Lesbian Visibility Week
In calendars--both secular and church calendars--a person who looks at the calendars knows when the usual holidays roll around, as well as special holidays or holy days of the year. In a church calendar, we know Easter and Christmas, we also know when it is "Disability Sunday," or "One Great Hour of Sharing" Sunday. Such reminders remind us, for a few minutes or a day, of the specialness of the day, and more or less guide our thinking. In the world in which we live, in this country, we have Black History Month (February), along with Pride month (June). This week happens to be Lesbian Visibility Week. It was created by Linda Riley, a lesbian, and publisher of Diva Magazine. While it was once a "day," she thought that the L in LGBTQIA2S+ had become more marginalized. She writes, "I am a proud cis lesbian and a proud trans ally. But many in the LGBTQ+ community were beginning to equate cis lesbians with transphobia, which is fundamentally untrue. I wa...