What happened to the lesbians?

[ShelbyDawn57]

Definitely a lot of blowback going on today. Blowback grows with awareness. People fear what they don’t understand. I will offer, however, there are a ton more options for treatment and a lot more acceptance now than there was twenty years ago. I’ve been dealing with dysphoria for decades. IMO, it’s a lot easier to be trans(LGBTQ) today than it was when I was in my twenties.

Yes, trans is not lesbian. I can only speak from my frame of reference. From my gay friends, I understand the similarities are strong. After 29 years together, one of my friends was finally able to marry his partner a couple of years ago.

 

[gunhilltrain]

and she lives in an age where she can come out publicly with zero blowback.

What a time to be alive

Oh, you you mean Billie Eilish, not my daughter. Notable that if I look at my 1973 nigh school yearbook, I couldn't tell you the sexual orientation of a single person in there. Well, a few were obviously straight (or maybe bi-sexual?) because I knew who their partners were. Anything else, and they were deeply in the closet. Had it been ten years later, I probably could do a better job of it.

 

[Britva415]

a lot of people saying they are women are lying

 

[Britva415]

Zero blowback? Have you been reading the news lately? Gay pride festivities attacked, flags torn down, etc.

Two things:

First, spell out what that's got to do with Billie personally coming out. That was going on before she did. For her personally, the blowback has been zero, and it's because of progress - a "blow forward," if you will, thanks to actual activists who came before her.

Second, fifty years ago, there was only one Pride festivity in the whole world. The only people who were out were actual activists. Those were the pioneer times. If you don't think things are any better now than they were then, a "blow forward" if you will, I don't know how to have this conversation.

 

[Trionyx]

Two things:

First, spell out what that's got to do with Billie personally coming out. That was going on before she did. For her personally, the blowback has been zero, and it's because of progress - a "blow forward," if you will, thanks to actual activists who came before her.

Second, fifty years ago, there was only one Pride festivity in the whole world. The only people who were out were actual activists. Those were the pioneer times. If you don't think things are any better now than they were then, a "blow forward" if you will, I don't know how to have this conversation.

I'm not saying things aren't better, clearly they are. And apparently her coming out was relatively easy with 'zero blowback.' My point was that coming out and being openly gay can still result in hostility, aggression, attacks and, in some parts of the world, the death sentence.

A sampling of current and recent USA news headlines:

Federal agencies warn of possible threats to LGBTQ events, including Pride Month activities.
US issues global terror alert ahead of Pride Month, fearing attacks on LGBTQ+ community.
Colorado Republican Party issues call to burn all Pride flags.
Amidst right wing attacks, businesses pull back on Pride.

Britva415, I'm sure we are in agreement about the general issue of LGBTQ+ rights and I apologize if my comment was inappropriate for the discussion at hand.

 

[TheLobster]

This is Author's Hangout, not Politics Board. Seems like this simple fact gets forgotten sometimes.

 

[HelenL]

Fantastic new author just started posting in the category: https://www.literotica.com/authors/HelenL

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them. I'm a bit intimidated by the quality of the work already present.

 

[THBGato]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them. I'm a bit intimidated by the quality of the work already present.

Welcome to Lit! You've made a stunning start.

 

[StillStunned]

He-Goldberry

Goldbarry

 

[onehitwanda]

Seriously, you should send this poem to Netflix's top managers. Propose it as "LOTR as if Tolkien had not been an Olympic champion of misogyny."
Hey, I'm asking for a friend, is there a parody of the entire LOTR in gender bender form, with all the roles reversed?
A marginalized "male-Eowyn" squire, who falls in love with a heroic "She-Aragorn"?
Four barefoot girls, "only room mates," who shower together and get drunk on beer and then sleep in pairs in double beds in Tammy Bombadil's house, while He-Goldberry picks fruit and makes dinner?
A red she-dwarf riding off into the sunset behind a she-elf with long blond braids and very black eyebrows?
A mature City Stewardess with two daughters: both envious and quarrelsome but in the end, willing to make up in bed?
And what about the fight between She-Gandalf and She-Saruman, because the colors of her dress do not match the colors of the other? "Oh, my, Sary, how may you choose THIS against the White!?"

It could be called "Glamdalf's Rings"

it could feature Sarahgorn, the rugged Lucy-Lawless inspired ranger, and her trusty sidekick, the buxom and delectable Leggy Liz, whose breast-plate is always too tight. Their friend, the blunt-but-woke Glamli, could be the unwitting third wheel.

 

[StillStunned]

It could be called "Glamdalf's Rings"

it could feature Sarahgorn, the rugged Lucy-Lawless inspired ranger, and her trusty sidekick, the buxom and delectable Leggy Liz, whose breast-plate is always too tight. Their friend, the blunt-but-woke Glamli, could be the unwitting third wheel.

I'd leave Gimli male. He could be their beard.

 

[onehitwanda]

I'd leave Gimli male. He could be their beard.

Gimli gimli gimli a man after midnight

 

[StillStunned]

Gimli gimli gimli a man after midnight

But only if a lesbian doesn't get the job done before midnight, right?

 

[onehitwanda]

But only if a lesbian doesn't get the job done before midnight, right?

We don't respond well to time constraints. The job will be done when we say it's done.

 

[StillStunned]

We don't respond well to time constraints. The job will be done when we say it's done.

Is that why so many lesbians work in construction?

 

[onehitwanda]

Is that why so many lesbians work in construction?

Demolition, babe.

 

[StillStunned]

Demolition, babe.

That's just what you call it when you screw up the construction.

 

[yowser]

Lesbian construction:

Tongue-in-groove, no studs.

 

[THBGato]

Gimli gimli gimli a man after midnight

Sorry to go all serious, but the Spanish version (which Abba themselves recorded) is so much more Lesbian friendly:

Dame, dame, dame amor esta noche

(Literally: gimme, gimme, gimme, love tonight)

 

[onehitwanda]

Lesbian construction:

Tongue-in-groove, no studs.

I far, far prefer mortise and tenon. It gives a really nice, intimate, intense, strong...

err... what were we talking about again?

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

And now Abba shall play in my head for the rest of the day

 

[onehitwanda]

And now Abba shall play in my head for the rest of the day

You know you love it.

Voullez-vous...

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Another off-topic but does anyone have a clue what's with the server lag storyside? Comments and scores aren't showing up properly even if they were already up for hours. It's definitely not the usual lag/discrepancy between author's panel and the story page.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Voullez-vous...

 

[Areala-chan]

Another off-topic but does anyone have a clue what's with the server lag storyside? Comments and scores aren't showing up properly even if they were already up for hours. It's definitely not the usual lag/discrepancy between author's panel and the story page.

I've wondered that myself. I'll get a notification I've received a comment, then click on the link and it won't be visible on-site, but if I then click on the internal 'Comments' link to that story from the dashboard, it'll be right there. Hours, sometimes more than a day later, it'll be visible on the public comments area.