About The Site
This Website's Goal = LESBIAN: RESPECT, PRIDE & LOVE.
This site is a labour of love that I created (and hand-coded in HTML, researched, and wrote) during UK COVID Furloughs. Hands-up: I was really lonely during COVID. This site was created for lesbians and bi women across the WORLD who may feel sometimes the blues / loneliness, and are still experiencing homophobia, AND to demonstrate to them and HETTIES (straights) that throughout history, lesbians and bi's have importantly contributed to HUMANITY (e.g. medical care, the arts, sciences ...).
"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency" Benjamin Mays
We should never forget the women who fought in the past for lesbian and women's rights. Alas, the struggle continues. Let's work TOGETHER, to help & nurture each other.
This site will grow and evolve - please do come back.
Website Caveats + A Sweet Request For Assistance :)
Though I have mentioned this on other pages, do please forgive me, for genuine:
- Duh, Blunders & Errors - I hold my hands-up high in SHAME for any unintentional blunders, mistakes, errors ... Some blunders are due to accidental copy & pastes as this is a hand-coded HTML site while others may be research errors (I collate data from the WWW). I will be truly grateful if you email me, to politely point out, any errors which I will gladly correct.
- Global Girl Friends of Dorothy - I genuinely appreciate ALL lesbians across the world. I'm so grateful, I was born from parents of two nationalities and also, lived abroad for a while. F**K nightmare Brexit! (NB The bonnie fab Scots (and I), didn't vote Brexit). Please forgive me - I've worked so hard to try and make this site international but through my initial research it was / is very hard to find trail blazing lesbians across the world. So, I handover the torch to YOU to discover and document from your country, stellar lesbians who have made a mark in history.
- Oops, Not Girl Friends of Dorothy - Slap my wrist, if I've unjustly included someone who didn't play on our team. The historical records can be grey at times and also in history it was dangerous to be out. Please, do email me if I've made an unintentional error.
- Copywriting / Typos - Sorry :( I'm not a wordsmith queen and ... I'm the worst, proof-reader :( On the positive side you can see this content was not AI generated :) I dread what will happen in the forthcoming years regarding AI generated web / new content.
- Additions To The Slick Roll-Call - Please, do email me, if you have suggestions of slick lesbians to add herein. I've already many to add on to the lesbian trailblazers page BUT to be honest, due to my disappointment in my writing skills, this has discouraged me at the moment :( With time, the site will continue to grow.
Ps Private Web Searching Suggestions - see using a VPN - Virtual Private Network
About The Girl - The Somewhat Mysterious Webmistress
A face to the webmistress? Me ;) Though I'm a brainstormer, do-er & cheerleader, I've always shied away from any limelight & social media selfies. Everyone, has their own right to their privacy / OUTness. During this research, I read a poignant quote:
"I'm out," she once told me. "But I am not out and about it."
Even though, in some fortunate countries homosexuality is no longer illegal - forgive me I'm, still guarded to who I'm OUT to as, even in "swinging London" and these sometimes more liberal uK times - homophobia still exists in the uK. Moreover, even if I was hetty (straight), I would still not be a social media nor selfie queen.
- "Keep your chin-up" - As my hero Daddy would say
- CARPE DIEM! (Seize the DAY!) - Dead Poets Society (movie) quote
- Keep dancing!
❤ Please Do Link To My Site ❤
To those that have linked to my site, I give you the HHHHHHHHUGEST ever hug of thanks to YOU ❤ ❤ ❤ I have consciously avoided promoting my site via social media because I'm not a screen girl but also, there is so much vitriol + false news commenting on social media.
Using This Site As A Clickbait Source - My GA See's YOU
This site has been created independently by a girl friend of Dorothy, with more dash than cash, who genuinely and heartfeltly wanted to collate in one place, an homage to historical slick lesbians who have made their fab mark in history and society and, helped lesbian visibility and lesbian (and women's) rights. I aint profiting from it, indeed I have not gained any income from it, but I do get the HUGEST kick out of the web traffic it's acquiring across the globe, particularly where awful homophobia is still strife :(
I'm flabbergasted - by some google searches e.g. "lesbian movies" = in the top ten Google results I was shocked to see that STRAIGHT magazines like Harper's BAZAAR, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle Magazine, Good HouseKeeping pages coming up in the first page - for sure honing into the clickbait pink dollars! For such a search, as a lezza, I would be seeking posts from e.g gay websites, the IMBd/BFI, reputable newspapers like the Guardian ... Would you for example consult Harper's BAZAAR to discover new ... lesbian movies? Moreover, discovering new (recent) web pages in rankings skimming of some of the ladies mentioned herein.
