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-| image         = Lesbian Flag 5 stripe.svg
-| caption       = The community lesbian pride flag
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-| term          = [[Sexual orientation]]
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-| gender        = *Women <small>(common definition)</small>
-*Women-aligned
-*Non-binary genders
-| attracted     = *Women <small>(common definition)</small>
-*Women-aligned
-*Non-binary genders
-| attractedtype = Emotionally, romantically, sexually
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-| different     = [[Sapphic]] <small>(modern definition)</small>
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-'''Lesbian''', a term with multiple definitions, is most often defined as a woman who has enduring emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions toward other women.<ref name="GLAAD Glossary: LGBQ">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.glaad.org/reference/lgbtq |title=Glossary of Terms - Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Queer |author=[[GLAAD]] |work=[https://www.glaad.org/reference GLAAD Media Reference Guide - 10th Edition] |archivedate=20210926074140}}</ref><ref name="Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Lesbian">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lesbian |title=Lesbian |author=[https://www.merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster Dictionary] |archivedate=20211203104515}}</ref><ref name="TLP: Lesbian">{{Cite_web |url=https://translanguageprimer.com/lesbian |title=Lesbian |author=[[The Trans Language Primer]] |work=[https://translanguageprimer.com The Trans Language Primer] |archivedate=20211022172812}}</ref><ref name="Trevor Project: Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/understanding-gay-lesbian-identities |title=Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities |author=[[The Trevor Project]] |date=2021-08-20 |archivedate=20211121080019}}</ref><ref name="CAL: SOGI Booklet">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.cal.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/English-SOGI-Booklet.small_.pdf |title=Violence based on perceived or real sexual orientation and gender identity in Africa |author=[https://www.cal.org.za Coalition of African Lesbians] |partialdate=2013 |format=PDF |archivedate=20211228150232}}</ref><ref name="ILGA-Europe Glossary">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.ilga-europe.org/resources/glossary |title=ILGA-Europe Glossary |author=[https://www.ilga-europe.org ILGA-Europe]}} <small>([https://www.ilga-europe.org/sites/default/files/glossary_october_2015_edition.pdf as PDF])</small></ref><ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.lgbtiqhealth.org.au/lgbti_people_and_communities |title='LGBTI' people and communities |author=[https://www.lgbtiqhealth.org.au LGBTIQ+ Health Australia] |date=2019-06-28 |archivedate=20210420004619}}</ref><ref name="Stonewall: List of LGBTQ+ Terms">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.stonewall.org.uk/help-advice/faqs-and-glossary/list-lgbtq-terms |title=List of LGBTQ+ terms |author=[[Stonewall]] |archivedate=20211117194503}}</ref><ref name="ABC's">{{Cite_print |author=Mardell, Ashley |title=The ABC's of LGBT+ |publisher=Mango Media Inc. |date=2016 |isbn=9781633534087}}</ref><ref name="Health of LGBT People">{{Cite_print |author=Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities |title=The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding |publisher=The National Academies Press |date=2011 |isbn=9780309210621}}</ref> It has also been defined with expanded language, such as women-aligned,{{#tag:ref|{{Woman-aligned}}|group = note}}<ref name="Queer Adolescence">{{Cite_print |author=McNabb, Charlie |title=Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781538132814}}</ref> a person who self-describes as a woman,<ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia" /> and some [[non-binary]]<ref name="Stonewall: List of LGBTQ+ Terms" /><ref name="ABC's" /> and/or [[genderqueer]] people who feel a connection to womanhood.<ref name="ABC's" /> The term is generally used as a self-identification of [[Sexual orientation|sexual]]<ref name="Stonewall: List of LGBTQ+ Terms" /><ref name="Health of LGBT People" /><ref name="PFLAG: National Glossary of Terms">{{Cite_web|url=https://pflag.org/glossary|title=National Glossary of Terms|author=[[PFLAG]]}}</ref> and/or [[romantic orientation]].<ref name="Stonewall: List of LGBTQ+ Terms" /> Lesbians may be [[cisgender]] or [[transgender]];<ref name="TLP: Lesbian" /><ref name="Not in our name">{{Cite_web |url=https://divamag.co.uk/2018/12/19/not-in-our-name |title=Not in our name |author=DIVA Media Group, et al. |date=2018-12-18 |work=[https:///divamag.co.uk DIVA] |archivedate=20210629172043 |quote=DIVA, Curve, Autostraddle, LOTL, Tagg, Lez Spread The Word, DapperQ, GO Magazine and LezWatch.TV believe that trans women are women and that trans people belong in our community. We do not think supporting trans women erases our lesbian identities; rather we are enriched by trans friends and lovers, parents, children, colleagues and siblings.}}</ref> since [[gender]] is a separate concept from sexual orientation, someone may be both trans and lesbian.{{#tag:ref|While [[transgender]] people are generally implied in definitions, trans lesbians are explicitly noted here to make clear that lesbian identity is not limited to [[cisgender]] women.|group = note}}<ref name="TLP: Lesbian" /> Some prefer to use or additionally use "[[gay]]" or "gay woman" as an identifier,<ref name="GLAAD Glossary: LGBQ" /><ref name="ILGA-Europe Glossary" /><ref name="Queer Adolescence" /> terms which also convey attraction to someone of the same gender,<ref name="GLAAD Glossary: LGBQ" /> or they use other language.<ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia" />
-==Etymology==
-[[File:SapphoKalpis.png|thumb|right|250px|Painted vase depicting [[Sappho]] (c. 510 BC)]]
-The term "Lesbian" originally referred to people or things from the Greek island of Lesbos. It is associated with famous poet Sappho, a community leader from the island of Lesbos who wrote multiple love poems to other women circa 600 BCE.<ref name="Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Lesbian" /> The adjective "[[sapphic]]" is also derived from [[Sappho]].<ref name="Etymonline: Sapphic">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/Sapphic#etymonline_v_22727 |title=Etymology, origin and meaning of sapphic |author=etymonline |work=[https://www.etymonline.com Online Etymology Dictionary]}}</ref> Sappho also wrote erotic and romantic verses that included men, but in English language texts, her particular association with the erotic love between women has been dated to 1732 or before. By 1870, "lesbianism" had become a noun for a woman's erotic interest in other women or homosexual relations between them. "Lesbian" has been in continuous use since 1890 as an adjective unrelated to the isle of Lesbos,<ref name="Etymonline: Lesbian">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/lesbian |title=Etymology, origin and meaning of lesbian |author=etymonline |work=[https://www.etymonline.com Online Etymology Dictionary]}}</ref> describing romantic and/or sexual behavior between women regardless of their specific sexualities, such as "lesbian couple", "lesbian sex", or "lesbian kiss".<ref name="Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Lesbian" /> It was first recorded as a noun in 1925.<ref name="Etymonline: Lesbian" />
-==Community==
-===History===
-====During the Weimar Republic (1919–1933)====
-[[File:Sie Representiert.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Sie repräsentiert!'' ("She represents!") by Jeanne Mammen, c. 1928, depicts a party in a lesbian bar.]]
