founder of the It Gets Better Project.
Josh Seefried, United States Air Force first lieutenant and co-director of OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military.
Michelangelo Signorile (born 1960), gay American writer and a US and Canadian national talk radio host.
Ruth Simpson (1926–2008), founder of the first lesbian community center. Former President of Daughters of Bilitis New York. Author of From the Closet to the Courts.[53]Joe Solmonese (born 1965), former political fundraiser and past president of the Human Rights Campaign.[citation needed]A. Latham Staples (born 1977), founder and Chairman of the Empowering Spirits Foundation, current President & CEO of EXUSMED,Inc.[103][104]Andy Thayer (Born 1960) is an American socialist and gay rights activist, and co-founder of the Gay Liberation NetworkUrvashi Vaid,
(born 1958, New Delhi, India) is an American activist who has worked
for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender persons.[53][105]Phill Wilson,
(born 1956, Chicago, IL), co-founder of the National Black Lesbian
& Gay Leadership Forum and founder of The Black AIDS Institute[106][107]Chely Wright,
(Born 1970, Wellsville, Kansas), First openly lesbian country music
singer. Focused on serving as a role model and mentor for children and
teens in order to reduce gay related suicides in children.
Not seeing a lot of political lesbians here…..In fact if you F3 search through the whole page for the words “political lesbian”, you don’t see it anywhere.You also don’t see it on the pages “LGBT” “LGBT History” “Let’s check elsewhere.Oooh.Here’s a list of the Top 20 Most Important LGBT Figures in History from The Bilerico Project, one of the top 10 most popular LGBT websites based on pageviews alone.The Top 20 LGBT Figures in History As voted on by readers and contributors of The Bilerico Project 1. Harvey Milk (1930-1978), one of the first openly gay people elected to public
office, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors 2. Alexander the Great
(356-323 B.C.), King of Macedon in Greece, creator of one of Ancient
History’s largest empires, and considered one of the most powerful
commanders ever3. Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), Civil rights leader, proponent of direct action, and activist for gay rights, pacifism, and socialism Voter Voice:
“Too often he’s reduced to the “organizer of the 1963 “I Have a Dream”
March on Washington which, while indeed miraculous in barely six months
(in pre Internet times), pales next to his decades of important
influence and example in the more militant black movement (too many are
unaware/forget that the NAACP was opposed to direct action when Rustin
and, later, King started out).” - Lt. Dan Choi4. Michelangelo (1475-1564), Renaissance-era artist, architect, poet, sculptor & engineer Voter Voice: “Anyone who can sculpt the statue David is truly a lover of the male body” - Bil Browning5. Alan Turing
(1912-1954), Computer scientists who served in World War II, broke the
Germans’ Engima Code, and was harassed by the British government for
being gay until he committed suicide in 1954. Voter Voice:
“In a remarkable historic rarity, the British government has formally
apologized for this. The Turing story is a fascinating one, including a
demonstration that LGBT people can excel not only in the arts and
humanities, but also the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics).” - A.J. Lopp6. Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519), The original “Renaissance Man,” painter, poet, sculptor,
engineer, architect, inventor, musician, writer, scientist &
botanist7. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, and journalist8. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States9. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet, writer & playwright Voter Voice:
“Literature is an important aspect of education, and a good
understanding of literature requires acknowledging the wide variety of
sexualities present among authors and how it informs/informed their
work. Wilde is a good example of this.” - Erika Kerr10. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer & poet, famous for writing honest and candid portrayals of lesbian relationships Voter Voice:
“Innovative and very influential force in the arts at a key time who
also lived unapologetically as a lesbian long, long before it was OK.
