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Madonna: “Gay Rights Are Way More Advanced Than Women’s Rights”

It’s hard to think of any celebrity who has done more than Madonna to promote public awareness of queer culture.

However, in an interview to Out Magazine, the singer joined the Women Rights vs. Gay rights debate.

Gay rights are way more advanced than women’s rights. People are a lot more open-minded to the gay community than they are to women, period.

It’s moved along for the gay community, for the African-American community, but women are still just trading on their ass. To me, the last great frontier is women.”

Madonna

For women, she feels, the situation has hardly improved since 1983. She said:

Women are still the most marginalized group. They’re still the group that people won’t let change. You must fit into this box: You must behave this way, dress this way.”

Madonna

Her comments follow the same stance as Patricia Arquette comments at the Oscars. Where Arquette also called out the gay community and African-American community to support women’s rights.

But yet, again like with Arquette’s comments, Madonna have failed to acknowledge that lesbians, bisexuals, trans*, and African-Americans are women too.

Her stance is what we call White Feminism, and sadly in this interview she forgets lesbians and bisexual women exist.

As queer women, we aren’t the allies to women – we are women. And the people that are keeping us from equality is not the Gay Community or African-American Community, but it’s misogynist, most oftentimes white, males.

LGF Launch a Guide for Lesbian & Bi-Women Who Have Been Affected by Sexual Violence.

The Lesbian and Gay Foundation’s new guide for lesbian and bisexual women who have been affected by sexual violence, is the first of its kind to be launched in the UK, as it focuses solely on lesbian and bisexual women.

The guide was launched to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and aims to provide survivors of rape or sexual violence with information, support and help. To download the guide, click here.

Funded by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester, the guide will be the first of a series of three information booklets. There will also be a version of the guide aimed at gay and bisexual men, and one for trans people will be released in December.