-In Germany, the word "homosexual" was widely used, but not universally loved, by gay men and lesbians by the 1920s. Other language used by homosexual women included ''lesbianer'' (lesbian), ''freundin'' (female form of "friend"), and ''tribade'' (from the French usage, but rare by the 1920s), along with references to Sappho. Words implying certain roles also emerged. Although less language specified feminine lesbians, ''Mädi'' or Dame were sometimes used. Lesbian magazines sometimes described "Don Juans" and the "Ben Hur type", while two words that suggested a masculine appearance, and might be loosely translated as "butch" today, were ''Bubi'' (lad, also a reference to the popular bobbed haircut) and ''garçonne''.<ref name="Queer Identities and Politics in Germany">{{Cite_print |author=Whisnant, Clayton J. |title=Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945 |publisher=Harrington Park Press |date=2016 |isbn=9781939594105}}</ref> ''Garçonne'' was derived from the French word ''garçon'' ("boy") with a feminine suffix added. Its closest English translation would be "tomboy". Victor Margueritte's 1922 novel ''La Garçonne'', translated for English readers as "The Bachelor Girl", led to popular use of ''garçonne'' as a description for flappers, women who wore masculine clothing, and lesbians. A lesbian magazine originally published as ''Frauenliebe'' ("Woman Love") was retitled ''Garçonne'' from 1930 to 1932, and a lesbian club of that name was opened in 1931 by Susi Wannowsky.<ref name="We Weren't Modern Enough">{{Cite_print |author=Meskimmon, Marsha |title=We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism |publisher=University of California Press |date=1999 |isbn=9780520221345 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWVobn2G42oC&pg=PA206}}</ref>
-The most common Weimar era alternative to "homosexual" was "friend", placing an emphasis on emotional relationships while also obscuring the sexual element for those not in the know. Men's and women's "friendship" magazines demonstrated that a sense of shared identity was developing between gay men and lesbians, along with a discussions of how solidarity would be needed for a political movement. Compared to gay men, women seemed more tolerant of androgyny and crossing gender lines, but some publications debated the traits of masculine lesbians versus feminine lesbians.<ref name="Queer Identities and Politics in Germany" />
-After World War I, the number of lesbian cafés and clubs in Berlin increased dramatically, reaching more than fifty by the mid-1920s. Some establishments were class-segregated; for instance, the Club Monbijou West required an invitation and the Pyramid was for celebrities and artists. The Chez Ma Belle Sœur was regarded by locals as a showplace for tourists. Other parts of the Weimar lesbian scene brought together women of various social classes that had been isolated from each other prior to the war.<ref name="Queer Identities and Politics in Germany" />
-====During the Nazi regime (1933–1945)====
-{{Main|Lesbian history during the Nazi regime}}
-The history of lesbians during the Nazi regime is still being researched and compiled decades later. The experiences of lesbians and women accused of being lesbians are difficult to trace and cross-reference across scattered documents. Few women were identified as lesbians in official records kept during the Nazi era. Victims were not necessarily lesbians despite being documented as such by the Nazis; it is unclear how many of the allegations were false.<ref name="USHMM: Lesbians">{{Cite_web | url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lesbians-under-the-nazi-regime |title=Lesbians under the Nazi Regime |author=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |work=[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org Holocaust Encyclopedia] |archivedate=20220112140250}}</ref>
-Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime used a strengthened version of [[Paragraph 175]], which criminalized male homosexuality, to engage in extensive, systematic persecution of gay men.<ref name="USHMM: Lesbians" /> Sexual intimacy between women was not criminalized, with the exception of Austria, but the Nazis disrupted informal gay and lesbian social networks, raided and closed their public meeting places, and put locations under surveillance. While some fled the country, others attempted to outwardly conform by entering marriages of convenience, sometimes between a gay man and a lesbian. The Third Reich saw marriage and motherhood as the ultimate purpose of women, specifically to increase the "desirable" Aryan population. To the Nazis, lesbians could be "cured"<ref name="Lesbian Encyclopedia: Nazism">{{Cite_print |author=Schoppmann, Claudia |titlepart=Nazism |title=Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia |contributor=Zimmerman, Bonnie (editor) |publisher=Garland Publishing |date=2000 |isbn=0815319207 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim/page/539}}</ref> to bear Aryan children by persuasion or by force.<ref name="USHMM: Lesbians" /><ref name="Lesbian Encyclopedia: Nazism" />
-Lesbians did not experience the same systematic persecution as gay men, but they could be investigated, arrested, and sent to prisons or concentration camps for other "offenses", such as being Jewish or engaging in subversive political behavior; their sexuality was not the official reason listed. While gay men were forced to wear a downward-pointing [[pink triangle]] in camps that used coded badges, lesbians were instead marked with whichever badge corresponded to their official reason for arrest and internment.<ref name="USHMM: Lesbians" /> Some lesbians were marked as "asocials" and wore a downward-pointing black triangle.<ref name="Lesbian Encyclopedia: Nazism" /> The black triangle has been used by some lesbians in a manner similar to how some people in the gay community have reclaimed the pink triangle as a defiant symbol.<ref name="ODU: Queer 101">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.odu.edu/oir/lgbt/queer101 |title=Queer 101 |author=Old Dominian University |work=[https://www.odu.edu/oir/lgbt Old Dominian University - LGBTQIA+ Initiatives] |archivedate=20211025074140}}</ref>
-====Mid-20th century, United States====
-[[File:BoLSoG-ApartmentCouple.png|thumb|right|300px|A butch/femme couple photographed in front of their apartment in the 1950s]]
-In the 1940s, lesbian group solidarity began to grow in the United States, and the 1950s built on that through night life at lesbian bars and house parties. In the U.S., participation in lesbian communities was largely predicated on adopting [[butch]]/[[femme]] culture and its associated roles as they were understood in that time period. The butch/femme code of personal behavior became a social imperative to increase the visibility of lesbians to the public and to each other, particularly with the expression of butch identities, whether or not a femme partner was present.<ref name="Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold">{{Cite_print |author=Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Davis, Madeline D. |title=Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community |version=20th anniversary edition |publisher=Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |date=2014 |isbn=9781315767611}}</ref>
-Locations where lesbians congregated became sites of resistance and defiance of the societal repression of women's sexuality. Growing lesbian pride and solidarity developed into the political consciousness of gay liberation that spread with the [[Stonewall riots]] of 1969 and the subsequent decades. Bar culture in particular evolved into politics focused on the right to congregate rather than the [[homophile]] movement that focused on the right to equal protection.<ref name="Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" />
-====Stonewall riots====
-{{Quote|quote=It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience&mdash;it wasn't no damn riot.|speaker=[[Stormé DeLarverie]]}}
-In the late 1960s, it was illegal in the state of New York for people considered "of the same sex" to publicly hold hands, kiss, or dance with each other.<ref name="History: Stonewall Riots">{{Cite web |url=https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots |title=Stonewall Riots |date=2017-05-31 |author=History.com Editors |publisher=A&E Television Networks |archivedate=20220120210442}}</ref> Police also harassed and arrested people who were not wearing attire that matched binary genders imposed by the police, such as those the police viewed as "female" who was not wearing enough "[[feminine]]" attire. Lesbians and trans men were targeted on the streets and in bars for harassment, assaults, and examinations of their anatomy; for instance, the [[drag]] king Rusty Brown was repeatedly arrested for wearing a shirt and pants.<ref name="History: Drag">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-three-article-rule |title=How Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime in the 20th Century |date=2019-06-28 |author=Ryan, Hugh |publisher=A&E Television Networks |archivedate=20220103171807}}</ref>
