National Lesbian Visibility Day, community observances and resources
National Lesbian Visibility Day on April 26 featured candlelight vigils, readings, art shows and street markets across the United States. Albany’s Washington Park hosted the return of A Big Gay Market, and Provincetown wrapped Lesbian Visibility Week with performances, exhibitions and community gatherings. Writers and organizers published essays, reading lists and resource guides that celebrate lesbian lives while highlighting gaps in health care, social services and legal recognition. Those events and resources aim to strengthen community connections and pressure policymakers and providers to close service gaps and expand cultural recognition.
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Happy Lesbian Visibility Day, everyone! 🧡🧡🤍🩷❤️ Do you have any lesbian characters? Please share them with me today! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻35Liz from #AnthropomorphicNovel is a lesbian. She doesn't reveal this until later into the series as she is very guarded and does not discuss her personal life. However, eventually we will meet her fiancée when she needs help getting her out of a...jam.
Hope Engel 📚9Iris, the MC's best friend, is an out and proud lesbian! She is a biology major, pescetarian, likes kickboxing, watching football, a little bit of a Swiftie but also big fan of Chappell Roan, the only man she has a soft spot for is her team's quarterback, and she's 5'1.
Alina Lee, Yurisaurus Regina7I point to my body of work in general, so many lesbians! But to go with current WIPs, Pimi is definitely a lesbian, and she's married to a kinda sorta maybe a lesbian Kessa, and their other woman Irina is definitely bi. Rowan is an ace lesbian. As was her [redacted] and her future [redacted].
Amanda Turek 💎 Writing Rushak5#AwesomeCharacters Thea, Jer’s ostensible tivenel, might actually be lesbian. Jer’s certainly ace. IDK when Thea’s gonna figure herself out or when they’ll open up to each other-there’s not much room & Thea’s a minor character-but they don’t stay together. Maybe Thea’s girlfriend will punch Jer out!
ChainsawMochi (Art Commissions Open!)5Yes! Ivy is a lesbian, and by the end of the novel, is in a relationship with June (who is bi but tends to prefer women). I like to think that they eventually adopt a few kids together, once Ivy gains control of her werewolf side.
Carolina | Looking for feedback4No lesbians, but there is a wlw scene 👀
MidnightRose Artist4Not to my knowledge. I have female characters who bond closely to other female characters, but as far as I know non of them are lesbian. Karvaris & Vaildameena end up living together like family, sharing a single room & single bed, but I think they are both ace. Vail wants to have a baby though, -
Renee Dahlia4I'm currently writing a sapphic historical series where five of the six women are lesbians and the other is bisexual. Verity is a 'bruising rider' who excels in training horses, Winsome much prefers to read books. Joy is a blacksmith in a small village, Hope is an eldest daughter who likes rules.
🏳️🌈RJ Martin - Queer. Cat Parent. Author.4*gestures broadly at every MC I've ever written*
Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author.4I mean, one of my elevator pitches for my book is "What if D'Artagnan was a sword lesbian with a giant robot?" This is most apparent in a prequel short story to the main books-- which happens to be available for free to anybody who joins my mailing list!
Dan Sato4I have a lesbian couple in my #FrankMatsura novel, but my 1901 protagonist doesn't see their relationship for what it is, nor did anyone else in that little country town. I believe my readers will see what he does not.
Omega Lairon3I don't have anyone who's *strictly* lesbian, but Meg is an equal opportunity lover. Man, woman, enby, agender, and any other way you want to identify (as long as you're a human of legal consenting age in sound mind of course!), it's all good.
Mark Johnston 🍁3I include at least one lgbtq character in each of my stories. I always do it casually. I do this for visibility and for my students who might be in this community. My current ya fantasy series has a lesbian couple who are awesome. 🌈
Andee Harry3Happy Lesbian Visibility Day. Are there lesbians in my story. Currently no, but they are in the world somewhere. They are part of the Cumae (Come here) Aesthrie Astri Pride Festival Parade a while back where everyone was full of colour.
David Wesley Woolverton2I have nine who would apply the term to themselves: Nasrin, Julrane, Isabelle, Lorelai, Nikki, Wynona, Agnes, Lisa, and Desdemona. Nearly all my lady characters are some shade of sapphic, but these are all the ones who are strictly lesbian.
Pallro the friendly fire dragon2Rebelda Heart SATN’s nighttime broadcaster She hosts her own radio show called Late Night with a Sucubus, where demons call in to ask her for advise.
S. Daniel McPhail2Kimber Marie Brightshadow is one of the two leads in my WIP, the last living student of a legendary master, seen as a legend by most of her people and feels honor bound to live up to their expectations. As you might imagine, this makes a love life a bit difficult. (Art by @aestraya.bsky.social)
Keegan Peter 🏳️⚧️2April is my lesbian. I have a lot of other sapphic characters but not a lot of lesbians yet.
R.W. Meadors2We do! In our next book, we meet Ana, very secure in her attraction to women, and Stevie just waking up to her own. It’s not the largest part of the story, but it is very much there and impacting the characters as the larger story is taking place.
