It’s Lesbian Visibility Week and media outlets are falling over themselves to highlight amazing queer women.


It’s Lesbian Visibility Week and media outlets are falling over themselves to highlight amazing queer women.

Rena Brannan, writer and executive producer, has drawn from her own lived experience as a singer/songwriter in Los Angeles in the 90’s to create SHUTTERS, a lesbian rock opera. Set against the backdrop of world events, the rock opera traces the lives of three lesbians over twenty years, from their humble idealistic beginnings to their naïve longing for the perfect relationship.

In the inaugural Legally Lesbians series, these 25 individuals write about their careers and why visibility is important to them.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly lesbian press secretary, hosted Ilene Chaiken, Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig and Leisha Hailey at Tuesday’s briefing

Wow women’s football is gay, and these moments gloriously celebrate it…

Recently the New York Times published a piece making the bold statement that “the lesbian bar isn’t dead.” Instead they continued, “It’s Pouring Orange Wine in Los Angeles.”
Yes that’s right, it seems that lesbians, well those on the east coast of the US at least, are enjoying a renaissance of lesbian culture. And long gone are the days of trashy underground bars with sticky floors, the lesbian bar of 2023 has far more sophisticated intentions.

Lesbian Visibility Week provides an opportunity to recognise the contributions of lesbian role models, and to celebrate the various intersecting identities of the lesbian community.