LGB Fight Back

LGB Fight Back is a multi-generational, US-based, grassroots organization of lesbian, gay, and bi people who advocate for the interests of the LGB community. We promote self-love and radical self-acceptance among homosexual and bisexual men and women, because we're perfect just the way we are. Find us at http://lgbfightback.org/

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Belissa Cohen of LGB Fight Back was expecting to join a protest against the management of Wi Spa but instead found herself ALONE in the middle of more than 200 transgenderists and SoCal Antifa activists! Thanks for having her on, Kellie-Jay.

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An LGB Fight Back Twitter follower has requested that we post the following urgent call to action:

"The U.S. Dept of Ed is taking comments for the next 3 days only (through 6/11), re: implementation of "anti-discrimination" policies in schools based on gender identity, pursuant to E.O. 13988. Email [email protected]. Aside from the obvious violation that de-segregating sex-segregated school bathrooms, locker rooms and sports poses for students of both sexes, I am very concerned that such policies based on gender identity will have a de-legitimizing effect upon the rights and dignity of LGB students."

For more info, see https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-educations-office-civil-rights-announces-virtual-public-hearing-gather-information-purpose-improving-enforcement-title-ix

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Watch LGB Fight Back destroy transgenderism --- LIVE on “Real Talk with Zuby” -- just like Zuby destroyed the UK women’s deadlift record in 2019!

TUNE IN --- #LGBTakeDown

5/20! @ 11 a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. BST

ZUBY: on Twitter

“I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019... So watch me DESTROY the British W

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Happy Lesbian Day of Visibility!

Today, LGB Fight Back celebrates out and proud lesbians! Enjoy the tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/LGBFightBack

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LGB Fight Back strikes again! Check out our no-nonsense interview with Benjamin Boyce! We call out transgenderism for what it is--anti-gay and anti-biological reality--and lay out strategies to combat the "trans" crazymaking. We say NO, and so can you!

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"If just one lesbian … finds out through me that one can be a lesbian and still be happy, that there is neither shame, nor anguish, nor despair in our condition, then I will have won my challenge."

Elula Perrin, Women Prefer Women

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! We hope all our lesbian, gay, and bisexual friends have had a wonderful day. Don’t forget to share your favorite LGB icons with us throughout the week, here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon. We will NOT allow our history to be revised or erased.

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This is Ruth Ellis, a lesbian activist. As a centenarian, she was still going strong: she led San Francisco’s dyke march on her 100th birthday! Ellis lived to 101 years old. She was a regular MichFest attendee, and her ashes were scattered at MichFest 2000.

Ellis and her partner Ceciline “Bebe” Franklin got together in the 1920s, and their relationship lasted over 30 years. Their house in Detroit, nicknamed “the gay spot,” was a haven for black gay couples who were unwelcome at black straight venues and white gay venues alike.

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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This is Barbara Gittings, who founded the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis in 1958. Her words to live by: “Gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too.”

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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Del Martin (right) and Phyllis Lyon (left), two of the founding members of the Daughters of Bilitis, got together in 1952. They were the first out lesbians to join the National Organization for Women in 1967, and were avid lesbian and women’s rights activists for their entire lives.

In 2008, they became the first same-sex couple to marry legally in San Francisco. Sadly, Martin died only months later. Their epic 56-year romance is an inspiration to lesbians and bisexual women everywhere.

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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Del Martin (far left) and Phyllis Lyon (far right) with Daughters of Bilitis members Josie, Jan, Marge, and Bev. We love to see happy lesbians hanging out together!

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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The first exclusively female gay rights org in the US was the Daughters of Bilitis, founded in 1955 by Rose Bamberger, Rosemary Sliepen, Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Noni Frey and her partner Mary, and Marcia Foster and her partner June. The Daughters of Bilitis described itself as “A Woman's Organization for the purpose of Promoting the Integration of the Homosexual into Society.”

Rose Bamberger, a Filipina-American woman, was the first to suggest founding a society for women in lesbian relationships. The first meeting of the DOB was held in her living room. If any pictures of her exist, we’d love to see them!

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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Audre Lorde’s activist work focused in particular on black women’s and lesbians’ rights. In her 1981 essay, “The Uses of Anger,” she wrote: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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Check out this gorgeous photoshoot of Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich with fellow writer Meridel Le Sueur in 1980. Lorde and Rich were lesbian poets, essayists, and women’s rights activists who had great respect for each other’s work.

Rich dedicated her poem “Hunger” to Lorde. The poem’s last line will ring true among lesbians until homophobia and misogyny end:

“Until we find each other, we are alone.”

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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In 1966, Dick Leitsch led the Mattachine Society’s “sip-in” protests, which defied NYC’s law against bars serving gay men. He drew his inspiration from the lunch counter sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.

Top: A bartender refuses service to Lietsch (center) at Julius’. Can you spot Craig Rodwell in this photo?

Bottom: Leitsch, Rodwell, and John Timmins, “sipping in” at Howard Johnson’s.

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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The Mattachine Society, founded in LA in 1950, was the first national gay rights organization in the US. The MS’ mission statement: "Mattachine holds it possible and desirable that a highly ethical homosexual culture emerge.”

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon

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This is June Jordan, one of LGB Fight Back’s favorite poets! Jordan was a bisexual Jamaican-American poet, essayist, and activist for women’s, LGB, and black rights.

Check out her stunning “Poem for Haruko,” to her female lover; and “Poem about My Rights”:

I am not wrong. Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own

Happy LGB Day of Visibility! Share your favorite LGB icons with us here and on Twitter, using the hashtags #LGBDayofVisibility #LGBIcon