Unlike male homosexuality, lesbianism was not criminalised but rather ignored.
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Lister's close relatives knew about her lesbianism, and everyone else speculated.
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I started to write about lesbianism and a lesbian character, rather.
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Tradition-minded Bolivians call her an anarchist and revile her lesbianism.
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"I think I will always be documented as lesbianism," she told WSOC.
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The movie includes allusions to casual, even institutional lesbianism on Paradise Island.
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Stop using lesbianism to sell your clothing… we're not garnish for me. 2.
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Stop using lesbianism to sell your clothing.. we're not garnish for men 2.
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The way he and Ms. Nagy present it, lesbianism obviates a male gaze.
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The major change in the contemporary woman's revolution is the issue of lesbianism.
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And although Tanzania does not have a specific law forbidding lesbianism, Zanzibar does.
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"It falls into the trap of using lesbianism as shock value," he told me.
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Basically: Unspoken lust is the cornerstone of lesbianism, and they had it in droves.
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SOLOSKI Yes, the lesbianism was handled so delicately it became more or less invisible.
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Certain writers also point to the erotics of androgyny; others, to plain old lesbianism.
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While their lesbianism didn't define them, their relationship was definitely intended to be humorous.
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I agreed — Nanette seemed like it wasn't going to be much more than Lesbianism 101.
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Unless, of course, mine was the kind of lesbianism that existed only for male consumption.
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There, she lost her glasses, briefly experimented with lesbianism, and started a Marxist comedy troupe.
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Her lesbianism was a source of conflict and comfort and helped shape her feminist politics.
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"There's always this narrative around homosexuality and lesbianism, that it should be guilty," she said.
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In his scholarly writing and his comics, Marston insistently, deliberately portrayed lesbianism as normal and good.
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Lesbianism, to many, is a means of expressing rebellion toward the existing society through sexual freedom.
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They had marginalized lesbianism by not scheduling any specific events about it during the workshop period.
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Practical Magic knows that simply having women in proximity to each other does not lesbianism make.
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As they mock what they assume, despite Alberga, is her lesbianism, some also threaten her sexually.
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I didn't expect to have a profound reckoning with my relationship to my own lesbianism and womanhood.
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"I can attest to the lesbianism of The Hands," my gay BuzzFeed colleague said upon careful inspection.
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Still, Murray's disinclination to identify as a lesbian rested partly on a misprision of what lesbianism means.
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By 1993, they opened their doors to the public, inviting in anyone looking to learn about lesbianism.
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In the show, murder and lesbianism feel existentially linked, like two great tastes that taste great together.
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There is virtually no depiction of lesbianism, since women were not granted the sexual freedoms men were.
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But we find our minds unfocused from lesbianism when we face the problem of procreation and child care.
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American poet laureate Kay Ryan's self-censored lesbianism contrasts with current generations that actively market themselves as queer.
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She also dons numerous bandanas, which we all know is the definitive mark of lesbianism in the 2000s.
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By giving back voice to the depicted, Aguilar prevents her images from devolving into hardened stereotypes of lesbianism.
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Don't worry about her: She'll soon be happily sipping Between the Sheets cocktails with the Bankheads and contemplating lesbianism.
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Curiously enough, they told her that "lesbianism" was listed as a medical condition to prevent her from being offended.
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But the gallery attendant persuaded me that the lesbianism of Gertrude Stein is now often overlooked, even sometimes forgotten.
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Akinwunmi said "lesbianism kills teams" at a meeting of sports writers in Ibadan city, according to the Punch newspaper.
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Kenya's Film and Classification Board (KFCB) said 'Rafiki' was banned because of intent to "promote lesbianism," in the country.
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I always get accused of being into stuff that's like fake-lesbianism, but I don't really think that's true.
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Lesbianism, particularly masculine-of-center, gender-nonconforming lesbianism, is still pretty much a joke in popular culture — we are the mean softball coaches, the grouchy cat ladies, the predatory bull dykes, the one-line bits of comic relief — so do we really want to give straight people more reasons to laugh at us?
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Kenya's Film and Classification Board (KFCB) said Thursday "Rafiki" was banned because of intent to "promote lesbianism," in the country.
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Instead, the characters feel cut and pasted from some emoji file labelled "scowling brunette," then outfitted with lesbianism or bossiness.
