It might not in a vacuum - I was trying to explain why it mattered to me and why I personally would ever consider her advice. I do not usually look to others for advice. She actively helped me come out and write and therefore I am explaining why i would pass this info on to be used or ignored as one wishes.
Also partially nostalgia for me. I had not thought about her specifically for awhile and I think fondly and gratefully of/ for her and how brave it was to be that open at that time at that place. Her advice to herself and to me was tied to writing lesbian fiction in a good many ways although it can be/has been generalized. I did not put it in gratuitously nor as a pejorative assumption.