Strong is beautiful.” - Scott Wooledge11. Sylvia Rivera
(1951-2002), transgender activist, Stonewall leader, founding member of
the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, and
contributing member to the foundation of Street Transvestite Action
Revolutionaries12. The Stonewall Rioters (June
1969), The crowd comprised of drag queens, trans people and queer youth
joined together in one of the first - or at least most remembered -
episodes of the LGBT community fighting back against oppression, this
time from the police. Sparked the formation of key activism
organizations and galvanized the movement.13. Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon (1921-2008 and 1924 - ), founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, founders of The Ladder, a lesbian and feminist magazine, and first lesbian couple to join the National Organization for Women. Voter Voice: “What did they not do?” - Michael Maloney14. James Baldwin (1924-1987), essayist, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, & author of Giovanni’s Room15. Harry Hay
(1912-2002), labor advocate, teacher, and founder of the Mattachine
Society, one of the earliest and most influential gay advocacy
organizations16. Sappho (~630 BC - ~570 BC),
Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos, which many believe to
be the origin of the term “lesbian.”17. The Members of ACT UP
(1987), or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, was a direct action
advocacy group focused on improving the lives of people with AIDS and
demanding that the government and health organizations begin paying
attention. Voter Voice: The
organization provided the pressure needed to inspire real action in the
fight against HIV/AIDS. In the same spirit, we should recognize every
grassroots activist who spends their time, money, and energy to support
our rights without any expectation of public recognition.” - Rev. Emily Heath18. Christine Jorgensen: (1926-1989), one of the first publicly known people to have sex reassignment surgery19. Leonard Matlovich:
(1943-1988), a technical sergeant and Vietnam War veteran who received
the Purple Heart and was the first gay man to come out in the military
when he did so while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Voter Voice: When he appeared on the cover of Time, with the headline “I Am a Homosexual,” he “brought the issue of open service for the first time to the mainstream media.” - Jarrod Chlapowski20. Audre Lorde: (1934-1992), writer, activist & poet who wrote about race, gender, and sexualityHonorable Mentions: Names or moments suggested by multiple readers, commenters, or contributors:
Susan B. Anthony, Virginia M. Apuzzo, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy Carlos,
George Washington Carver, Professor Lynn Conaway, Quentin Crisp, Reed
Erickson, Barney Frank, Christopher Isherwood, King James I of England,
Frida Kahlo, Frank Kameny, The Lawrence v. Texas case, Eleanor
Roosevelt, William Shakespeare, Matthew Shepard, Socrates, Lou Sullivan,
Tennessee Williams, Virginia WoolfRead more at http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/the_top_20_most_important_lgbt_figures_in_history.php#SkfT3CwCIwOZCSoe.99The only one who comes close would be Rita Mae Brown who cofounded the Furies, a lesbian separatist group, after experiencing homophobia within the feminist movement including being fired from NOW for being a lesbian. But she was the third member to leave the collective.Then again, she wasn’t a political lesbian. She was politically active. She was a lesbian. But it wasn’t a choice she made to get away from men.Other than that? Not even close.Lets try again something different.- Let’s hit up the most viewed LGBT site on the internet, Advocate.com and use the search function to search “political lesbian”.- Results: Nothing in the last five years.- F3 search for “political lesbian“, “political lesbians”, “political lesbianism” on the entire “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics” spectrum on Wikipedia- Results: Not on the list.- F3 search “political lesbian“, “political lesbians”, “political lesbianism” on the entire “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History” spectrum.- Results: Not on the list.Political lesbian is, in truth, dogshit.The movement started at a time when we didn’t have cold, hard scientific evidence the heavily suggests if not outright proves that sexuality is not just a choice that you make. Unfortunately, in this day and age we have that evidence.
In 1993, the National Institute of Health’s Dean Hamer illustrated
that homosexuality might be inherited from the mother by her sons
through a specific region of the X chromosome (Xq28). Hamer demonstrated
this by noting that 33 out of 40 pairs of homosexual brothers whom he
studied showed the same variation in the tip of the chromosome.A June 2006 Canadian study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
said that nature, not nurture, explains the origins of homosexuality.
The study’s author, Prof. Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in
Ontario, explored the causes behind what is known as the fraternal birth
order. The research showed a correlation between the number of
biological older brothers a man has and his sexual orientation. Dividing
his sample of more than 900 heterosexual and homosexual men into four
groups, Bogaert examined the impact of all types of older brothers,
including step and adopted siblings, and the amount of time brothers
spent together while growing up. His research found that only the number
of biological brothers had an impact on sexuality, regardless of
whether the boys were raised together.
A study released in May 2006 by Swedish scientists demonstrated that
biology plays a key role in determining a person’ sexuality. The
research showed that the area of the brain that helps regulate sexuality
— the hypothalamus – reacted the exact same way in straight women and
gay men when exposed to male pheromones, which are chemicals designed to
provoke a behavior such as sexual arousal. The same area of the brain
only became stimulated in heterosexual men when introduced to female
pheromones.
In 2005, Dr. Brian Mustanski of the University of Illinois at Chicago published a study in the esteemed biomedical journal Human Genetics, claiming he identified three chromosomal regions linked to sexual orientation in men: 7q36, 8p12 and 10q26.
In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis
McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound,
lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, suggesting
they might be exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormones in
utero.
In 2003, University of Liverpool biologist John T. Manning found
that the lesbians whom he studied have a hand pattern that “resembles a
man’s more than a straight female.” Manning concluded from his study
that this “strongly tells us that female homosexuals have had higher
levels of exposure to testosterone before birth.”
A 1991 study by Dr. Simon LeVay found that a specific region of the
hypothalamus is twice as large in heterosexual men as it is in women or
gay men. This strongly points to the role of biology in sexual
orientation.
Another 1991 study by scientists Richard Pillard and John M. Bailey
studied homosexuality among brothers and found that 53 percent of
identical twins were both gay. In adoptive brothers, 11 percent were
both homosexual. Of non-twin biological siblings, 9 percent were gay.
Again, this points to solid evidence that homosexuality is a matter of
nature.