-The Stonewall riots, also called the Stonewall uprising,<ref name="Brittanica">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Stonewall-riots |title=Stonewall riots, United States history |date=2009-06-17 |author=The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica |publisher=[https://www.britannica.com Encyclopaedia Britannica]}}</ref> started on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a [[gay]] club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. Initially a confrontation between patrons and police officers, it was strengthened by other members of the LGBTQIA+ community and neighborhood street people.<ref name="History: Drag" /> Despite several drawbacks, the Stonewall Inn was an important institution for the local community. The Genovese crime family, a Mafia organization, found it profitable to control most of the gay bars in Greenwich Village, including Stonewall Inn. Police officers were bribed to ignore the bar or tip it off prior to the frequent police raids,<ref name="History: Stonewall Riots" /> which usually resulted in people who were inside the bar fleeing and those outside dispersing.<ref name="Brittanica" />
-[[File:Stormé DeLarverie standing.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Stormé DeLarverie]], sometime between 1955 and 1969]]
-In the early morning hours on June 28, 1969, Stonewall Inn was not tipped off before police officers arrived with a warrant. The officers were physically aggressive with the patrons and began arresting employees for liquor license violations and patrons for "cross-dressing".<ref name="History: Stonewall Riots" /> [[Stormé DeLarverie]], who worked as a drag king, and several fellow butch lesbians attempted to defend their friends, but were beaten by police.<ref name="Three Village">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.tvhs.org/post/stormé-delarverie-stonewall-stalwart |title=Stormé DeLarverie: Stonewall Stalwart |author=Mae, Tara |date=2020-06-28 |work=Three Village Historical Society |archivedate=20220117140807}}</ref> Although there is some debate about whether or not DeLarverie was the party in certain events, along with the sequence of those events,<ref name="Three Village" /><ref name="Them">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.them.us/story/drag-king-cabaret-legend-activist-storme-delarverie |title=Drag Herstory: A Drag King's Journey From Cabaret Legend to Iconic Activist |author=[https://www.them.us/contributor/elyssa-goodman Goodman, Alyssa] |date=2018-03-29 |work=[https://www.them.us them.] |archivedate=20220117140807}}</ref> she has been attributed with throwing the first punch and initiating the riot. At some point, DeLarverie stated an officer told her to move along, called her a slur referring to a gay man, and hit her; she punched back.<ref name="Them" /> When a lesbian was forced into the police van and struck over the head, she shouted at the onlookers to act; the crowd began throwing objects at the police.<ref name="History: Stonewall Riots" /> Some accounts are that DeLarverie complained about her handcuffs and was struck with a baton. She was dragged into the police wagon and attempted to flee towards Stonewall Inn. When she was pulled back and further beaten by the officers, she reportedly yelled to the crowd, "Why don't you do something?"<ref name="Three Village" />
-Over the following six days, the community engaged in protests and violent clashes with law enforcement on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets, and in nearby Christopher Park.<ref name="History: Stonewall Riots" /> Although the uncoordinated actions are often called a riot, DeLarverie described it as a rebellion, uprising, and civil rights disobedience.<ref name="Three Village" /> The event is widely regarded as a catalyst for the civil rights movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States.<ref name="NPS">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.nps.gov/places/stonewall-national-monument.htm |title=Stonewall National Monument |partialdate=2018-08-09 (last updated) |publisher=National Park Service |archivedate=20220108011405}}</ref>
-====1970s–1980s====
-In the 1980s, many expressions of sexuality were treated as problematic by the lesbian-feminist{{#tag:ref |"Lesbian-feminist" has been hyphenated to help emphasize that it refers to [[Wikipedia:Lesbian feminism |lesbian feminism]], a specific kind of feminism that emerged in the 1970s. It has a different meaning from lesbians who are also feminists.|group=note}} movement. In its attempt to challenge the stigma of "sexual deviance", the movement was dismissive of sexuality and erotic desire. Adrienne Rich's 1980 article "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" and Lillian Faderman's 1981 book ''Surpassing the Love of Men'' were key texts to the movement. Both split lesbian history from the history of gay men. The texts emphasized loving and passionate relationships between women that were not necessarily sexual; however, they also treated sexuality as something apart from redefining lesbianism. Faderman claimed that the medical establishment's view of love between women as pathological led to the patriarchy treating any close relationships as suspicious and sexual; therefore, women's relationships should no longer emphasize sexuality.<ref name="Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" />
-Lesbian-feminists also sought to separate the experiences of who they defined as women and men. Rich framed lesbians as a political identity, a resistance to patriarchy, and commonality between all women-identified "passionate friends", warriors, and activists. She argued that being a lesbian was a choice, and that all feminists should make that choice as they removed themselves from male influences. Butch/femme culture was seen by lesbian-feminists as only an imitation of heterosexuality that reproduced the patriarchy, rather than its own rich culture. Since butch lesbians were associated with masculine traits, lesbian-feminists saw them as inherently suspicious. The free expressions of sexual desire between femmes and butches were regarded as incompatible with the lesbian-feminists' desexualized version of who could be a "lesbian". Further, the importance of butches, femmes, and their culture was dismissed. When mentioned at all, lesbian-feminists treated them as if they were only a footnote, rather than presenting butches and femmes as essential to lesbian history.<ref name="Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" />
-===Flag===
-====Double Venus flags====
-[[File:Lesbian Pride Double Venus1.svg|thumb|left|150px|A double Venus flag]][[File:Lesbian Pride Double Venus2.svg|thumb|right|150px|Another double Venus flag]]
-The Venus symbol (♀) originated as an ancient Roman astrological symbol for the female (sometimes called "the mirror of Venus"). It has since become an astronomical symbol of the planet Venus and a botanical and zoological symbol of femaleness. Two interlocking Venus symbols (such as ⚢) often represent lesbianism.<ref name="Lesbian Encyclopedia: Symbols">{{Cite_print |author=Stevens, Christy |titlepart=Symbols |title=Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia |contributor=Zimmerman, Bonnie (editor) |publisher=Garland Publishing |date=2000 |isbn=0815319207 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofle00bzim/page/748}}</ref> Multiple [[Pride]] flags combine the double Venus symbol with Gilbert Baker's rainbow designs.<ref name="Double Venus">{{Cite_web |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Double_Venus_symbols |title=Double Venus symbols |work=[https://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons] |format=Image category}}</ref>
-====Labrys lesbian flag====
-[[File:Labrys Lesbian Flag.svg|thumb|right|200px|The labrys lesbian flag]]
