3 out, proud and visible lesbians defying anti-LGBTI climates | ILGA-Europe

3 out, proud and visible lesbians defying anti-LGBTI climates | ILGA-Europe

This Lesbian Visibility Day, we meet three activists in Europe and Central Asia who are out, proud and fighting the good fight, despite rising anti-LGBTI sentiment. Their stories, and the objects that symbolise their activism, show how lesbian visibility becomes a radical act of love, courage, and resistance. Today, in many places, being an out and proud lesbian is an act of resistance. It’s also a political stance for a future where every LGBTI…

For more than 140 days, civil society has been protesting in Tbilisi against the government and the new president Kavelashvili. Among the demonstrators there are also many activists who, in recent years, have had to face increasingly repressive laws