The June/July 2006 issue of Seed Magazine points out that at least 450 vertebrate species engage in homosexual behavior.(source: truthwinsout.org)The acceptance of evidence for the truth that people are born gay or born with dysphoria is one of the biggest goals of the LGBT movement. To undermine that by claiming you can choose to be a lesbian because you hate men is just plain wrong.The idea that sexuality is a choice is one of the main foundations of anti-gay prejudice.But I know you’re just gonna skip all of this proof of your idiocy and continue being someone so twisted by irrational hatred that you can’t be saved.Have fun. I, much like the vast majority of females and males, want nothing to do with someone so cartoonishly hateful that they could care less about the advances of scientific understanding of homosexuality, the entirety of human history, the Gay Rights Movement, and everything else as long as they feel like they are right.
If u think for one moment i am going to even read you “essay” up there, well keep dreaming.Maybe u should write a book u seem quite interested by the sound of your own voiceThe fact that gay men action are recorded there only proves lesbian erasure.I get my facts from actual women who were there and made this movement.U keep wikipedia dude. Its a male institution. Oh and the lesbian hand! That totally proves it! Are u fucking kidding ahahahI am sure u also believe there are such thing as a female and a male brain.And u probably call yourself a progressive.AhahU and all ur mates are so disrespectful as soon as a woman disagree with ur view point, arrogant to think ur views are the only oneAnd then u wonder why women hate men? Ahha
Where to begin . . Where to BEGIN.My great friend youmakemyteethitch has already shown how they have more than a handful of experiences relating to genuine Lesbians, and how they have seen true empowerment of women. So all I can do is try to respond to a few of these things.1. Gay men have faced as much discrimination in the Western world as women have. Believe it or not, in most civilized nations, women have won the rights they need, even at the cost of the rights of men ( Read : Any case of a man reporting domestic violence or rape) and as such that is why there is the LGBTQ, because you women believing other women SHOULD be Lesbians are no different from the people who gives Lesbians and gay men the lack of freedom of marriage and love. Which is to say, that entire community is facing harassment and to say “lesbian erasure” when most homosexuals tend to support their lesbian counterparts because THEY KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO NOT BE ALLOWED THEIR RIGHTS is very, VERY fucking moronic. It is why there is an ALLIANCE, it is why these people work TOGETHER. Having someone who can speak for everyone because he or she knows the the pain and drama is not erasure, it’s someone speaking from experience.2. As for the rest of it . . male and female brains are actually distinctively different, Wikipedia has its share of female admins who work to fix problems people like YOU perpetuate, and someone having a different opinion does not usually mean she is disrespectful. Your opinion, however, was disrespectful in how it throws out every thing that true homosexuals and lesbians have worked for, and you going so low as to completely throw out someone’s opinions without even justifying why you do makes you a disgusting example as to why coddled children should never be allowed to touch a keyboard.Also, most . . women don’t hate men for being men. They, y’know, aren’t pieces of shit who hate someone for their gender and tend to live a healthy life with a mix of both genders as friends and close loved-ones.
The first two line of the last post tell me all i need to know:MRA](http://40.media.tumblr.com/62690c4bffbe382e06a75c70a10dca1a/tumblr_nlmx9s0ciY1tsaxmno1_1280.jpg)
Imagine being so obsessed with men that you try to make lesbianism be about how much you hate men instead of love between womenEvery woman can be a lesbian !
no they cant
Oh thanks for telling me about my own reality and that of my political lesbians sisters.
We have been wrong wrong wrong all this time!
So glad u were able to make us realise that!
I’ll sure pass the word and we’ll go back to heterosexuality and making sandwiches asap
Cant be grateful enoughhave fun with your delusions then
“Political lesbians” that’s so fucking gross
oh dear… you are wrong dumbass, you can’t just chose your sexuality. I’ve tried. If you don’t want to sleep with men, don’t. You don’t have to pretend you can just chose to be a lesbian and throw actual lesbians (and other LGBT people) under the bus by encouraging people to believe that we chose our sexuality. And if you think this is feminism, then you are no longer allowed to say that feminism is for everyone because your brand of feminism is clearly not looking out for me, a bisexual woman.
~ Mulan
Political lesbians are one things I hate on tumblr. You can discover your sexuality or change a label, I can even buy that someone’s sexuality may shift, but either way you don’t just choose who you are attracted to. You people are giving all LGBT a bad name and homophobes bullets for their guns (”you can choose to be gay! this girl there totally says so! so if it’s your choice and you complain about being discriminatred, then just stop being gay and all will be ok!”)
I feel icky
Sexuality is not a choiceDo these miserable women not understand that they are invalidating decades of Gay Rights Activism and the inherent belief that sexuality is not a choice?