-The labrys symbol was adopted as a symbol of empowerment for lesbian feminists in the 1970s. In 1999, graphic designer Sean Campbell&mdash;a cisgender gay man&mdash;created the labrys lesbian flag for the June 2000 Pride issue of the magazine ''Gay and Lesbian Times''. His flag design superimposed a white labrys over the downward-pointed black triangle, on a violet-hued background;<ref name="ODU: Queer 101" /> violet flowers have a long association with lesbians due to inclusion in Sappho's poetry.<ref name="What Exactly Is The Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag">{{Cite_web |url=https://queerintheworld.com/labrys-lesbian-pride-flag |title=What Exactly Is The Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag, And What Does It Mean? |work=[https://queerintheworld.com Queer in the World] |archivedate=20211227153610}}</ref>
-Some controversy arose around this flag design, however, as the black triangle is associated with the Holocaust, specifically a mark that "asocials" (including some lesbians) and other victims were forced to wear in the Nazi concentration camps.<ref name="ODU: Queer 101" /><ref name="What Exactly Is The Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag" /> Additionally, the labrys has been used as a symbol by some fascist organizations.<ref name="Lesbian Flag History" /> In the years since the flag was created, some trans exclusionists have also adopted the labrys symbol as their own,<ref name="What Exactly Is The Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag" /><ref name="Lesbian Flag History">{{Cite_web |url=https://lesbianflaghistory.tumblr.com/post/185390167678/seeing-a-lot-of-misinformation-flying-around |title=The Lesbian Flag |author=[https://lesbianflaghistory.tumblr.com How Did We Get Here?] |date=2019-06-05 |archivedate=20211205190140}}</ref> which has led to a widespread perception of the flag as not trans inclusive.<ref name="What Exactly Is The Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag" />
-====Lipstick lesbian flag and stripes====
-[[File:Cougar-Lipstick-Pink.png|thumb|left|200px |Design progression from the "Cougar Pride Flag" by Fausto Fernós, to the plagiarized "The Official Lipstick Lesbian Flag" by Natalie McCray, to the stripes-only "pink flag"]]
-In 2008, a "Cougar Pride Flag" was designed by Fausto Fernós,<ref name="Cougar original">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/feastoffools/2414971431 |title=Cougar Pride Flag designed by Fausto Fernós |author=Fernós, Fausto |date=2008-04-15 |archivedate=20190723155420}}</ref> a [[drag]] queen who created it to be tongue-in-cheek; the intention was "to draw attention to the ongoing issue of ageism and sexism in women's sexuality."<ref name="Cougar plagiarism">{{Cite_web |url=https://medium.com/@faustofernos/the-lipstick-lesbian-flag-idea-was-stolen-from-my-design-of-a-cougar-pride-flag-which-was-designed-ad2d18ae00c1 |title=The Lipstick Lesbian Flag idea was stolen from my design of a Cougar Pride Flag |author=Fernós, Fausto |date=2019-06-12 |archivedate=20210825182106}}</ref> It includes a semi-transparent, dark red lipstick kiss mark in the top left corner and seven stripes in shades of red and pink.<ref name="Cougar original" /> In 2010, the blogger Natalie McCray from ''This Lesbian Life''<ref name="McCray: Lipstick Lesbian Pride!!!">{{Cite_web |url=https://thislesbianlife.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/lipstick-lesbian-pride |title=Lipstick Lesbian Pride!!! |author=McCray, Natalie |work=This Lesbian Life |date=2010-07-28 |archivedate=20151119165126 |nolive=1}}</ref> plagiarized Fernós' design<ref name="Lesbian Flag History" /><ref name="Cougar plagiarism" /> and presented it as her own creation that she called "The Official [[Lipstick lesbian |Lipstick Lesbian]] Flag". The lipstick mark graphic was flattened into a solid bright pink with white highlights, and the stripes were lightened and color-shifted with a central white stripe.<ref name="McCray: Lipstick Lesbian Pride!!!" />
-While McCray's image has not been widely adopted in the manner she presented it, a revision<ref name="ODU: Queer 101" /> using McCray's stripe colors and omitting the kiss mark gained more popularity. One version of this was posted in 2013 on a Tumblr blog with the username trans-wife; however, it was captioned as a lesbian flag rather than specific to lipstick lesbians.<ref name="trans-wife: Pride Flags">{{Cite_web |url=https://trans-wife.tumblr.com/post/69455619432/and-every-one-of-them-deserves-equal-respect-feel |title=Pride Flags |author=[https://trans-wife.tumblr.com trans-wife] |date=2013-12-08 |archivedate=20210603160132}}</ref> A larger version of the pink stripe flag was posted in 2015 by the Pride-Flags account on DeviantArt.<ref name="Pride-Flags: Lesbian">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Lesbian-564726041 |title=Lesbian |author=Pride-Flags |date=2015-10-07 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/2O7xL}}</ref>
-McCray's flag and its derivatives have been criticized when represented as a flag for ''all'' lesbians since it was created to be specific to one subculture.<ref name="Lesbian Flag History" /> McCray has been accused of making hateful remarks regarding butches, bisexual women, Asian women,<ref name="Lesbian Flag History" /><ref name="A Lesbian Flag for Everyone">{{Cite_web |url=https://medium.com/@lydiandragon/a-lesbian-flag-for-everyone-cef397b89459 |title=A Lesbian Flag for Everyone |author=Lydia |date=2018-06-26 |archivedate=20191006130034 |nolive=1}}</ref> and trans people, including in a since-deleted blog post by Lydia when presenting her [[:File:Sapphic Flag.jpg |Sappho-inspired flag design]].<ref name="A Lesbian Flag for Everyone" /> In a since-deleted post, McCray responded to Lydia and denied the accusations of racism, biphobia, and transphobia.<ref name="McCray: Lydia is Cancelled">{{Cite_web |url=https://thislesbianlife.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/lydia-is-cancelled |title=Lydia is Cancelled |author=McCray, Natalie |date=2018-11-10 |archivedate=20190908103333 |nolive=1}}</ref> Since the "pink" flag originated as McCray's lipstick lesbian flag, it is similarly seen as not inclusive of butches and other [[gender non-conforming]] lesbians.<ref name="Lesbian Flag History" />
-====Seven-stripe pink/orange flags====
-[[File:Lesbian_Flags_7_stripes.png|thumb|right|200px|From top to bottom: the primary design from shapeshifter-of-constellation's proposals, the design by nillia, and the first design posted by sadlesbeandisaster]]
-At the end of June 2017, Mod Q of the Tumblr blog ''butch positivity'' (butchspace) posted a seven-striped orange and yellow butch flag design<ref name="butchspace: Butch flag">{{Cite_web |url=https://butchspace.tumblr.com/post/162316889795/a-new-butch-flag |title=A new butch flag |author=Mod Q of butchspace |work=[https://butchspace.tumblr.com butch positivity] |date=2017-06-27 |archivedate=20211130004936}}</ref> and color meanings.<ref name="butchspace: Color meanings">{{Cite_web |url=https://butchspace.tumblr.com/post/162452543535/based-off-of-princechaotics-suggestions-and-my |title=Color meanings <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Mod Q of butchspace |work=[https://butchspace.tumblr.com butch positivity] |date=2017-06-30 |archivedate=20211017075347}}</ref> Days later in July, the username shapeshifter-of-constellation{{#tag:ref |As of December 2021, shapeshifter-of-constellation and sadlesbeandisaster are both named Emily, so their respective usernames are used to distinguish them from each other. |group = note}} posted a general lesbian flag design. The bottom three stripes use color codes sampled from the top of Mod Q's butch flag, and the top four colors were derived from those of the lipstick lesbian flag (three of them directly sampled). The stripes are visually equal in size but have slight variances upon close inspection. Alternate versions with stripes from the [https://hellotierney.com/work/more-color-more-pride More Color More Pride flag] were also offered. At the suggestion of Mod T from ''butch positivity'', shapeshifter-of-constellation proposed that the white stripe could symbolize those who do not identify as butch or femme,<ref name="shapeshifter-of-constellation: Flags">{{Cite_web |url=https://shapeshifter-of-constellation.tumblr.com/post/162570229392/butchspace-i-loooooove-your-orange-butch-flag |title=Flags <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily (shapeshifter-of-constellation) |date=2017-07-03 |archivedate=20211005155813}}</ref> but no meanings were assigned to other individual stripes. Responding to Mod Q, they said the intention of it was a general lesbian flag for anyone in the community, not specifically a femme/butch flag.<ref name="shapeshifter-of-constellation: Response">{{Cite_web |url=https://shapeshifter-of-constellation.tumblr.com/post/162641654327/butchspace-i-loooooove-your-orange-butch-flag |title=Response to flag feedback <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily (shapeshifter-of-constellation) |date=2017-07-05 |archivedate=20211230164157}}</ref>
