#shash appan

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I hope everyone had a great Lesbian Visibility Week, which is the week that Lesbian Visibility Day falls on annually in April. See Joseph Ali’s article here on some of the most influential lesbian women currently in Wales.

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Pinc List 2021 from WalesOnline, the annual list of ‘most influential’ LGBTQ+ people of Wales in the last year.

With Russell T. Davies at number 1, Callum Scott Howell is included on the Rising Stars part of the list - both were involved with TV show ‘It’s a Sin.’ Yasmin Begum, Emily Bridges, Alessandro Ceccarelli, Derwen Fay, Emrys Price-Jones and others are also Rising Stars.

The rest of the list includes strongwoman Samantha Taylor, Rob Keetch (Dr Bev), Vish of Glitter Cymru, historian Norena Shopland, politicians Joshua Beynon, Fflur Elin, Stephen Doughty, Jeremy Miles and Hannah Blythyn, trans rights activist Crash Wigley, footballer Sophie Ingle, Laura McAllister, Stonewall Cymru’s Iestyn Wyn, Reverend Delyth Liddell, Romani Arts’ Isaac Blake, LGBTQymru founder Bleddyn Harris, Kate Hutchinson, Shash Appan of Trans Aid Cymru, Rania Vamvaka and Rahim el Habachi of Glitter Cymru, Lisa Power and Mayor of Bangor, Owen Hurcum.

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Lesbian Visibility Week

Lesbian history that’s been included on this blog:

Katherine Phillips, the “Welsh Sappho”

Mary Charlotte Lloyd, Welsh sculptor, partner of Frances Power Cobbe

Cranogwen, Sarah Jane Rees, who needs no introduction

Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist

Rachel Barrett, Carmarthen Suffragette

Margaret Haig Mackworth, Viscountess/Lady Rhondda

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, 20th century actress

Shash Appan, activist of Trans Aid Cymru and Glitter Cymru

More modern women have been celebrated by WalesOnline (click for link), including Welsh LGBT+ historian Norena Shopland and LGBT+ and HIV activist Lisa Power.

There are also many more WLW (woman-loving women) I’ve posted about, like Nina Hamnett, Gwen John and Jan Morris.

Plus Efa Blosse-Mason’s beautiful art in the centre.