What the fuck is wrong with them?If you think that women are miserable if they don’t care about male activism and male misogynistic movements, than I have bad news for you…
I think women whose hatred of all men is so all-consuming that they would declare sexuality a choice and become lesbians just to make a point (and, while doing so, totally negate all of the work done to banish the homophobic notion that “people aren’t born gay”) are miserable.
Hating men enough to scream “FUCK MEN, I’M GONNA BE A LESBIAN” is extremely obsessive behavior and does not speak well of the people who chose that path.
Women like this are so caught up in the delusion that we live in a country where women are oppressed that they can’t even see how fucking privileged they are.
The obnoxiousness of these women is fucking palpable.
If you don’t care enough about men’s issues to help men out, whatever then, piss off so they can do their thing in peace.
But kicking decades of Gay Rights Activism in the throat just to perpetuate the myth of female oppression and adding more fire to the “us vs them” mentality in this country?
That’s the work of someone who doesn’t have the slightest idea on how to solve any of the issues we face today.
That’s the work of someone who doesn’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves and those who share their beliefs.
That’s the work of a miserable excuse for a woman.Ladies and gentlemen, may I present you the meaningless ramblings of a hardcore misogynist. Go cry in the corner, women-hater.
Wow…
Okay…
So…
A. Raised solely by women.
B. 3 years of living with a woman that I love.
C. Daughter that I love more than life itself
D. Not a cishet male.
Yeah… I’m totally a hardcore misogynist.
OR.
I think women who define themselves at a sexual level by how much they hate men are obsessive and irrational.
The same way I think men that define themselves at a sexual level by how much “game” they have or how many notches on their bedposts they can get in a week are obsessive and irrational.
The same way I think men and women who define themselves at any personal level by any external means are obsessive and irrational.Not a cishet male? What are you then? Genderqueer bullshit? Than you are just more of a misogynist then I thought initially, lol. No, the fact that you’ve been a kind owner of your women doesn’t help your case. Get your male opinion elsewhere, women are not interested.
What the fuck are you on?
Being raised by women isn’t “owning women”, it’s not having a father, having uninterested stepfathers, having a grandfather who worked 13 hours a day who was barely home, having another grandfather who barely spoke to anyone, and having another grandfather with Alzheimer’s who could barely dress himself.
Being in a stable, loving relationship with a woman isn’t “owning women”, god damn it, it’s one of the biggest parts of being a lesbian.
Having a female child isn’t “owning women” it’s fucking parenting, a natural part of human biology. The fuck am I supposed to do, in your world, when I decide I want to raise a child? Drop her off in the woods and let her survive on her own? Or maybe I just shouldn’t have had a child to begin with, huh?
Are you completely detached from reality?
Do you not understand how fucking delusional you sound?
And If you took one look at anything I’ve written you’d know how stupid you sound about my gender.
Every word of yours so far has done nothing but prove the irrationality of all-consuming misandry.Ahaha is this for real, i leave tumbler 5 minutes and this happens!?
So i ruin decades of gay activism? Me?
AhahahaMaybe research a bit, less than 30 years ago political lesbians were the NORM.
They also lead the lesbian and gay movement.
LEAD. U hear?
Political lesbians lead the feminist movement.
Political lesbians were the one setting up rape crisis, refuge, women centres.
It was understood that as a feminist you would become a lesbian. Again this was absolutely everywhere.All you 15 years old need a bit of perspective seriously.
15.
Yes. Right.
Try and double that to even get close.
And no, political lesbians weren’t the NORM.
They do not lead the movement.
Take a brief stroll through the dozens of prominent gay rights activists in US history….. Lets see.
Ctrl+V for luck.
Kimball Allen (born 1982), writer, playwright, performer, author of Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon and Be Happy Be Mormon
Jacob Appel, New York City-based lawyer, advocate for reparations for gays and lesbians[48]
Cliff Arnesen, bisexual rights activist.[49]
Gilbert Baker, born 1951, designer of the Rainbow flag.[50]
Christopher R. Barron, co-founder of GOProud, a political organization representing gay conservatives.
Vic Basile, first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1983-1989 Joseph F. Beam (1954–1989), Philadelphia-based journalist, author, and editor[51]Andy Bell, lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure.
Wayne Besen Founder of Truth Wins Out. Former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign.
Elizabeth Birch, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1995-2004
Dustin Lance Black (born 1974), screenwriter, director, film, television producer, and founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights.[52]
Chaz Bono (born 1969), transgender son of Sonny Bono and Cher.[53]
David P. Brill (1955–1979), Boston-based journalist.[citation needed]
Margarethe Cammermeyer (born 1942), former colonel in the Washington state National Guard whose coming out story was made into the 1995 movie Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close.[54][55]
Ryan Cassata, American transgender activist, public speaker and singer-songwriter,[56]
Madonna Louise Ciccone known as Madonna (born 1958), entertainer and long-term human and civil rights activist. Has offered outspoken support for the gay rights movement.[citation needed]
Joanne Conte, transwoman, former Arvada, Colorado City Councilor, currently hosts a radio show on KGNU.[57]
Lynn Conway (born 1938), transwoman computer scientist and electrical engineer. Stephen Donaldson (1946–1996), early bisexual-identified LGBT rights activist founder of the first American gay students’ organization,[58] first person to fight a discharge from the U.S. military for homosexuality,[53][59][60] Also an important figure in the modern bisexual rights movement.