-The Tumblr user Nillia made a post in April 2018 about the history of butchphobia and criticized using lipstick lesbian stripes for all lesbians; the orange butch flag was reposted as an example of "some very obscure butch designs of unknown date. Most use warm colors." Nillia's seven-striped flag design for all lesbians used the top two pink and bottom two red color codes of the lipstick lesbian flag, and a white center stripe between stripes in a new light pink and a new light orange.<ref name="Nillia: Suggestion">{{Cite_web |url=https://nillia.tumblr.com/post/173451867160/lesbian-history-butchphobia-flags-and-a |title=Lesbian History: Butchphobia , Flags, and a Suggestion |author=Nillia |date=2018-04-30 |work=[https://nillia.tumblr.com Button-Up Scribbles.] |archivedate=20190716051159}}</ref>
-In June 2018, sadlesbeandisaster posted about her ideal lesbian pride flag, which she said would use the top half of the pink and the bottom half of the orange flags but orient the orange on top; she included an image matching that description.<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 1">{{Cite_web |url=https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com/post/174514713156/honestly-my-ideal-lesbian-pride-flag-would-be-the |title=Honestly my ideal lesbian pride flag...<small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2018-06-03 |work=[https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com my url is sad lesbean disaster not sadles bean] |archivedate=20190517192432}}</ref> The image in this post appears to be shapeshifter-of-constellation's rotated and resized.{{#tag:ref |The images from the respective flag post by shapeshifter-of-constellation and the first flag post by sadlesbeandisaster have been carefully compared. While six of the color codes in both images are direct matches for the pink and orange flags, the lighter pink in both images (#d162a6) differs from the corresponding stripe in the pink flag (#d063a6). Their variance in stripe sizing also matches, with neither being a match for those of the pink flag or the orange butch flag; for instance, the orange stripe is the largest and the light orange is the smallest in shapeshifter-of-constellation's and sadlesbeandisaster's images but not in the butch flag. Shapeshifter-of-constellation used the same height (345px) as the orange butch flag but a narrower width (575px) to have a 5:3 aspect ratio; the image in sadlesbeandisaster's post has a close match to that aspect ratio using smaller dimensions than shapeshifter-of-constellation's (85.9%). The subsequent posts by sadlesbeandisaster have different color codes, such as a pure white #FFFFFF stripe, with larger dimensions and different stripe size variances; they no longer match shapeshifter-of-constellation's image. |group = note}} Sadlesbeandisaster has since said she did not steal and invert shapeshifter-of-constellation's flag but rather got the idea to combine the butch and pink flags while talking with a friend and is not surprised other people had that same idea.<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tweet 1">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/theemilygwen/status/1417108147177619463 |title=Twitter thread (1) |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2021-07-19 |archivedate=20210719130610}}</ref> Her friend made the image for her original post, and she has maintained that it is "[her] lesbian flag design".<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tweet 2">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/theemilygwen/status/1417128073439457292 |title=Twitter thread (2) |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2021-07-19 |archivedate=20210719142403 |quote=I didn't even make the original image posted. I asked my friend to do it for me because I was crap with stuff like that. We'd made a couple and I said something like 'wait do one for me that's the top of the butch flag and the bottom of the pink one I think that would look cool'}}</ref> Commentary that sadlesbeandisaster was not the original designer was reblogged by shapeshifter-of-constellation in 2021.<ref name="Reblog">{{Cite_web |url=https://shapeshifter-of-constellation.tumblr.com/post/641870031229190145/shapeshifter-of-constellation-butchspace-i |title=Reblogged commentary <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily (shapeshifter-of-constellation) |date=2021-01-31 |archivedate=20210428202432}}</ref>
-Following the first post, sadlesbeandisaster made an initial proposal of color meanings<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 2">{{Cite_web |url=https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com/post/174559776241/meanings-for-the-colours-of-the-lesbian-flag-i |title=Meanings for the colours... <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2018-06-04 |work=[https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com my url is sad lesbean disaster not sadles bean] |archivedate=20190517192429}}</ref> before posting a version with the following meanings, from top to bottom:<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3">{{Cite_web |url=https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com/post/174618152601/can-people-please-acknowledge-this-version-of-the |title=Can people please acknowledge this version... <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2018-06-06 |work=[https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com my url is sad lesbean disaster not sadles bean] |archivedate=20201215035137}}</ref>
-*'''Red-orange:''' gender non-conformity<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''Orange:''' independence<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''Light orange:''' community<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''White:''' unique relationships to womanhood<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''Light pink:''' serenity and peace<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''Medium pink:''' love and sex<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-*'''Dark pink:''' femininity<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 3" />
-In 2019, sadlesbeandisaster posted an apology for previous comments about [[asexual]] people. She added that she would not apologize for her words regarding identifiers such as "bi lesbian", which she considers to be lesbophobic, harmful, and offensive since she defines lesbians as having no attraction to men.<ref name="sadlesbeandisaster: Tumblr 4">{{Cite_web |url=https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com/post/185383640071/okay-everyone-this-will-be-the-last-post-on-this |title=okay everyone, this will be the last post on this topic, so if anyone is searching my blog for ace discourse, this is what to look at |author=Emily Gwen (sadlesbeandisaster) |date=2019-06-05 |work=[https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com my url is sad lesbean disaster not sadles bean] |archivedate=20210403074336}}</ref>
-====Community lesbian pride flag====
-[[File:Lesbian Flag 5 stripe.svg |thumb |right |300px |The five-striped lesbian pride flag, also called the community lesbian pride flag]]
-The community lesbian pride flag originated in a poll called the "[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdttb_iBX6m9EI4k9VaQVnfTfFBxc1SBXsr1B2-0VYHjuq03Q/viewform Official Lesbian Flag Poll]", which was posted on Tumblr<ref name="official-lesbian-flag: poll">{{Cite_web |url=https://official-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/175406002884/official-lesbian-flag-poll |title=Official Lesbian Flag Poll |author=official-lesbian-flag |date=2018-06-30 |work=the search for the official lesbian flag |archiveurl=https://archive.is/i0CmP |nolive=1}}</ref> and Twitter on June 30, 2018.<ref name="lesbianflag: poll">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/lesbianflag/status/1013075032514416641 |title=Tweet (1) |author=[https://twitter.com/lesbianflag Official Lesbian Flag] (@lesbianflag) |date=2018-06-30 |archivedate=20201215041509}}</ref> By July 25, Catherine (then under the username [https://purrfectbycath.tumblr.com taqwomen]) had suggested a five-striped and three-striped modification of the design attributed to sadlesbeandisaster.<ref name="official-lesbian-flag: five">{{Cite_web |url=https://official-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/176284375674/taqwomen-taqwomen-has-someone-done-this-i |title=Edits by taqwomen <small>(untitled)</small> |author=official-lesbian-flag |date=2018-07-25 |work=the search for the official lesbian flag |archivedate=20200810134852 |nolive=1}}</ref>
