Lesbian Visibility Day Celebrated on Social Media

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        Lesbian Visibility Day Celebrated on Social Media
    Lesbians took to Twitter to celebrate their identity.
 Daniel Reynolds
          
          Apr 26, 2019
          
        
Daniel Reynolds
Daniel Reynolds is the editor of social media for The Advocate. A native of New Jersey, he writes about entertainment, health, and politics.
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Today is Lesbian Visibility Day.
The day presents an opportunity to celebrate, love, and raise the visibility of lesbians, who, as the LGBTQ organization GLAAD reports, are still underrepresented on broadcast television. Many also still fall victim to the "Bury Your Gays" trope.
In the face of this media landscape and a federal administration that is working toward LGBTQ erasure, many lesbians took to Twitter to embrace their identity. See just a sampling below.
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        Becca Good attends memorial for wife Renee, offers statement: 'Renee always showed up'
    "You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know," Becca Good pointed out.
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Lesbians took to Twitter to celebrate their identity.

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"You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know," Becca Good pointed out.

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