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Staying Informed and Empowered: Recent Developments in LGBTQ+ Rights

 

There’s a shift happening.

You can feel it in the air, in the resistance, in the way our names are rising in places we were never meant to be mentioned. All across the globe, lesbian women are pushing through policies, pain, and silence just to be heard. While the headlines may try to bury us in data or fear, we are the living proof that we’re still here. We’re creating, loving, building and surviving.

 

Let’s talk about…

 

🇺🇸 Here at home-The U.S.

In America,it’s a mix of progress and pushback. One moment we’re seeing Queer women front and center in business, fashion, music and politics. The next, we’re being stripped of protections that we fought hard to win. We still live in a country where someone can lose their job, their safety, or their housing just for loving another woman depending on what state you’re in.

 

Yet we don’t stop.

We build, we protect one another and we create safe spaces. We create safe spaces online, in salons, in classrooms, in healing circles and in magazines like this one. That’s what Lez Rain was born from: Not perfection, but persistence.

 

 

🇨🇳Across the Ocean-China

Over in China, lesbian visibility is buried under state censorship and silence. Women are still creating content, writing stories, and falling in love but it’s happening in secret. Their love is real but the system doesn’t allow it to breathe.

 

Still they find ways.

They gather. They resist.

Sometimes the simply exist and in places like that , existance is resistance.

 

 

🌍Africa-They Beauty and the Battle

Africa is the motherland and yet s many of us are treated like strangers on her soil. From country to country, being a lesbian and being trans can mean risking your life. In some places even speaking your truth  can land you behind bars. I’ve personally seen videos of the abuse they experience just being who they are. They can’t even walk the streets and be who they are. Masc individuals aren’t safe and fem women are scared to even date masc women just because of these laws and these people who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a change and I will be apart of it. That’s not the whole story.

 

There are lesbian African women right now creating underground safe houses, launching digital magazines, mentoring young girls and speaking their truth to power. They are bold, they are Black and they are beautiful. They are us..

 

💡What this all means

 

This snot about politics this is personal.

It’s about the woman who has to walk past hate just to get to her classroom.

It’s about the teenager in a small village who’s falling in love for the first time that has no one to talk. To.

It’s about the elders who have been out longer than we’ve been alive and still have to fight to be acknowledged.

 

This magazine is for them.

It’s for you.

It’s for me.

 

When they refuse to make room for us, we build the whole damn table.

 

🗣️Let’s keep it Real….

*In America, be vocal, be visible ad protect your peace.

*In China, amplify the voices that don’t get airtime.

Show up for their stories.

*In Africa, support our sisters doing the work in silence and in danger.

*In the world, never stop creating what you wish existed.

 

We are more than hashtags.

More than side characters.

More than statistics.

 

We are love in motion. We are the storm and the calm after it.

 

So yes, the news may try to tell our story one way but Here at Lez rain Magazine, we write our own.