‘Vogue’ Slammed By LGBT Community For Cara Delevingne Cover Story

Cara Delevingne received praise for coming out about her sexuality in the July 2015 issue of Vogue magazine. Now it looks like the fashion magazine is getting slammed for their insensitive article about the British model.

Inside the new issue, Delevingne talked about how she struggled with her sexuality ever since she was a child. It’s also the first time that she publicly declares she’s in love with musician St. Vincent, also known as Annie Clark. But the phrases that writer Rob Haskell uses to describe Delevingne’s sexuality has rubbed the LGBT community the wrong way.

According to Refinery 29, activists created an online petition against the writer. The petition already has over 13,000 signatures as of this moment.

Haskell describes Delevingne’s sexuality as a phase. He writes, “Her parents seem to think girls are just a phase for Cara, and they may be correct.” Haskell believes that Delevingne’s rocky relationship with her mother is what drove her into relationships with women. He offered his analysis on the model’s same sex relationships. During the interview, Haskell even suggested to the Delevingne that she should learn to strengthen her trust with men.

“When I suggest to Cara that to trust a man, she might have to revise an old and stubborn idea of hers—that women are perennially troubled and therefore only women will accept her—her smile says she concedes the point.”

But now the LGBT community is hitting back. Julie Rodriguez, author of the petition titled, “Tell Vogue Magazine: Being LGBT Isn’t a ‘Phase,'” explains why sexuality doesn’t have an on and off switch. She also explains that one’s past or relationships don’t turn them onto men or women.

“People are quick to assume queer women’s identities are a ‘phase’ and to refuse to recognize the important relationships in their lives — an attitude which can cause depression, result in families rejecting their daughters (or forcing them into abusive conversion ‘therapy’), and even put young women at risk of suicide. Vogue should have taken this opportunity to combat negative stereotypes, not reinforce them.

“The idea that queer women only form relationships with other women as a result of childhood trauma is a harmful (and false) stereotype that lesbian and bisexual women have been combating for decades.”

What does Rodriguez want accomplished from this petition? She simply wants Vogue to apologize for saying that sexuality is a phase. Talk about great timing for Pride Month.

Neither Anna Wintour nor Vogue magazine has responded to the petition. Cara Delevingne herself hasn’t responded to the interview, but she has no problem hitting back at Vogue for misquoting her when it’s necessary.

[Image: Vogue/Patrick Demarchelier]