IGW is
proud to introduce publishers Tracey Stevens (left) and
Katherine Wunder (right), authors of How
To Be A Happy Lesbian: A Coming Out
Guide and owners of Amazing
Dreams Publishing.Tracey responded to IGW's request to reprint a special letter about the state of glbt readers, the book industry and...well, you'll see.
As
a community service for women coming out anywhere in the
world, authors Tracey Stevens and Katherine Wunder are offering their
book How To Be A Happy Lesbian: A
Coming Out Guide as a free downloadable 200 page Ebook.
After reading your article, "What do Lesbians Really Think About Gay Men?" I had a very long conversation with the man who is managing Alamo Square Book Distributors. Alamo Square is one of the few GLBT book distributors left in the US, and they are having huge financial issues because so many of our bookstores are closing around the country.
During the conversation it came up about how the GLBT community is just not unified in any way, shape, or form, and how this thing of judging people because they are gay men or lesbians, or transgendered lesbians, or transgendered gay men, or not butch enough, or too fem, or whatever we as GLBT are supposed to be on a given day, is what gives the government and the crazy fundamentalists power over us.
Until we are able to not judge each other and stand together and fight for our rights as human beings, why would we ever expect anyone outside of our own culture to to do anything any different?
If we spend our time being negative with comments like "Lipstick lez is so out." "He's such a queen!" "She's a big dyke!" we will never get the equal rights we deserve as tax paying citizens of this country.
Keeping our culture separate is the way to our own demise as far as our own rights and anything else goes. If we do not come together and fight for what is ours as human beings, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
I have been an out lesbian since the 1970s, and I have seen our community slowly deteriorating because deep inside some of us are actually buying what is being shoved down our throats in the media and from society. As a whole, gay people are not supporting each other, and our businesses are folding up and closing their doors. It is happening right before our eyes--our own extinction--our own being shoved back into a closet that was recently starting to open--and we are just standing here and letting it happen!
I don't want to be an alarmist here, but it was less than a lifetime ago when a very well known German man almost annihilated an entire race of people, along with thousands of GLBT people, because of very similar thinking. No one back then thought that anything so horrible could ever happen, but I sit here and watch the apathy of our community, and I think how we are just a few short steps to what happened just a few decades ago. The scary part is that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that this German man was a closet homosexual, and his own rage at himself is what caused the tragedy of the Holocaust to happen in the first place.
Terrified straight people talk about us having a Gay Agenda? What the heck is that, and where are these meetings? We can't even get together enough to have a pot luck, much less overturn the government and the sanctity of marriage!
WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER NOW! Until we do, there will be little change.
Sincerely,
Tracey Stevens
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