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[–]ShotTopic 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

It was founded by someone who later realized she was bisexual. She took herself off the sub because she didn't think she should lead a lesbian sub as a bisexual.

Other mods came and went, including some who left and founded LesbianActually. Freya and Molly (current head mods) were once suspended by former mods. There have been repeated calls for them to resign over the years. Freya is trans, Molly is more vocal of the two, and they're dating / have dated.

When the sub went private a year (or less?) ago they added like a dozen new mods upon reopening, most of whom are trans.

Quick edit: it's important to note a mod can only be removed by someone with longer tenure than them. LA mods were once asked by members to come back to AL, but they refused unless Freya and Molly stepped down.

2nd edit: someone linked below the thread discussing Freya and Molly's suspension. It's pretty old now so if there are deleted comments you can change your URL from reddit to removeddit to see them.

3rd edit: thread about Freya and Molly dating https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/1jdqba/an_introduction/

Thread about the straight male mod situation. AndyWarwheels is one of the mods who left AL to found LA https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/4v2zml/potential_change_in_leadership/

If you change the url from reddit to removeddit you may be able to recover a few deleted (blue) or removed (red) comments.

[–][deleted] 34 insightful - 2 fun34 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I miss the days when non-lesbians felt like they were morally obligated to respect lesbian spaces and not try to keep a label that was not a good fit for them

[–]ShotTopic 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

There was even a straight male mod for a while. He primarily helped with CSS stuff in the background because he had a lot of mod experience the others didn't. But after a bunch of mods abandoned ship to create LA it inadvertently left him in charge.

People found out, he asked users what they wanted to do because he didn't want to just abandon AL without leadership People asked for a full mod reelection, including wanting Freya and Molly to step down. Straight guy left but Freya and Molly refused to step down.

Edit: thread about the straight guy https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/4v2zml/potential_change_in_leadership/

[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

Those two sound like real jems.

[–]ShotTopic 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Oh also, Molly at one point told another user "kys" around the time the sub went private. After it opened back up a bunch of people wanted the mods to address it and their comments kept getting removed.

Here's a couple top comments that got left up discussing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/deo3a4/were_back_and_better_than_ever/f2xam7b/

https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/deo3a4/were_back_and_better_than_ever/f2xifbh/

You'll need to edit the reddit URL to "removeddit" to see some of the deleted/removed comments.

[–]yousaythosethings 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wow. Supporters of Molly calling those who called into question telling a user to kill herself “over-sensitive” when acknowledgements of biological sex and homosexuality see considered literal violence/resulting in murder apparently,

[–]windrunner 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish that sub and their mods could be massively exposed without censorship so people can see what they truly are

[–]mangofruit 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I loved that drama. Watching everyone trying to cover up for Molly was fantastically awful.