-Catherine's five-striped suggestion was announced on August 28 as the poll winner.<ref name="lesbianflag: results">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/lesbianflag/status/1034419322289094656 |title=Tweet (2) |author=[https://twitter.com/lesbianflag Official Lesbian Flag] (@lesbianflag) |date=2018-08-28 |archivedate=20211027030146}}</ref>
-Meanings were later given to the five colors by the Tumblr user birdblinder. They are, from top to bottom:<ref name="lesbianflag: meanings">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/lesbianflag/status/1059477130415951878 |title=Tweet (3) |author=[https://twitter.com/lesbianflag Official Lesbian Flag] |date=2018-11-05 |archivedate=20210611183601}}</ref>
-*'''Dark orange:''' transgressive womanhood<ref name="lesbianflag: meanings" />
-*'''Light orange:''' community<ref name="lesbianflag: meanings" />
-*'''White:''' gender non-conformity <ref name="lesbianflag: meanings" />
-*'''Light pink:''' freedom<ref name="lesbianflag: meanings" />
-*'''Dark pink: ''' love<ref name="lesbianflag: meanings" />
-In addition to the poll that produced the community lesbian pride flag, other polls regarding lesbian flag designs were circulated on Tumblr in 2018. The Tumblr user chiaroscura (under the username allukazaoldyeck) ran two polls that concluded by June 6, 2018, with the design credited to sadlesbeandisaster winning.<ref name="allukazaoldyeck: results">{{Cite_web |url=https://allukazaoldyeck.tumblr.com/post/174635579783/lesbian-flag-poll-data-results |title=Lesbian Flag Poll Data Results |author=chiaroscura (allukazaoldyeck) |date=2018-06-06 |archivedate=20180610054222 |nolive=1}}</ref> The which-lesbian-flag blog moderated by Cas and Niv ran a two-round survey beginning in July 2018.<ref name="which-lesbian-flag: The Lesbian Flag Survey">{{Cite_web |url=https://which-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/176118494372/the-lesbian-flag-survey |title=The Lesbian Flag Survey |author=which-lesbian-flag |date=2018-07-21 |archivedate=20201215035156}}</ref> Prior to the conclusion of the first round, they announced the removal of the pink flag derived from Natalie McCray's lipstick lesbian flag, citing the creator<ref name="which-lesbian-flag: About the next survey">{{Cite_web |url=https://which-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/176953882707/about-the-next-survey |title=About the next survey |author=which-lesbian-flag |date=2018-08-13 |archivedate=20220102162131}}</ref> calling an Asian woman an "anorexic freak"<ref name="McCray: My Worst Date Ever">{{Cite_web |url=https://thislesbianlife.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/my-worst-date-ever |title=My Worst Date Ever |author=McCray, Natalie |date=2018-07-18 |archivedate=20100723170940 |nolive=1}}</ref> as the primary reason.<ref name="which-lesbian-flag: About the next survey" /> After the removal, the top pick of the first round was<ref name="which-lesbian-flag: The Results!!">{{Cite_web |url=https://which-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/177034131657/apologies-we-meant-to-announce-this-sooner-but |title=The Results!! |author=which-lesbian-flag |date=2018-08-15 |archivedate=20211231192632}}</ref> a [[:File:Lesbian_Flag_apersnicketylemon.png |flag design]] by apersnicketylemon,<ref name="apersnicketylemon">{{Cite_web |url=https://apersnicketylemon.tumblr.com/post/173994129517/so-i-did-a-lesbian-flag-redesign-because-really |title=SO I did a lesbian flag redesign... <small>(untitled post)</small> |author=apersnicketylemon |date=2018-05-17 |=work=[https://apersnicketylemon.tumblr.com The Lemon Void] |archivedate=20210719231428}}</ref> which also emerged as the winner of the second round.<ref name="which-lesbian-flag: part two!!">{{Cite_web |url=https://which-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/177865044372/lesbian-flag-survey-part-two |title=Lesbian flag survey part two!! |author=which-lesbian-flag |date=2018-09-08 |archivedate=20191212175708}}</ref><ref name="which-lesbian-flag: Time for the results"> {{Cite_web |url=https://which-lesbian-flag.tumblr.com/post/179010424917/this-was-going-to-be-longer-because-we-originally |title=Time for the results |author=which-lesbian-flag |date=2018-10-13 |archivedate=20211231190334}}</ref>
-The "Commercial Lesbian Flag Poll", which began in mid-December 2018, aimed to select a flag that could be mass-produced by Pride merchandise companies. The poll author said the reason for the poll was that the companies they reached out to required a consensus on the design. The designs included<ref name="Commercial Lesbian Flag Poll">{{Cite_web |url=https://creatoroflesflagisracist.tumblr.com/post/181118123277/selecting-an-alternative-lesbian-flag-for-mass |title=Commercial Lesbian Flag Poll (please only lesbians vote) |author=creatoroflesflagisracist |date=2018-12-14 |work=[https://creatoroflesflagisracist.tumblr.com The Creator Of The Lesbian Flag Is Racist] |archivedate=20190426213433}}</ref> were Gilbert's six-stripe rainbow flag, Lydia's Sappho lesbian flag, apersnicketylemon's flag, and taqwomen's five-striped flag. Although the poll included the seven-striped flag, the poll creator said they reached out to sadlesbeandisaster but originally did not receive permission to include it in a poll that would produce a result sold for profit.<ref name="Alternative Lesbian Flag Poll">{{Cite_web |url=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKjnTtHB0Up2YgsBNG-m4frw5wJlMct3Ahwi1YpPnyEu9Pyw/viewform?usp=sf_link |title=Selecting an Alternative Lesbian Flag for Mass Production |archivedate=20210614155705}}</ref> After the five-striped design won, it was intentionally not called an "official" flag; the poll creator called it the "Community Lesbian Flag" to reflect the community process that led to its selection for production.<ref name="">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/lesflagisracist/status/1107301651403157505 |title=Thread of tweets |author=[https://twitter.com/lesflagisracist new Lesbian flag dropped] (@lesflagisracist) |date=2019-03-17 |archivedate=20211011061237}}</ref>
-For Disney's Rainbow Disney Collection in 2021, the company released an enameled Mickey Mouse head pin with the community lesbian flag colors.<ref name="Disney">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.shopdisney.com/mickey-mouse-icon-pin-lesbian-flag-rainbow-disney-collection-465055189818.html |title=Mickey Mouse Icon Pin – Lesbian Flag – Rainbow Disney Collection |work=[https://www.shopdisney.com shopDisney] |archivedate=20210602050151}} ''(Disclaimer: commercial content link)''</ref>
-===Distinction===
-====Sapphic====
-{{Main |Sapphic}}
-The distinction between "sapphic" and "lesbian" depends upon which definitions are used for each word. They are often confused for each other or thought to mean the same thing, as both refer to women who are attracted to other women.<ref name="Autostraddle: Why Sapphic Is Back In Style">{{Cite_web |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/why-sapphic-is-back-in-style-definition-meaning-trend |title=Why 'Sapphic' Is Back In Style |author=Chandra |date=2021-08-09 |work=[https://www.autostraddle.com Autostraddle] |archivedate=20210813161334}}</ref> In contemporary usage, sapphic has become an [[umbrella term]] specifically inclusive of women with [[multisexual]] orientations (such as [[bisexual]], [[pansexual]], and other [[queer]] women) who may or may not be attracted to men,<ref name="Autostraddle: Why Sapphic Is Back In Style" /> while "lesbian" is often (but not always) defined as a woman [[Monosexual|only attracted]] to other women;<ref name="TLP: Lesbian" /><ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia" /><ref name="Health of LGBT People" /> both terms are inclusive of non-binary<ref name="ABC's" /> and transgender identities.<ref name="TLP: Lesbian" /> "Sapphic" is thus generally understood as the broader term when lesbians are defined as women who ''exclusively'' love women and when sapphics are defined as ''all'' women loving women. Different definitions of the words change that distinction.
-===Controversy===
-====Defining "lesbian"====
-For over a century, lesbians have been debating the terms used to refer to themselves. Along with definitions created or endorsed by lesbians, others were created by non-lesbians, such as male psychiatrists and sexologists. Debates have often centered on whether a lesbian must be a woman who is exclusively attracted to and only has sex with other women. Despite the importance of having a clear definition, there is still no singular definition of "lesbian", and many definitions are incompatible with each other.
