SYHOMOSEXUALa woman who is sexually attracted to other women 女同性恋者 → gay
—lesbianadjectiveadj
—lesbianism noun [uncountableU]
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lesbian• Lang was the first major popstar to come out as a lesbian.• You are worried, aren't you, because you think you might be a lesbian.• But as soon as some right-wingrag called her a lesbian, she started screamingdefamation.• I didn't realize I was a lesbian until I was in my twenties.• Reno apparently felt compelled to deny not just that she was a lesbian, but that she had any sexuality at all.• Why else would she not go out with them unless she were a lesbian?• Amitha: I suppose, if asked, I would describe myself as a Black Gujaratilesbian.• Independentlesbian and gay self-organization remains central to any widerproject that we become involved in.• The pressures to be either Black or lesbian make it very difficult and confusing to develop being Black and lesbian.• The conventionalwisdom in the gay community is that 10 percent of the adultpopulation is gay or lesbian.
Originlesbian
(1800-1900)Lesbian“of the Greek island Lesbos”((17-21 centuries)), home of the 7th-century BC female poet Sappho, who was said to be homosexual