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How would you say queerness and lesbianism have shaped your relationship and made it different from, say, a regular adoption?
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At a time when homosexuality was still being criminalized, Rich had acknowledged her lesbianism , while Sontag was silent about hers.
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Maybe it would take some of my lesbianism away, or maybe it could just make me a little bit less asthmatic.
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And if children got the message that lesbianism was acceptable, normal, and fun — well, Marston, Elizabeth, and Byrne would certainly approve.
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At last year's event activists held banners reading "Transactivism erases lesbianism", prompting organisers to apologise for the "bigotry, ignorance and hate".
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"Jane Roe," coming out as a lesbian, then turning to strict Catholicism and repudiating both her lesbianism and Roe v. Wade.
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But their lesbianism became known to police investigators, and that was enough for them to question Ms. Zielonko as a possible suspect.
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It also focuses largely on gay men, with fewer details on trans identities, bisexuality, and lesbianism, which all figured in these stories.
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Socially, lesbianism has become a bit more "normal", so it's not really got that aura of, "What do you girls do?" any more.
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In 2007, Paisley Jr, who was re-elected last week, told Hot Press magazine he was "pretty repulsed" by gay people and lesbianism.
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All of that is less a convincing case for her convoluted heterosexuality than for her culture's harsh assessment of the possibilities of lesbianism.
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Jen (Genevieve Angelson) just as sadly accepts Della's choice, because she is a kind, conflict-avoidant Southerner and an insecure latecomer to lesbianism.
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I was just beginning to come into an awareness of my own lesbianism and treasured this intimate catalog of queer missteps and revelations.
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" But when she testified again at trial, according to court documents, she backtracked, saying, "I can't be certain that the word 'lesbianism' was used.
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For example, Dee Rees's Pariah, a critically acclaimed coming-of-age story about lesbianism that's more candid about gender dissidence, didn't transcend indie circuits.
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In March, Mr. Swanson dedicated a radio program to denouncing Girl Scout leaders for promoting "lesbianism," and suggesting that they be put to death.
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Lesbianism buried the play in scandal, ending its short-lived run on Broadway with obscenity charges for the play's 12-member cast and its producer.
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One stand-out, "Curious," has a knowingly loaded title; you almost expect an experimentation pop bop that treats lesbianism as a bit of harmless dabbling.
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The difference, of course, is that Adams's work involves a female saying something to a male, while Chandler references lesbianism by way of Agnes Martin.
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Only a small minority of voters absorbed made-up accounts of Hillary Clinton's endorsement by Islamic State, lesbianism and links to a child-sex ring.
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The idea of women in prison brings out the horny teenage boy in many of us—perhaps it's the implied lesbianism—but there's also something deeper.
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In 2016, a local network dropped a podcast called "Spread," which discussed sex and sexuality, after Mr. Mutua accused its female co-hosts of promoting lesbianism.
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The government should apologize to him and all the other men (lesbianism was not criminalized) who were made to bear the stigma of the unjust laws.
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However, the East African country banned it in April on the grounds that it promotes lesbianism.. The deadline for a release in Kenya is Sept. 30.
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Contemporary essays praising second-wave strategies like militant celibacy and political lesbianism invoke Dworkin implicitly, even as their authors shy away from occupying her staunch positions.
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The schemes, too, ranged all over the diabolical map, from Herbert Hoover's secret business deals to bankrupt the U.S. to a C.I.A. plot to spread lesbianism.
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The sweet-faced Ms. Reynolds played against type — opposite Shelley Winters, no less — in this macabre thriller about murderous sons, religious fanaticism, lesbianism and bunny rabbits.
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The GBTQI community has used the genius, bravery and intelligence of these black lesbians to strengthen and fortify the modern gender-identity movement—without mentioning their lesbianism.
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It's a recipe that, if executed poorly, could have fallen prey to age-old issues dealing with LGBTQ representation on-screen, like queerbaiting or male-fantasy lesbianism.
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The smooch was immediately written off by another character as "faux-lesbianism," but fans have been eager to see the characters defy the standard heteronormative Archie storyline.
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The girl survives the Countess's lair, and dies later when questioned by one Dr. Garth, who the Countess has sought out for counsel with her vampirism/lesbianism.
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It's a long tale, best saved for a second date, but let's just say it involved lesbianism at a time with few role models for queer parenthood.