-Lesbians have variously been defined based on sexual behaviors, sexual attractions, and/or self-identifying with a lesbian identity.<ref name="Lesbian Health">{{Cite_print |titlepart=Defining 'Lesbian' |title=Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future |date=1999 |contributor=Solarz, Andrea L. |publisher=National Academies Press |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45094/#a20006489ddd00021}}</ref> Although they are often defined as women who are solely attracted to women,<ref name="TLP: Lesbian" /><ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia" /><ref name="Health of LGBT People" /> another common definition is women ''primarily'' attracted to other women.<ref name="Trevor Project: Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities" /><ref name="LGBTIQ+ Health Australia" /><ref name="Health of LGBT People" /> For instance, some women who are multisexual identify as both bisexual and lesbian, which would not be included in a definition that specifies lesbians only have a same-gender orientation.<ref name="Lesbian Health" /> Definitions also vary in whether or not they explicitly include people who do not identify only as women.<ref name="ABC's" /><ref name="Stonewall: List of LGBTQ+ Terms" /><ref name="Queer Adolescence" />
-In Germany, during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), lesbian magazines published debates from contributors and letters to the editors to regarding lesbian identity. Some argued that a woman who was married to a man or had ever had sex with a man should be excluded from the lesbian community. Others defended women who had relationships with both women and men, whether because they were self-identified bisexual women or out of pragmatic reasons related to economic needs and the contemporary social setting.<ref name="Queer Identities and Politics in Germany" />
-Twentieth century psychoanalysts approached lesbianism as a psychological disorder that must be "cured" and turned into heterosexuality. In 1954, Frank S. Caprio published ''Female Homosexuality: A Psychodynamic Study of Lesbianism'', which provides an overview of that perspective. While some lesbian women were described as exclusively intimate with other women and not men, he wrote, "Many lesbians are ''bisexual'', oscillating between heterosexual and homosexual activities, and are capable of gratifying their sexual desires with either sex. Their homosexual cravings may be ''transitory'' in character." In addition, he claimed, "Many bisexual lesbians indulge in what might be called pseudo-heterosexual relations insofar as intercourse with a man tends to counterbalance their homosexual guilt. They wish to be seen with men to camouflage their homosexuality. Actually they prefer the love of their own sex." Like many other psychoanalysts, he believed lesbians were repressing their heterosexuality and only seemed "frigid" with men due to unresolved conflict, which resulted in unconscious defense mechanisms to avoid sex with men.<ref name="Female Homosexuality">{{Cite_print |author=Caprio, Frank S. |title=Female Homosexuality: A Psychodynamic Study of Lesbianism |publisher=The Citadel Press |date=1954 |url=https://archive.org/details/femalehomosexual00capr}}</ref>
-Caprio disagreed with another author, Antonio Gandin, that lesbians could be classified as either "sapphists or tribades", instead supporting an anonymous writer's division into "predominantly mannish" and "predominantly feminine". Caprio's glossary defined lesbianism based on sexual acts, and the only kind of love mentioned was erotic. It included the following definitions:<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Bisexuality''. A sexual interest in both sexes; the capacity for pleasurable relations with either sex."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Homosexuality''. Sexual relations between persons of the same sex."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Lesbian''. A female homosexual."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Lesbianism, Lesbian Love''. Female homosexuality; the erotic love of one woman for another; the relationship may consist of kissing, breast fondling, mutual masturbation, cunnilingus or tribadism."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Sapphism''. Homosexual relations between two women."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Sapphist''. One who performs cunnilingus on another woman."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Tribade''. A woman who practices tribadism."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-*"''Tribadism''. The act of one woman lying on top of another and simulating coital movements so that the friction against the clitoris brings about an orgasm."<ref name="Female Homosexuality" />
-Marijane Meaker's ''We Walk Alone'', released in 1955 under the pseudonym Ann Aldrich, is a non-fiction book presented as an insider's look into lesbians by a lesbian. She reported what psychoanalysts of the time claimed about lesbianism as a disorder of immature and abnormal women. Several "types" of lesbians were described: the butch, the fem, the latent lesbian, the "one-time" lesbian, the repressed lesbian, and the bisexual lesbian (divided into the flirt and the one-night-stand adventuress). Contrary to her treatment of bisexual and lesbian women as separate in her 1952 novel [[Lesbian pulp fiction#Spring Fire|''Spring Fire'']],<ref name="Spring Fire">{{Cite_print |author=Meaker, Marijane (as "Vin Packer") |title=Spring Fire |publisher=Gold Medal Books |date=1952}}</ref> she presented bisexual women as a type of lesbian who is consistently involved with men and women rather than having a single or occasional experience with either.<ref name="We Walk Alone">{{Cite_print |author=Meaker, Marijane (as "Ann Aldrich") |title=We Walk Alone |publisher=Gold Medal Books |date=1955 |url=https://archive.org/details/wewalkalonegoldm00aldr}}</ref>
-Edward Sagarin (as "Donald Webster Cory"), a gay man who spent time observing and interviewing members of the lesbian organization [[Daughters of Bilitis]], wrote ''The Lesbian in America'' in 1964. He described some lesbians as exclusive lesbians who fell into the number 6 rating on the [[Alfred Kinsey#Kinsey Scale|Kinsey Scale]] (exclusive homosexuality), rather than the ratings 4 or 5 (predominantly homosexual); other non-heterosexual women were bisexual in their inclinations, activities, or both. Sagarin offered a lesbian definition that included attraction and self-identification:<ref name="The Lesbian in America">{{Cite_print |author=Sagarin, Edward (as Donald Webster Cory) |title=The Lesbian in America |publisher=Macfadden-Bartell |date=1964 |url=https://archive.org/details/lesbianinamerica00cory}}</ref>
-{{Quote|A lesbian is a woman who feels a strong and urgent need, usually a chronic or continuing or recurring need, to have close, intimate carnal contact with another woman, and whose drive for sexual contact with men, if it is not entirely absent or replaced by fear, disgust, horror, and repulsion, is at least very weak. A lesbian, in short, is a girl who feels that she is a lesbian, and who, whether she is happy or sad, accepting or rebelling against her condition, identifies herself as being part of that group.|speaker=Edward Sagarin (as "Donald Webster Cory")|source=''The Lesbian in America'', 1964}}
-In Lilian Faderman's book ''Surpassing the Love of Men'', she said that lesbianism had previously been defined by men as just a sexual preference or a sexual act between women. She criticized German lesbians in the early 20th century who had identified as having an inborn trait in common with male homosexuals, such as those who related to the "third sex" concept, and who considered themselves born different from heterosexual women. Faderman repeatedly claimed that being lesbian was a choice that any woman could make if she was truly committed to women's liberation, and said lesbian-feminists had created their own definition in the 1970s:
