Dear DIVA: One Does Not Simply Justify Biphobia
Dear DIVA:
One Does Not Simply Justify Biphobia
Last month, DIVA Magazine, which advertises itself as one of the leading magazines for queer women, ran a feature in which they examined biphobia in the queer community. Seeing as this is the magazine which, not so long ago, listed Lady GaGa in an article entitled 'Top Ten Women We Wish Were Gay' ('... ( Read more... )
I've got the impression that the magazine has always had to straddle a difficult readership profile, partly the mostly younger queer crowd who are relatively more sorted on bi and trans and such, but also appealing to an older lesbian generation that had much narrower rules. As a magazine editor who wants people to carry on buying so your title can carry on printing, you can only go so far outside their comfort zones.
In comparison, (bi mag) BCN's readership demographic is mostly bi and significantly more likely to be cool and froody with trans and poly and nonbinary and suchlike, so how discussions can be framed there is different from how Diva will tend to come at things.
It's a guess though, cos I probably know about 20 times as many people who read BCN as who read Diva, so I know I'm seeing things through a certain lens.
(none of this is saying I like it, simply that it can help to think about where people on the other side of an argument are sitting and how that makes the world look)
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