Dallas S. Drake, (born 1960), first openly gay firefighter in Minnesota (1989);[61] co-founder of the MN Gay Homicide Study (1999), later renamed the Center for Homicide Research in 2004.[62][63][64]
Fran Drescher, (born 1957, Flushing, New York) is an outspoken healthcare advocate and LGBT rights activist.[65]
Danielle Egnew (born 1969), lesbian musician, actress, producer, and psychic who endorsed and provided campaign materials to Virginia’s VoteNO campaign, protecting the legalities of same-sex civil unions in Virginia—also Spiritual leader and founder of The Church of the Open Christ, an inclusive and progressive LGBT ministry.[citation needed]
Steve Endean, (1948–1993), founder of the Human Rights Campaign Fund[66][67]Matt Foreman (born 1953), Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF).[53]
Barney Frank (born 1940), member of the Democratic Party who served as a member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013.[68][69]
Aaron Fricke (born 1962), who successfully sued the Cumberland, Rhode Island school system in 1980 for the right to bring his boyfriend to the senior prom.[53]
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta known as Lady Gaga (born 1986), bisexual singer/songwriter who campaigned for the DADT repeal. Released pro-gay anthem “Born This Way” (2011).[70]
Barbara Gittings (1932–2007), founder of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis who also pushed for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).[53]
Neil Giuliano (born 1956), openly gay mayor of Tempe, Arizona (1994–2004) and current President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Chad Griffin (born 1973), president of the Human Rights Campaign as of June 11, 2012, and founder of American Foundation for Equal Rights, a nonprofit organization that supports the plaintiffs in the California Proposition 8 trial.[71][72][73][74]
Jarrod Chlapowski (born 1982), Army veteran, DADT repeal activist, co-founder of the now defunct Servicemembers United, and former HRC lobbyist.[75]
James Gruber (1928—2011), original member of the Mattachine Society.[76]
Hardy Haberman, author, filmmaker, prominent member of the Leather/Fetish/BDSM community[77]
David M. Hall, author of Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment, who speaks to corporate audiences across the country and is the co-founder of Out & Equal Philadelphia.[78]
Harry Hay (1912–2002), co-founder of the Mattachine Society.[53]
John Heilman Councilmember of West Hollywood from 1984–present.
Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), African American poet[79][80]
Daniel Hernandez Jr. (born 1990), member of Tucson’s city commission on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, who was credited with saving the life of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords after the 2011 Tucson shooting.[81]
Brenda Howard (1946–2005), bisexual-identified LGBT rights activist, an instrumental figure in the immediate post-Stonewall era in New York City.[44][53] Also an important figure in the modern bisexual rights movement.
Richard Isay (1934-2012) psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist. Responsible for ending discrimination against gay people by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Wrote “Being Homosexual: Gay Men and their Development”, widely considered a groundbreaking work.
Janet Jackson (born 1966), American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Cheryl Jacques (born 1962), former member of the Massachusetts State Legislature and the president of the Human Rights Campaign from January through November 2004. She resigned from this post less than a month after the passage of 11 state constitutional amendments banning gay marriage.[82][83]
Dale Jennings (1917–2000), co-founder of the Mattachine Society.[84][85]
Cleve Jones (born 1954), conceived the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and worked with Harvey Milk; co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation[86][87]
Frank Kameny (1925–2011), participant in many gay rights rallies of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably the push in 1972–1973 for the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).[53]
Morris Kight (1919–2003), founder of Los Angeles’ Gay and Lesbian Front and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.[53]
Lisa Kove (born 1958), Executive Director of the Department of Defense Federal Globe and President of Empowering Spirits Foundation.[88]
Larry Kramer (born 1935), author and playwright who helped form the prominent gay rights organizations Gay Men’s Health Crisis and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP).[53]
Janice Langbehn (born 1968), campaigner for marriage equality and same-sex hospital visitation after being denied access to her dying partner, Lisa Marie Pond, in 2007.[89]
Cyndi Lauper (born 1953), founder of the True Colors Fund charity which promotes equality for members of the LGBT community.[90]
Courtney Love (born 1964), a musician and singer, has advocated for LGBT rights and acceptance since the beginning of her career in the early 1990s.[91][92][93][94]
Scott Long (born 1963), Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.[53]
Phyllis Lyon (born 1924), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Del Martin.[95]
Del Martin (1921–2008), lesbian activist who co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis with longtime partner Phyllis Lyon.[95]
Meghan McCain (born 1984) columnist, blogger and daughter of senator John McCain. She has on several occasions expressed support for gay marriage, gay adoption and for repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. She posed for the NOH8 campaign with her mother Cindy McCain.
