In a collage against a pink background, left to right in the back row: Cheryl Dunye playing with her hat, Vanessa Friedman hugging friends, Audre Lorde in black and white, and Natalie Diaz smirking at the camera. Front row, left to right: Shelli Nicole as a little girl on picture day, Heather Hogan smiling in a tie, Malinda Lo looking directly into camera with an intense gaze, and Kayla Kumari taking a selfie with her phone. All of these photos are highlighted with background shadows in the color of the lesbian pride flag.
Graphic: Autostraddle // Photo of Cheryl Dunye by Michael Tran/Getty Images and Audre Lorde by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images

Well friends, Lesbian Visibility Week is once again upon us. And we spent a lot of time thinking about — just how stop and can we celebrate the lesbians in our lives, you know? Now obviously we celebrate lesbians every day at Autostraddle, but also that background hum of “let’s go lesbians” can always stand to be turned up a notch. Or a hundred notches. Why not do it big?

Our managing editor Kayla, master of puns, thought of it first: Lesbianspiration! Who have we looked up, been inspired by, or admired? Who are the lesbians, either in our daily lives or far away — or, be real, don’t even know us — that we want to just take a moment and say thanks. Thank you for making our day brighter or thank you for changing how we think about things. Thank you for being a lighthouse that we can model the lives after, even just a little bit. We decided that you did not have to be a lesbian to join in on this celebration of visible lesbians, just wiling to share the love. Everyone hopped in to respond and our editor-in-chief Carmen made the graphics (so please be kind!). That’s how this roundtable was born.

If you’re a lesbian reading this roundtable we hope you had a chocolate bar today! Or that you get to have a really relaxing night under a blanket with a book. Lesbians. F*** yes.