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By presenting a palatable vision of lesbianism for the widest possible audience, she's become one of the most important modern figures in the fight for mainstream gay acceptance.
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"The film has been restricted due to its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law," a statement from the board said.
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Last month the board banned "Rafiki", a film about two women falling in love, on the grounds that it promoted lesbianism - in violation of another colonial-era law.
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" According to Smith, stories like this "focus on letting us in on the 'exotic' appeal of lesbianism but then backpedal into reestablishing the status quo of heteronormative fiction.
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" This came soon after another meeting in which they say Weisenberg had said that lesbianism is not tolerated on Pepperdine's team, adding, "It is the reason why teams lose.
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Lesbianism is as ancient as the cosmos, yet it is a threat to patriarchy because it does not centre males, nor does it seek male wisdom, power or validation.
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Some of you think that the cover fetishises lesbianism- I do get that (hey, I fetishise it too I guess-I like women!) and your voice has a point.
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I love that the Ocean's 8 costumer dressed Cate with gay abandon, combining the unabashed queerness of vest culture with loose-tie-2000s-lesbianism and somehow making it work.
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Sischy was open about her own lesbianism (I remember she once invited me to her country house, which she called "Petticoat Junction," but I wasn't free that weekend, alas).
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Mr. Reynolds, who toured the country with Ms. Houston during the promotion of her debut album, described her lesbianism as "an open secret" at Arista during those early years.
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He turned up supporting evidence (photos, explicit Super 8 footage from 1965) and filmed Liz Smith, the late gossip columnist, confirming the lesbianism of Ms. Hepburn, a longtime friend.
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He took her to a police station, entering through a back door, and ordered her to remove her clothes while he touched himself and asked her questions about lesbianism.
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Riverdale puts the subtext and fandom of the comics on display, as Betty and Veronica make out within the first episode, only to have Cheryl shoot down their faux-lesbianism.
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Wade, and Freedom of Choice, included abortion-rights sentiments along with details about dysfunctional parents, reform school, petty crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, an abusive husband, an attempted suicide and lesbianism.
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Adam's critics think that Gillian's plotline falls into another harmful queer stereotype: that of the lesbian who is "cured" of her lesbianism when she has sex with a cis guy.
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The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism"—by the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group argues that, "The heterosexual couple is the basic unit of the political structure of male supremacy.
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But the classification board, headed by CEO Ezekiel Mutua, found that there was "a clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya" in the film, which, it said, goes against the law.
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Political lesbianism, after all, didn't quite work out the first time around, and our desires don't necessarily make us any more morally righteous than those who desire differently than we do.
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Gadsby, admirably, is no longer willing to be self-deprecating about lesbianism on stage at the Sydney Opera House or for the enormous audience she's amassed on Netflix after shooting her special.
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According to the motion, the spring 2014 Leadership Council meeting during which Weisenberg made his comments about lesbianism doesn't actually prove that their coach was anti-gay or against same-sex relationships.
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For some queer women in the 1990s and aughts, the show was their first glimpse of lesbianism onscreen and the incandescence of living in a world beyond the purview and validation of men.
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I know my asthma is severe, and I've self-diagnosed online and concluded I have a very serious case of lesbianism, so I prescribe myself the maximum dosage—ten drops, four times a day.
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She had, in fact, an exaggerated fear of lesbianism, and in the late '50s was sent into a tailspin of depression when she discovered herself mentioned in a scholarly book about lesbian-themed writing.
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According to WSOC, Kristina Rodriguez had just had blood work done by her medical service provider, Lake Park Family Practice of Carolinas Healthcare System, when she saw "lesbianism" listed under medical problems on her record.
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The danger with Shay is her passivity: Irene is managing her sobriety and keeping her pimp, Rodney (Method Man), at bay, and Shay seems to fall into lesbianism, too, out of accommodation more than desire.
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An article last Sunday about the slow rise of lesbianism on TV misstated which season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" featured a scene in which the characters Willow and Tara are shown in bed together.
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Rodriguez doesn't want anyone else to have to see their sexuality listed as a condition, and said that her doctor offered to remove "lesbianism" as a medical problem and move her sexuality to the notes section.
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"Indeed, it is our considered view that the moral of the story in the film is to legitimize lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the board's content classification guidelines and the constitution of Kenya." the statement read.
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"At the same time as [the lesbianism depicted in these films] was a turn-on for men, it was also an expression of anxieties about what was going on in the early women's movement," says Weiss.