Tim McFeeley, former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, 1989-1995
Harvey Milk (1930–1978), openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California who was assassinated (along with mayor George Moscone) in 1978 by Dan White.[44][53]
Nathan Monk, former Russian Orthodox Priest who was excommunicated for defending and promoting marriage equality. David Nelson (born 1962), founder of Gay and Lesbian Utah Democrats,[96] and Stonewall Shooting Sports of Utah.[97]
Gavin Newsom (born 1967), heterosexual mayor of San Francisco, California who directed his office to issue wedding licenses to same-sex couples in February 2004. This process was halted the next month by the California Supreme Court.[98]
Romaine Patterson (1978-), lesbian talk show host and founder of Angel Action.[99]
Troy Perry (1940–), founder of UFMCC, an international Protestant Christian denomination. The Fellowship has a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families and communities.
Geena Rocero, transgender model and advocate; founder of Gender Proud, an advocacy and aid organization that stands up for the right of transgender people all over the world.
Craig Rodwell (1940–1993), gay rights activist; founder of first gay & lesbian oriented bookshop in the United States; proposed and organized Annual Reminder; proposed and organized New York’s Gay Pride march, then called Christopher Street Liberation day; was a founding member and organizer of Gay People In Christian Science. Bayard Rustin (1912–1987), openly gay civil rights activist, principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; gay rights activist in later life[citation needed]Ryan Sallans (born 1979), out transman and public speaker - travels around the country educating high school and college students on LGBT issues.[100]José Sarria (born 1922 or 1923), first openly gay candidate for political office in the United States,[101] founder of the Imperial Court System.[102]Tully Satre (born 1989), blogger who gained fame in March 2006 for challenging then-Senator Dan Savage (born 1964), columnist of Savage Love and author. Founder of the It Gets Better Project.
Josh Seefried, United States Air Force first lieutenant and co-director of OutServe, the association of actively serving LGBT military.
Michelangelo Signorile (born 1960), gay American writer and a US and Canadian national talk radio host.
Ruth Simpson (1926–2008), founder of the first lesbian community center. Former President of Daughters of Bilitis New York. Author of From the Closet to the Courts.[53]
Joe Solmonese (born 1965), former political fundraiser and past president of the Human Rights Campaign.[citation needed]
A. Latham Staples (born 1977), founder and Chairman of the Empowering Spirits Foundation, current President & CEO of EXUSMED,Inc.[103][104]
Andy Thayer (Born 1960) is an American socialist and gay rights activist, and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network
Urvashi Vaid, (born 1958, New Delhi, India) is an American activist who has worked for over 25 years promoting civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.[53][105]
Phill Wilson, (born 1956, Chicago, IL), co-founder of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum and founder of The Black AIDS Institute[106][107]
Chely Wright, (Born 1970, Wellsville, Kansas), First openly lesbian country music singer. Focused on serving as a role model and mentor for children and teens in order to reduce gay related suicides in children.
Not seeing a lot of political lesbians here…..
In fact if you F3 search through the whole page for the words “political lesbian”, you don’t see it anywhere.
You also don’t see it on the pages “LGBT” “LGBT History” “
Let’s check elsewhere.
Oooh.
Here’s a list of the Top 20 Most Important LGBT Figures in History from The Bilerico Project, one of the top 10 most popular LGBT websites based on pageviews alone.The Top 20 LGBT Figures in History As voted on by readers and contributors of The Bilerico Project
1. Harvey Milk (1930-1978), one of the first openly gay people elected to public office, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
2. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), King of Macedon in Greece, creator of one of Ancient History’s largest empires, and considered one of the most powerful commanders ever
3. Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), Civil rights leader, proponent of direct action, and activist for gay rights, pacifism, and socialism
Voter Voice: “Too often he’s reduced to the “organizer of the 1963 “I Have a Dream” March on Washington which, while indeed miraculous in barely six months (in pre Internet times), pales next to his decades of important influence and example in the more militant black movement (too many are unaware/forget that the NAACP was opposed to direct action when Rustin and, later, King started out).” - Lt. Dan Choi
4. Michelangelo (1475-1564), Renaissance-era artist, architect, poet, sculptor & engineer
Voter Voice: “Anyone who can sculpt the statue David is truly a lover of the male body” - Bil Browning
5. Alan Turing (1912-1954), Computer scientists who served in World War II, broke the Germans’ Engima Code, and was harassed by the British government for being gay until he committed suicide in 1954.
