Comments on: Get ready for ‘Black Tie Elevator’: Interview with Lucas Silveira of The Cliks https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/ Connecting lesbians worldwide Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carolyn in Baltimore https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3353 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:12:12 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3353 LGBTQWTF – I want organizations and media that highlight otr feature or present themselves as Lesbian – to focus on Lesbian. We already have LGBTQWTF organizations ignoring lesbian issues (and womens’ issues) unless they are trans issues. We have the NCLR ( a formerly lesbian rights organization) now focused on trans kids.

There once was a vibrant lesbian culture, which has been subsumed by the cult of gender.

This article – talks about Leroy as a man (mentions once he is trans) and does not mention woman or lesbian issues in the entire rest of the article. Of what interest is there to women-loving-women? I sure cannot figure it out.

I agree with the other commenters here – get it together and build lesbian culture, or you are just making Lesbian.com totally irrelevant to your intended audience.

]]> By: Om Kalthoum https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3346 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:13:14 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3346 “…we do sometimes feature allies and others in the broader LGBTQ spectrum.”

Then I would suggest that you consider changing your name to LGBTQandAllies.com. Or PrettyMuchAnything.com.

Your interviewer, Sid, informs his(?) readers that Lucas Silveira’s new album “goes a whole new, sexy direction.” I am curious what demographic you think finds it sexy?

Check out your tagline for LESBIAN.com at the foot of this page: “strives to bring together the best and brightest of the lesbian world for the empowerment and benefit of lesbians worldwide. That’s a great concept! I hope you’ll try harder to honor it in the future.

]]> By: Editor https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3339 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:36:50 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3339 While the bulk of Lesbian.com is dedicated to featuring lesbians (as well as bisexual and queer women), we do sometimes feature allies and others in the broader LGBTQ spectrum — especially if they have big lesbian fan bases (like The Cliks do!)

Check out our Interviews and Entertainment pages for features on fantastic lesbian/queer musicians, writers, performers, filmmakers, entrepreneurs and more!

]]> By: Avery https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3338 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:25:39 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3338 How about lesbian visibility? We already see straight dudes everywhere.

]]> By: JRo https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3334 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:07:15 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3334 Why are you featuring a straight guy (nothing against him or his music) when so many women and lesbians get short shrift in music and media??? Isn’t part of why this site was created was to feature actual lesbians?

Lucas really should have manned up and said that perhaps you should feature a lesbian musician on lesbian.com…because he isn’t one.

Seriously, if you transition, you transition out of the lesbian community too, and need to embrace ally status.

]]> By: tallon https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3332 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:08:57 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3332 I thought this was lesbian.com, I must be confused, ‘cos there’s a dude being featured, or is it that there are no more spaces for men (and transguys), that they must now occupy lesbian spaces as well?

]]> By: nefarious https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3331 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:32:14 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3331 I love the Cliks and support Lucas and all but aren’t there any lesbian musicians to interview and feature on Lesbian.com? It just seems like somewhere there might be a lesbian artist or musician who is awesome and needs the exposure. Lucas is a man and not a lesbian. It just seems like a ripoff to lesbians to have to push over for men, I mean men get featured more in most every other forum, you know?

]]> By: Emma Hamer https://www.lesbian.com/get-ready-for-black-tie-elevator-interview-with-lucas-silveira-of-the-cliks/#comment-3330 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:21:36 +0000 http://www.lesbian.com/?p=11033#comment-3330 Why are you featuring a musician who “identifies” as male on a lesbian site? What is it about the slippery slope that is trans*activism that you folks at Lesbian.com don’t get? As a lesbian, I want to read about female lesbian artists here – not about trans*folk. Either they were NOT raised as girls and women, but appropriate women’s and lesbian’s culture, or they WERE raised as girls and women, and reject women’s and lesbian’s culture. Either way, by highlighting the trans*, you’re contributing to the erasure of lesbians – the original gender-non-conforming females.

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