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[–]barnarnasis this tv show my friend? 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

2021 promises a bumper year of LVW activities with a collaboration between DIVA magazine and Stonewall attracting sponsors including Proctor & Gamble, Tesco and TSB.

Of course it has sponsors.

Is it a week now? Also @ older lesbians when did the day start? Wikipedia says 2008 but there's no actual source. The amount of days and weeks dedicated to the trans is depressing, I don't recommend that wiki journey

[–]LeaveAmsgAfterBeep 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I suspect it started well after 2008. More like 2014+. A group of friends from tumblr were joking about how the wikipedia page that listed LGBT visibility days had no mention of lesbians until a couple of us spotted that, and decided it would be funny to message a popular queerio blog ls with fake whining about it. Within a couple weeks suddenly an entry existed for this day and a background was drafted for where it came from. Watching it come together on social media just pop out of no where was fascinating. Sure maybe it did actually start in 2008 in the UK. Or maybe that was a convenient way to hide the fact that there was no lesbian visibility day etc but a day for a bunch of groups like pan and various others.

[–]barnarnasis this tv show my friend? 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I actually did some digging after I asked that and I guess it originated in Spain? I couldn't go back past 2012 since all the resources were only in spanish. However, It looks like the day as it's currently known sprang into existence in 2015 and didn't start taking off until 2017 thanks to twitter and really took off when TRAs decided it needed to include "all women".