Voter Voice: “In a remarkable historic rarity, the British government has formally apologized for this. The Turing story is a fascinating one, including a demonstration that LGBT people can excel not only in the arts and humanities, but also the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).” - A.J. Lopp
6. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), The original “Renaissance Man,” painter, poet, sculptor, engineer, architect, inventor, musician, writer, scientist & botanist
7. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, essayist, and journalist
8. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President of the United States
9. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet, writer & playwright
Voter Voice: “Literature is an important aspect of education, and a good understanding of literature requires acknowledging the wide variety of sexualities present among authors and how it informs/informed their work. Wilde is a good example of this.” - Erika Kerr
10. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer & poet, famous for writing honest and candid portrayals of lesbian relationships
Voter Voice: “Innovative and very influential force in the arts at a key time who also lived unapologetically as a lesbian long, long before it was OK. Strong is beautiful.” - Scott Wooledge
11. Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002), transgender activist, Stonewall leader, founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, and contributing member to the foundation of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
12. The Stonewall Rioters (June 1969), The crowd comprised of drag queens, trans people and queer youth joined together in one of the first - or at least most remembered - episodes of the LGBT community fighting back against oppression, this time from the police. Sparked the formation of key activism organizations and galvanized the movement.
13. Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon (1921-2008 and 1924 - ), founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, founders of The Ladder, a lesbian and feminist magazine, and first lesbian couple to join the National Organization for Women.
Voter Voice: “What did they not do?” - Michael Maloney
14. James Baldwin (1924-1987), essayist, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, & author of Giovanni’s Room
15. Harry Hay (1912-2002), labor advocate, teacher, and founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the earliest and most influential gay advocacy organizations
16. Sappho (~630 BC - ~570 BC), Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos, which many believe to be the origin of the term “lesbian.”
17. The Members of ACT UP (1987), or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, was a direct action advocacy group focused on improving the lives of people with AIDS and demanding that the government and health organizations begin paying attention.
Voter Voice: The organization provided the pressure needed to inspire real action in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In the same spirit, we should recognize every grassroots activist who spends their time, money, and energy to support our rights without any expectation of public recognition.” - Rev. Emily Heath
18. Christine Jorgensen: (1926-1989), one of the first publicly known people to have sex reassignment surgery
19. Leonard Matlovich: (1943-1988), a technical sergeant and Vietnam War veteran who received the Purple Heart and was the first gay man to come out in the military when he did so while serving in the U.S. Air Force.
Voter Voice: When he appeared on the cover of Time, with the headline “I Am a Homosexual,” he “brought the issue of open service for the first time to the mainstream media.” - Jarrod Chlapowski
20. Audre Lorde: (1934-1992), writer, activist & poet who wrote about race, gender, and sexuality
Honorable Mentions: Names or moments suggested by multiple readers, commenters, or contributors:
Susan B. Anthony, Virginia M. Apuzzo, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy Carlos, George Washington Carver, Professor Lynn Conaway, Quentin Crisp, Reed Erickson, Barney Frank, Christopher Isherwood, King James I of England, Frida Kahlo, Frank Kameny, The Lawrence v. Texas case, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Shakespeare, Matthew Shepard, Socrates, Lou Sullivan, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf
Read more at http://www.bilerico.com/2011/08/the_top_20_most_important_lgbt_figures_in_history.php#SkfT3CwCIwOZCSoe.99
The only one who comes close would be Rita Mae Brown who cofounded the Furies, a lesbian separatist group, after experiencing homophobia within the feminist movement including being fired from NOW for being a lesbian. But she was the third member to leave the collective.
Then again, she wasn’t a political lesbian. She was politically active. She was a lesbian. But it wasn’t a choice she made to get away from men.
Other than that? Not even close.
Lets try again something different.
- Let’s hit up the most viewed LGBT site on the internet, Advocate.com and use the search function to search “political lesbian”.
- Results: Nothing in the last five years.
- F3 search for “political lesbian“, “political lesbians”, “political lesbianism” on the entire “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Topics” spectrum on Wikipedia
- Results: Not on the list.
- F3 search “political lesbian“, “political lesbians”, “political lesbianism” on the entire “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History” spectrum.
- Results: Not on the list.
Political lesbian is, in truth, dogshit.
The movement started at a time when we didn’t have cold, hard scientific evidence the heavily suggests if not outright proves that sexuality is not just a choice that you make. Unfortunately, in this day and age we have that evidence.
In 1993, the National Institute of Health’s Dean Hamer illustrated that homosexuality might be inherited from the mother by her sons through a specific region of the X chromosome (Xq28). Hamer demonstrated this by noting that 33 out of 40 pairs of homosexual brothers whom he studied showed the same variation in the tip of the chromosome.
A June 2006 Canadian study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said that nature, not nurture, explains the origins of homosexuality. The study’s author, Prof. Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in Ontario, explored the causes behind what is known as the fraternal birth order. The research showed a correlation between the number of biological older brothers a man has and his sexual orientation. Dividing his sample of more than 900 heterosexual and homosexual men into four groups, Bogaert examined the impact of all types of older brothers, including step and adopted siblings, and the amount of time brothers spent together while growing up. His research found that only the number of biological brothers had an impact on sexuality, regardless of whether the boys were raised together.
