Here Are 10 Things Diva Magazine's Linda Riley Wants You To Know
"It was getting to a point where when I met people from the trans community, and I introduced myself as a lesbian, they were looking at me suspiciously, thinking that I might be one of the transphobic brigade, and I began to realize that cis-lesbians in particular were getting stigmatized as being maybe transphobic when absolutely the majority is not."So, I wanted to showcase that although there are points that I agree with that lesbians need more visibility, it doesn't mean that we are somehow transphobic.
And that's the message that we're really getting out through Lesbian Visibility. You know, the joy of celebrating with the whole community is wonderful.""What I would ideally like to see is a global organization where we are all kind of one love and working together.
Everybody’s got different organizations. We sometimes sit back on our rights where we are, and don't look further enough from what's going on in other countries.
So I'd like to see more of that. Ideally, there should be one sort of umbrella organization that we can all work from, even though we all have different laws to fight."“My advice would be you're not alone.