-{{Quote|Women are lesbians when they are women-identified, they asserted. Never having had the slightest erotic exchange with another woman, one might still be a political lesbian. A lesbian is a woman who makes women prime in her life, who gives her energies and her commitment to other women rather than to men. Some even proclaimed, 'All women are lesbians,' by which they meant that potentially all women have the capacity to love themselves and to love other females, first through their mothers and then through adult relationships.|speaker=Lilian Faderman|source=''Surpassing the Love of Men'', 1981}}
-Other definitions of lesbian have been created in online communities and have been discussed via social media. Definitions of lesbian based on the term "non-men", such as the phrase "non-men loving non-men", may have emerged between April and June 2020.{{#tag:ref|An approximate range has been estimated based on the following: a) increased Google searches worldwide for "lesbian", "lesbian women", and "lesbian men" beginning in April; b) increase in "lesbian"-related additions to Urban Dictionary beginning in May that appear to be responding to online discourse; c) edit warring on the LBBTA Wiki that began on May 26, 2020;<ref name="LGBTA Wiki: 2020">{{Cite_web| url=https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Lesbian?oldid=5926 | title=Lesbian (Revision as of 16:28, 26 May 2020) |author=Chaoticcylinder |date=2020-05-26 |work=LGBTA Wiki |archivedate=20220121100321}}</ref> and d) the coining of "vixenamoric" specifically in response to the "non-men" definition.<ref name="Vixenamoric">{{Cite_web |url=https://twitter.com/ssapphrodite/status/1277945495416197124 |title=Tweet |author=ssapphrodite and sapphickitty |date=2020-06-30| archivedate=20200630124940 |nolive=1}}</ref>|group = note}} On July 4, 2021, the LGBTA Wiki introduced the phrase "queer attraction to women" as a general definition while noting that a single definition cannot encompass all experiences.<ref name="LGBTA Wiki: 2021a">{{Cite_web| url=https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Lesbian?oldid=110363 | title=Lesbian (Revision as of 23:15, 4 July 2021) |author=Reign of the breadsticcs |date=2021-07-04 |work=LGBTA Wiki |archivedate=20220121101237}}</ref> A blog post further explained the reasoning behind the administrators' new definition.<ref name="LGBTA Wiki: Blog">{{Cite_web| url=https://lgbta.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000171800 |title=Explaining the new definition on the Lesbian page |author=Clear.Skyes |date=2021-07-11 |work=LGBTA Wiki |archivedate=20220121102848 }}</ref> Multiple administrators were sent threatening and abusive messages; as a result, the article was locked against further edits and the comments feature was disabled.<ref name="LGBTA Wiki: 2021b">{{Cite_web| url=https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Lesbian?oldid=114008 |title=Lesbian ‪(‬Revision as of 11:38, 14 July 2021) ‪|‬date=2021-07-14 |work=LGBTA Wiki |archivedate=20220121103810}}</ref>
-===Perceptions and discrimination===
-====Health care====
-In the United States, lesbians face significant disparities in health care. Providers often lack adequate education about specific needs of LGBTQIA+ populations, and may hold homophobic or [[heterosexist]] beliefs. Lesbians are less likely to seek gynecological care for prenatal care or family planning; however, gynecological care includes screenings for cervical and breast cancer and testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Lower rates of accessing gynecological care may be related to cancers and STDs remaining undetected and untreated. Financial barriers such as lack of health insurance also impact health care access.<ref name="Encyclopedia of Women's Health: History">{{Cite_print |author=Koroukian, Siran M. |titlepart=History of Women's Health in the United States |title=Encyclopedia of Women's Health |contributor=Loue, Sana and Sajatovic, Martha (eds.) |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |date=2004 |isbn=0306480735}}</ref>
-====Stereotyping====
-[[Gender expression]] is a separate concept from sexual orientation, so various traits that are considered [[feminine]], [[masculine]], or otherwise are not indicative of a lesbian identity. Lesbians have often been stereotyped as having "masculine" appearances and interests. Lesbians are not automatically masculine,<ref name="Trevor Project: Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities" /> but they can be; for instance, butch lesbians are a well-known identity.<ref name="Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" />
-==Media==
-===Lesbian pulp fiction===
-{{Main|Lesbian pulp fiction}}
-* [[Lesbian pulp fiction#Women's Barracks|Women's Barracks]] (1950)
-* [[Lesbian pulp fiction#Spring Fires|Spring Fire]] (1952)
-* [[Lesbian pulp fiction#Whisper Their Love|Whisper Their Love]] (1957)
-===Other literature===
-*''Stone Butch Blues'', ''Drag King Dreams'', and non-fiction works by [[Leslie Feinberg]]
+info abt me is on the right ->
-===Film===
-*''But I'm a Cheerleader''
-*''D.E.B.S.''
+but to be specific abt my gender & attraction (:">):
-===Television===
-*Many characters in [[w:c:the-l-word:The L Word|''The L Word'']] and [[w:c:the-l-word:Generation Q|''Generation Q'']], such as [[w:c:the-l-word:Bette Porter|Bette Porter]], [[w:c:the-l-word:Dana Fairbanks|Dana Fairbanks]], and [[w:c:the-l-word:Shane McCutcheon|Shane McCutcheon]]
-*Many characters in [[w:c:orange-is-the-new-black:Orange is the New Black |''Orange is the New Black'']]
-*Kate Kane and Ryan Wilder from ''Batwoman''
-*[[w:c:tardis:Bill Potts|Bill Potts]] in [[w:c:tardis:Doctor Who|''Doctor Who'']]
-*[[w:c:eastenders:Binnie Roberts|Binnie Roberts]] and [[w:c:eastenders:Della Alexander|Della Alexander]] in [[w:c:eastenders:EastEnders|''EastEnders'']]
-*[[w:c:friends:Carol Willick|Carol Willick]] and [[w:c:friends:Susan Bunch|Susan Bunch]] in [[w:c:friends:Friends|''Friends'']]
-*[[w:c:lostgirl:Lauren|Dr. Lauren Lewis]] in [[w:c:lostgirl:Season 1|''Lost Girl'']]
-*[[w:c:orphanblack:Cosima Niehaus|Cosima Niehaus]] in [[w:c:orphanblack:Orphan Black (TV series)|''Orphan Black'']]
-*[[w:c:sense8:Nomi Marks|Nomi Marks]] in [[w:c:sense8|''Sense8'']]
-*[[w:c:she-raandtheprincessesofpower:Adora|Adora]] (aka She-Ra) and [[w:c:she-raandtheprincessesofpower:Catra|Catra]] in ''[[w:c:she-raandtheprincessesofpower:She-Ra and the Princesses of Power|She-Ra and the Princesses of Power]]''
-*[[w:c:arrow:Alex Danvers|Alex Danvers]] in [[w:c:arrow:Supergirl|''Supergirl'']]
+i'm a questioning labelflux bicurious muscuflexible culparomantic panalterous panflectic panaesthetic paninvidious panidyllic abnosexual cisgender fealexicon female
-===Comic books===
-*[[w:c:dc:Katherine Kane (New Earth)|Kate Kane]] and [[w:c:dc:Renee Montoya (New Earth)|Renee Montoya]] aka The Question in DC Comics
-*[[w:c:starwars:Chelli Lona Aphra|Doctor Aphra]] in [[w:c:starwars:Star Wars|''Star Wars'']] comic books
+info abt my personality?:
-===Video games===
-*[[w:c:starwars:Juhani|Juhani]] in [[w:c:starwars:Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic|''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'']]
+* enfp-t
-===Other people===
+* 3w2
-*Angela Davis
+* libra
-*Audre Lorde
-*Clea Duvall
-*Jane Lynch
-*Jenny Shimizu
-*Kate McKinnon
-*Lauren Morelli
-*Lena Waithe
-*Raven-Symoné
-*Robin Roberts
-*Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was posthumously revealed to be the first lesbian astronaut and first lesbian in outer space.
-*[[Stormé DeLarverie]], civil riots icon and key figure in the [[Stonewall riots]]
-*Wanda Sykes
+some of my fandoms (?):
-==Resources==
-*[https://www.autostraddle.com Autostraddle] &mdash; Digital magazine for lesbian culture
-*[https://www.cal.org.za Coalition of African Lesbians]
-*[https://europeanlesbianconference.org Eurocentralasian Lesbian* Community (EL*C)]
-*[https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org Lesbian Herstory Archives]
-*[https://www.nclrights.org National Center for Lesbian Rights] &mdash; Legal resources and assistance (U.S.)
-*[https://www.sapphokolkata.in Sappho for Kolkata] &mdash; Activism for lesbian, bisexual woman, and transman rights (Eastern India)
+* taylor swift
-==Notes==
+* dove cameron
-<references group="note" />
+* harry potter
+* gwdfi
+* + more (i cant think rn ☠)
-==References==
-{{Scroll|{{Reflist}}}}
+feel free to talk to me & say hi! <3
-[[Category:Articles to be expanded]]