Dear friends, allies, and everyone who believes in equality!
We have heard too often that change will come. That one day we will reach a place where everyone counts equally. That one day women’s rights will not be secondary, LGBTQ people will not be scapegoats, and social justice will not be just a campaign slogan.
But we know that change does not come by itself.
It is not enough to see new faces in politics if the system remains the same.
We do not only want a change of government. We want a change of system. A system that does not build walls between us, that does not divide us, that does not decide who counts and who does not.
This change will not happen without women. Because without women, there is no freedom. Without women, there is no democracy. Without women, there is no revolution.
We have lived for too long in a system where women’s safety, livelihood, and autonomy are not priorities. For too long, the stories of abused women have been silenced, as if the violence they experience were a private matter. For too long, workplace inequalities have been dismissed with “that’s just how the world works.” For too long, feminism has been portrayed as hysteria, rather than a demand for a society based on equality.
Enough invisibility!
Lesbian women have always been at the forefront of the women’s movement—not as guests, not as outsiders, but as comrades-in-arms. Because you cannot talk about women’s liberation while denying the rights of lesbian, bisexual, and trans women. And you cannot speak of a just society while silencing women who do not fit the roles imposed by patriarchy.
International Women’s Day is not about flowers, gestures, or empty words!
It reminds us that we still have to fight.
A fight for our lives. A fight for our autonomy. A fight for equality.
A fight against a system where power decides who is entitled to rights and who is not.
Because we see what is happening around us.
We see that women’s rights are still secondary, that the state does not protect abused women. We see LGBTQ people erased from public life, laws shaped to exclude us. Lesbian and bisexual women have no right to make decisions about their own bodies; artificial insemination is forbidden for lesbian couples. Rainbow families are not legally recognized. Trans people have been denied their identities. We see power trying to turn us against each other—dividing us, categorizing us, silencing us.
But we will not accept this.
We will not accept receiving less. We will not allow ourselves to be turned against each other. We will not let others decide about our lives.
Men, this is addressed to you too! You are also part of this system. You see how power treats women. You see the victims of abuse, the humiliated, exploited, silenced women. Patriarchy does not only oppress women—it confines you too. This system teaches that violence is power, sensitivity is weakness. But you are capable of more. If you want a fairer world, do not just watch this fight—stand with us and show that solidarity is stronger than the roles we were taught. Be our allies. Stand up for women. Not only when your own sister, daughter, or girlfriend experiences injustice, but always. Because this struggle is not only about women. This struggle is about all of us.
We are the women living in sexual minorities that this system does not want to see. We do not fit the traditional family model, we do not conform to conservative gender roles, and we will not silently accept others deciding about us.
We are the ones who are demonized. We are the ones they want to erase from public life. We are the ones they say are a threat to society.
No. We are not a threat to society—we are a threat to power. Because we are strong and we resist.
We resist silence, and we resist compromise.
We resist those who say we should ask for less, wait longer, that our time will come.
Because our time is now.
Do not try to make a revolution without lesbian women!
We are here, and we will stay here.
March 8, 2025
Magyar 
English (UK) 