Well, it’s been a pretty fucked up Lesbian Visibility Week in 2026. For example, we’ve had Linda Riley and Diva Magazine claiming they created Lesbian Visibility Week in 2020 for “all LGBTQ+ women.” Despite the fact that Lesbian Visibility Week was first recognised in 1990, in West Hollywood, USA.
Original organisers specified that Lesbian Visibility Week was only for lesbians, which means female homosexual. If you call anything “lesbian,” you ultimately refer to its real definition. Lesbian Visibility Week apparently now being for every person under the sun just makes us more invisible. It’s unsurprising, though, because women are socialised to show care by demolishing themselves. That’s why we’re the perfect prey for cults.
Cult victims must demolish any sense of individuality in the pursuit of a shared higher purpose. I could win an award for the fastest time reading a non-fiction account of someone growing up in a cult, and I’m a slow reader. Cults help me better understand growing up in a patriarchal society, a patriarchal family, and being a lesbian who’s threatened with excommunication from my own community if I don’t bow down to queer theory and its corrupt prophets.
Everyone is susceptible to falling for a cult. I am a difficult woman on purpose, to show I’m not easy prey. It’s a survival tactic. It works. Belonging to the tribe would be nice, but not at the price of myself. Out of respect for cult victims, I’ve always resisted publicly drawing parallels between the cults I research and everyday systems or groups. However, cult survivor and fellow difficult woman, Daniella Mestyanek, argues in her book The Culting of America that cults exist in the mundane world, and it does damage to de-normalise cults and cult-like thinking.
Lesbian visibility requires unambiguity; queer theory survives on dense obscurity. Like an abstract painting of a line on a canvas, we’re supposed to stand around it and wank over how special we are for “getting it.” There’s nothing to fucking get. Lesbianism isn’t “non-men loving non-men”, and it’s absolutely wild that nobody picks up on the misogyny of referring to women as the secondary sex. Or wilder, they don’t care. Meanwhile, the scientific word “female” is reacted to by “queer” people like you just told a Mormon they’re going to hell. We need the language of biology, animals, and sex to describe who we are as lesbians. Religion is often allergic to science.
“Queer” is a political ideology, or even a political religion, more than it is an accurate descriptor of anything remotely homosexual. It’s a heterosexual inside job. The LGBT got rebranded the slur “queer” – meaning abnormal and strange – without universal reclamation within the community, by some upper-crust academics with a god complex, too much funding, and not enough sense. Butler, I’m looking at you. Put the synonyms down. There is nothing wrong with ordinary words. But then again, if queer theory were written unambiguously, it’d be exposed for the nonsense it is rather than the revelations spoken in tongues that it’s treated as.
The purpose of “reclaiming queer” is to separate us from normality; to take pride in being “alien.” Cults isolate. The “queer” community is immediately suspicious of you, a lesbian, if you don’t follow the prophets of queer theory. If you suggest that maybe we aren’t alien freaks here to subvert everything we touch. The threat of excommunication looms, including from workplaces and educational institutions. You must keep your thoughts about it to yourself if you want any form of lesbian community. Or an education. Or a job.
“Queer” means including absolutely everyone who feels or looks like a freak. Too bad if you don’t find anything weird about your homosexuality; you’ve been forced into an entire set of politics against your will simply for being born a lesbian. You’re automatically “queer” because homosexuality is treated like a revolutionary choice to fight against all elements of society. Being born this way is somehow bigoted now. You can’t say lesbians don’t like dick, because that’s a million forms of -phobic. Cults, such as the Rajneesh Movement, often call outsiders “bigots” for no reason besides them being a threat. It influences insiders to see themselves as the righteous martyrs who are persecuted like Jesus was. It helps fend off any criticism. It’s all “fake news” – yes, the MAGA movement is cult-like, too.
In cults, sexual access to all members, including children but especially women, is essential in eroding individual boundaries. Worshipping a leader or an ideology fills the hole left. A lesbian’s own “community” telling her that she must be open to a penis, lest she be excommunicated for “TERF” crimes, increases the likelihood of her having unwanted sex to prove her holiness. Which is rape. Cults mostly rape through brainwashing, not force. The cult Children of God pressured women and children to “share” everything, including their bodies. For women and children to be godly, they must yield. The Free Love movement was extremely patriarchal in the way it convinced women to have no sexual boundaries whatsoever. The Children of God cult was a religious strand of Free Love.
We are supposed to “share” the word “lesbian” with bisexual women, too, because it’s “biphobic” for lesbians to have boundaries with them. Lesbians are told that “sexuality is fluid” by “queer” people. To them, we don’t have enough proof that we won’t wake up one morning liking men for female homosexuality to be its own category separate from bisexual women. By their logic, straight people should identify as “queer” because who knows what their future sexual attraction holds. No, heterosexuality is believed so certainly that “queer” is defined by being its Other.
There are bisexual women who pride themselves on being “more open” than lesbians for liking dick. They usually have issues with Gold Star lesbians. Lesbians who came out later in life, on the other hand, usually wish all lesbians were Gold Stars because nobody should have undesired sex, ever. Our lack of attraction to males is disbelieved by non-lesbians, so our lack of sex with them is viewed as “purity culture.” Gold Stars are viewed as virgins. Not very ~Free Love~ of us to be such a prude. Women can manipulate each other into sex with men by scolding them for not having it, too.
Rosie Turner couldn’t destroy Lesbian Visibility Week quickly enough by uploading a since-deleted reel on Instagram where she said it was alright to NOT be a lesbian. Being into men is, to her, evidence that she’s just a more “open person.” She still refuses to use the word bisexual. Bi women who knew they were attracted to men while identifying as lesbians see their passage to “open” bisexuality as a path of enlightenment. Unlike those old, stodgy lesbians who are so “closed-minded.” Again, ~Free Love~ is groovy, baby. Sexual boundaries are really uncool.
The only fluid sexual orientation is bisexuality. Queer theory erodes lesbians’ innate sexual boundaries by a) directly: influencing us to be sexually open with males, especially with the threat of excommunication if we express our fixed female homosexuality; and b) indirectly: bisexual women identifying as a lesbian encourages and participates in the homophobic belief that lesbians can be sexually attracted to the male body. We’re considered “mean” and “exclusionary” for standing up for ourselves and pointing this out.
Lesbians do not choose to be female homosexuals. As a teenager, I would have taken a pill to be male-attracted. Now, I wouldn’t. I feel blessed. I was born for it. For lesbianism. A female body innately, biologically rejecting a male one, is a threat to patriarchy. It’s a threat to cults. And it’s a threat to “queer.” Patriarchy, cults and queer theory are all motivated by heterocoercive, misogynistic control. I’ll go down swinging.
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