Working as an SEO, I appreciate the demand on producing Clickbait posts but I always tried to think of a new angle for my content writers to create unique and cool content. Content writers who have come across this site - don't be lame and use this site to regurgitate my pages in vanilla buzzfeed style posts > do your own research across the web and make your own fab mark regarding lesbanism and discovering new heroines.
If you do use any of my pages' content as a clickbait-post seed / source - please, have the courtesy to link to me.
Why Have I Shied From Social Media? (Now I've had to add AI Distain)
A slam dunk twist of fate - I got into web coding via returning (my questionable decision) from Milano to Edinburgh and heard through my ex-boyfriend's STELLAR sister he got into the "web". I'm in debated to coolest Claire rocks for this. This was a complete zero career start for me but I digged it so much > learnt HTML hand-coding coding > through work got into SEO and then social media in their glorious and INNOCENT emerging internet years (which felt like punk times!) e.g. MySpace. If you have grown up with internet and mobile phones (and ... computers), can you imagine how it was before:
- Websites - were an utterly revolutionary "cheap" platform to express one's creativity (music/art/writing/passions etc.) / autonomously market a small / fledging business to the WORLD market without agent/TV/cinema costs. Surprisingly a key pioneer of website functionality was ... the porn industry e.g online videos!
- Website Forums - some websites, then introduced niche worldwide forums for people to discuss "whatever" - a precursor of dating apps.
- Social Media = Facebook and Twitter opened up to the UK, circa 2006 and a year later Youtube opened up to the UK in 2007. Swiftly, I opened a company Facebook account for the "educational" company I was working for (under my work email address or private address?). Irregularly, I posted on Facebook (it was a time when NO company had social media execs). Quite soon after, I vividly remember having almost, a ... heart attack at work! At work, while I'm on my fab team desk "table", Facebook 6unts on my pc were showing recommended gay content when I was logged in my company's Facebook account - this was circa 2007. I had activated something but I can't recall my suspicions - was it my personal email address that was assocaited with my "private" website and included missed gay friends in Milano?! Luckily no work colleagues were into Facebook and I hope didn't see this. Shyster Facebook had OUTED Me! At the time I was mortified and couldn't suss how Facebook had done this and if / how to contest this. For sure Facebook already in 2007 was experimenting in algos without user consent.
Sadly, over time, I have witnessed how SOME social media commenting has changed and haver become increasingly ... NASTY, VILE, TOXIC and has also spread false news, yet no social media company is stopping this. Social media Nasty Commentators & False News are getting away with their nasty publications because social media company owner's are willingly irresponsible, because it will affect their profits: slyly defending themselves that they are being "champions of Freedom Of Speech". Worse still, social media companies consider themselves as "platforms" and not "publishers". What is the difference between being a "platform" and "publisher". It hugely does matter regarding content and law.
- Publishers aggregate, curate and edit content such as a newspaper and, thus are deemed as responsible for what is published. That's why some legal cases against publishers can be brought against Publishers for e.g. defamation.
- Platform owners such as social media companies e.g. "X", Tiktok ... provide the technical functionality and network for (third party) publishers to upload and distribute their content and, therefore social mdie companies have been able to circumvent their responsibility. Fer Fook Sake social media owners take responsibility for content, advertising & their algos and stop false news, accounts and comments on their "platform". They have had plenty of time to address this!
Did USA implement a ban on TikTok, in Jan 2025? No! Cos, Trump won the election and had sucessfully used TikTok to win votes! Groovers, I'm not advocating a boycott on social media but for MORAL awareness:
If you (I hope not) receive any hate comments / hate false news - LOG IT, expose (to every one) and complain to the social media provider and publicise it.