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This is the only show, after all, to have ever focused so completely on lesbianism, to the extent that the world it created, made up of seemingly infinite queer women and, like, two men, was downright fantastical.
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Being out with my same-sex desire wasn't really an option at that time, not just because bisexuality was considered a girls' party trick and lesbianism plain weird, but every crush I'd had on girls bordered on obsession.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nigerian gay rights activists have condemned a senior soccer official after he said sponsors were reluctant to back women's soccer in the country because of a misconception that female footballers are "synonymous with lesbianism".
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With such a powerful re-adjustment of perspectives, Maleficent foretold of more old narratives to be looked at with a female gaze, with new lines of desire—including lesbianism and other kinds of female queerness—to be redrawn.
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The show's producers and writers received criticism for its lack of relevance and diversity — all valid points — but I must say, The L Word reframed "lesbian," activated a popular cultural conversation that centered lesbians, and gave lesbianism star appeal.
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Up until recently, some of the nation has acted as though lesbianism didn't exist outside of porn and Ellen Degeneres, and acted as if girls only turn to dating women if they had a bad experience with a man.
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"Many potential sponsors have shied away from supporting the women's game because of the misconception that it is synonymous with lesbianism," he said in a statement on Tuesday to clarify his comments at the meeting in Nigeria's southwestern Oyo state.
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Sprouting from the radical feminist movement within the 1970s second wave, political lesbianism is related to lesbian separatism, and promotes the idea that a woman can break from heterosexuality and simply refuse to incorporate sex with men into their lives.
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Homoerotic desire between women during the Edo period remains largely unexplored, as there isn't much literature on female romance or lesbianism; what researchers do know, however, is that the print was most likely designed by a male artist, as many were.
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Ali's exploratory, politicized lesbianism offends her more traditional girlfriend (Carrie Brownstein, who also shows up for a minute in "Carol") and amuses the roving, rapacious Sarah, who, while stewing in a sauna, basically says that she couldn't care less about the patriarchy.
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It was an unlikely thing for Minucci's story and her lesbianism to come out; given the extensive policing of sexuality for United States service-members throughout history, so few personal histories of queer people in the armed forces will ever be known.
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Every Major Female "Star Trek" Character, Ranked By Lesbianism What's new about the recent revelations is that they show the extent to which today's deep-pocketed helicopter parents have gone into overdrive, using brazen schemes to corrupt the college admissions process yet more.
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It was disappointing that even after Jay-Z—who is arguably the biggest rapper in the world— embraced his mother's lesbianism publicly on his album 4:44 that hip-hop still feels reluctance to pushing the cultural needle forward on queer acceptance.
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The reality, however, is a fair and democratic voting system featuring a panel of men and women binge watching sex scenes for weeks on end while goring on a constant supply of snacks and debating the finer points of lesbianism and BDSM.
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But while other Yiddish writers of his time wrote mostly about life in Eastern Europe and how Jewish immigrants made their transition to American life — although he wrote about them too — he ventured beyond the shtetl and explored topics such as prostitution and lesbianism.
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Here's a guide to each chic suit, lavish coat, or drab chef's jacket worn by the Carol actress that shoved me deeper into the throes of lesbianism: The items of this outfit sound nefarious when parsed out individually: A pin-striped, mustard yellow collared shirt?
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THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES (1996)By Eve Ensler At the time this series of monologues, performed as a one-woman show by the author, was released, they were viewed as revolutionary for their frank and sometimes disturbing discussion of topics like childbirth, rape and lesbianism.
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Steeped as I was in a world insisting on heterosexuality as the norm — even when it made me, my now-divorced parents, and most of my friends profoundly unhappy — I hadn't previously realized (or dared to believe) that lesbianism was an option for me.
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One of the things that made The L Word so great, despite its many failings, was that the characters weren't just incidentally gay, like so many characters on television today; they considered lesbianism to be an important part of their identities and their culture.
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In ongoing recovery, I cultivate a strong sense of entitlement to finding pleasure in my body through good sex, which, for me, now requires creativity; wildness; and subverting and enjoying the seedy, marginalized attitudes toward sex that both my lesbianism and chronic pain taught me.
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"We have previously said that living daily under conditions stemming from active lesbianism practiced in the home may impose a burden upon a child by reason of the 'social condemnation' attached to such an arrangement," Justice A. Christian Compton wrote in the majority opinion.
