Lesbian

homosexual woman or girl
(Redirected from Lesbianism)

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

Le Sommeil by Gustave Courbet
Les Deux amies by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Quotes

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  • Lesbianism is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in contrast to male homosexual behavior, which is expressly forbidden as a capital crime. The absence of discussion of lesbianism in this context has raised scholarly interest.
  • Lesbianism is the ultimate expression of a feminist philosophy.
  • For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such at that of North America, is an act of resistance.
  • Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
  • Lesbians are "dykes," not "dikes." We are not dams, although some people consider us damned.
    • Margaret A. Robinson, in Ms. (February 1973)

See also

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