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Women around Sheffield have been celebrating \u2018Lesbian Visibility Week\u2019 to share their stories of living as a queer woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Societies across the city, such as the LGBT+ representatives committee<\/a>, have celebrated the week with Instagram live discussions, social media posts and talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Sheffield student Jude Barnett spoke to Shefnews about her journey as coming out as a lesbian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cI knew something was up from a really, really young age. I had my first girl crush in year three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, I didn\u2019t come out until I was 14, and actually I was outed through my dad and step-mum reading my diary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20-year old English Literature student added: \u201cThat was really horrible because it took away my choice in what I wanted to say and how I wanted it to come across.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awareness week, founded by DIVA publisher Linda Riley, has become an international success since its return in 2020, reaching the city of Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week is endorsed by organisations such as Stonewall and UK Black Pride, with LGBT+ groups in Sheffield such as the university committee and SAYiT raising awareness to the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Images taken from the LGBT+ committee’s Instagram ‘Lesbian Vis’ highlights <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Olivia Provan, 20, lesbian representative of University of Sheffield\u2019s LGBT+ committee, said: \u201cIt\u2019s important we celebrate this week as so many people don\u2019t realise the struggles lesbians can go through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the society, and this week particularly, I\u2019m someone for people to come and feel safe with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Barnett found she has faced discrimination from when she came out at school through to living life as an adult at university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cOne girl at school just looked me in the eyes and said \u2018ew\u2019 after I made a joke about me being a lesbian. That was pretty awful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the awareness week is good so people can educate themselves off people\u2019s stories, but I think it could be more effective if big companies did more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year was the first year the University of Sheffield has had a lesbian representative and the LGBT+ committee hopes each year #lesbianvisibilityweek will ‘flourish’ more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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