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And this isn't even getting into Marston's erotic novel about Julius Caesar in which he describes lesbianism as "perfect," nor the Wonder Woman comics, in which women tie each other up, spank each other, and dress up as deer in order to mime eating one another.
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Rather, it's about how the show depicted one's inner demons as outer threats—with female robots an analog for consent, witchcraft a way to depict lesbianism, and hyena demons (yes, really) a metaphor for peer pressure—and impart lessons on finding empowerment in the blurring of gender roles.
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On first dates, at gay book clubs, when meeting new colleagues — in pretty much any situation where you, an awkward lesbian, are trying to reach across the void and connect with someone else who has lesbianism, if not awkwardness, in common — The L Word is an easy bet.
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Steve Lacy's skittering subtlety on guitar and solid quietude on bass suit what we might as well call her spirituality, a gentleness that never comes across genteel or weak or connects explicitly to her unassuming lesbianism, although you begin to sense a yen for serious romance after enough fooling around.
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Crosland and Jenkins were friends long before they found themselves seated around the cabinet table, but few people knew that they had had a short but intense affair after meeting at Oxford in 1938, when male homosexuality was still punishable by a prison sentence (there was no law against lesbianism).
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I don't think Gadsby is necessarily saying that lesbians shouldn't make jokes about the struggles of lesbianism, but I do think she's raising crucial questions about how we approach the production and distribution of queer comedy and art for a mainstream audience, versus queer art that is by us and for us.
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According to interviews and details from the lawsuit they'd eventually file against Pepperdine, the women endured meetings during which they say their coach said that "lesbianism isn't welcome on this team," months of prying personal questions from an academic coordinator about whether they were "more than BFFs," and unnecessary requests for Videckis's gynecological records.
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And though motherly female love should never double for lesbianism—both can and should exist concurrently—there was still something gloriously subversive about Angelina Jolie playing the witch-queen of 2014's Maleficent, reframing Sleeping Beauty around the maternal bond the villain feels for Aurora, the girl she curses in a misguided attempt at protection.
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Even under the well-known publishing house Hogarth Press (founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf), the idea of attaching real-name authorship where the content involved lesbianism, and one involving school headmistress and her pupil, was unthinkable, and so the author was presented as written by the eponymous protagonist of Olivia when published.
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" Marx also anticipated forthcoming questions about the racy photo shoot (which falls in line with their previous social media tributes to another), half-joking on Instagram: "Some of you think that the cover fetishises lesbianism- I do get that (hey, I fetishise it too I guess-I like women!)," but told her followers that "your voice has a point.
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"Rafiki" concludes on an optimistic note, and the Kenya Film Classification Board banned the film because of its "clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law" — in May, the nation's high court upheld laws criminalizing gay sex — though the ban was temporarily lifted last year so that it would be eligible for an Academy Award.
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I feel this way because I am a passionate and vocal feminist and identify staunchly as a strong woman, but I express my gender in an androgynous way — I wear female, male, and unisex clothing, have a VERY short pixie haircut, and tend to present fairly masculinely (I am often mislabeled as a lesbian by those who incorrectly associate androgyny/masculinity with lesbianism).
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The first Kenyan film to premiere at the Cannes film festival that was simultaneously banned in its home country for "its homosexual theme and clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya contrary to the law," is one that dares to highlight a relationship between two women in a country where such an "offense" is punishable by almost 15 years in jail.
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For poetry, read If Not, Winter by Sappho (the patron saint of lesbianism, even though she, like plenty of us, had lovers of all sexes), Adrienne Rich's A Dream of a Common Language, Mary Oliver, Gloria Anzaldúa (try Borderlands), Audre Lorde (she, of course, also has some excellent poetry), Wu Tsao (who, in the 1800s, wrote some lovely poems about courtesans), Eileen Myles, and at least attempt some Gertrude Stein poetry.
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" Later, the Polish historian Marek Chodakiewicz, who has been among Mr. Gross's most vicious attackers, and who now occupies a chair of Polish studies at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, wrote that the so-called March of Independence "grew from the need to demonstrate our pride in the fact that we belong to a historical continuity, which is worthy of defending against threats emerging from liberalism and lefty-ism, including Marxism-lesbianism and multiculturalism.
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