Lesbianism is not mentioned in theHebrew Bible, in contrast to male homosexual behavior, which is expressly forbidden as a capital crime. The absence of discussion of lesbianism in this context has raised scholarly interest.
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such at that of North America, is an act of resistance.
Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
At the 2008Lambda Literary Awards (the awards the LGBT community gives to books ignored by straightbook awards) not a single lesbian book nominated for bestnovel was published by amainstream press. Ourliterature is disappearing at the same time we are being told we are winning our rights. How can we beequalcitizens if ourstories are not allowed to be part of ournation's story?
Sarah Schulman,The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012), p. 151
Forever in love with the word. Lesbian. The slow sexuality of it, a snake in the mouth.