A study released in May 2006 by Swedish scientists demonstrated that biology plays a key role in determining a person’ sexuality. The research showed that the area of the brain that helps regulate sexuality — the hypothalamus – reacted the exact same way in straight women and gay men when exposed to male pheromones, which are chemicals designed to provoke a behavior such as sexual arousal. The same area of the brain only became stimulated in heterosexual men when introduced to female pheromones.
In 2005, Dr. Brian Mustanski of the University of Illinois at Chicago published a study in the esteemed biomedical journal Human Genetics, claiming he identified three chromosomal regions linked to sexual orientation in men: 7q36, 8p12 and 10q26.
In 2003, University of Texas psychoacoustics specialist Dennis McFadden found that when measuring the way the brain reacts to sound, lesbians fell in between heterosexual men and straight women, suggesting they might be exposed to higher than normal levels of male hormones in utero.
In 2003, University of Liverpool biologist John T. Manning found that the lesbians whom he studied have a hand pattern that “resembles a man’s more than a straight female.” Manning concluded from his study that this “strongly tells us that female homosexuals have had higher levels of exposure to testosterone before birth.”
A 1991 study by Dr. Simon LeVay found that a specific region of the hypothalamus is twice as large in heterosexual men as it is in women or gay men. This strongly points to the role of biology in sexual orientation.
Another 1991 study by scientists Richard Pillard and John M. Bailey studied homosexuality among brothers and found that 53 percent of identical twins were both gay. In adoptive brothers, 11 percent were both homosexual. Of non-twin biological siblings, 9 percent were gay. Again, this points to solid evidence that homosexuality is a matter of nature.
The June/July 2006 issue of Seed Magazine points out that at least 450 vertebrate species engage in homosexual behavior.
(source: truthwinsout.org)
The acceptance of evidence for the truth that people are born gay or born with dysphoria is one of the biggest goals of the LGBT movement. To undermine that by claiming you can choose to be a lesbian because you hate men is just plain wrong.
The idea that sexuality is a choice is one of the main foundations of anti-gay prejudice.
But I know you’re just gonna skip all of this proof of your idiocy and continue being someone so twisted by irrational hatred that you can’t be saved.
Have fun.
I, much like the vast majority of females and males, want nothing to do with someone so cartoonishly hateful that they could care less about the advances of scientific understanding of homosexuality, the entirety of human history, the Gay Rights Movement, and everything else as long as they feel like they are right.If u think for one moment i am going to even read you “essay” up there, well keep dreaming.
Maybe u should write a book u seem quite interested by the sound of your own voiceThe fact that gay men action are recorded there only proves lesbian erasure.
I get my facts from actual women who were there and made this movement.
U keep wikipedia dude. Its a male institution.Oh and the lesbian hand! That totally proves it! Are u fucking kidding ahahah
I am sure u also believe there are such thing as a female and a male brain.
And u probably call yourself a progressive.
AhahU and all ur mates are so disrespectful as soon as a woman disagree with ur view point, arrogant to think ur views are the only one
And then u wonder why women hate men? AhhaWhere to begin . . Where to BEGIN.
My great friend youmakemyteethitch has already shown how they have more than a handful of experiences relating to genuine Lesbians, and how they have seen true empowerment of women. So all I can do is try to respond to a few of these things.
1. Gay men have faced as much discrimination in the Western world as women have. Believe it or not, in most civilized nations, women have won the rights they need, even at the cost of the rights of men ( Read : Any case of a man reporting domestic violence or rape) and as such that is why there is the LGBTQ, because you women believing other women SHOULD be Lesbians are no different from the people who gives Lesbians and gay men the lack of freedom of marriage and love. Which is to say, that entire community is facing harassment and to say “lesbian erasure” when most homosexuals tend to support their lesbian counterparts because THEY KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO NOT BE ALLOWED THEIR RIGHTS is very, VERY fucking moronic. It is why there is an ALLIANCE, it is why these people work TOGETHER. Having someone who can speak for everyone because he or she knows the the pain and drama is not erasure, it’s someone speaking from experience.
2. As for the rest of it . . male and female brains are actually distinctively different, Wikipedia has its share of female admins who work to fix problems people like YOU perpetuate, and someone having a different opinion does not usually mean she is disrespectful. Your opinion, however, was disrespectful in how it throws out every thing that true homosexuals and lesbians have worked for, and you going so low as to completely throw out someone’s opinions without even justifying why you do makes you a disgusting example as to why coddled children should never be allowed to touch a keyboard.
Also, most . . women don’t hate men for being men. They, y’know, aren’t pieces of shit who hate someone for their gender and tend to live a healthy life with a mix of both genders as friends and close loved-ones.
The first two line of the last post tell me all i need to know:
MRA