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Questioning youth are at higher risk for victimization, suicidal thoughts, and drug and alcohol abuse even more so than lesbian, gay and bisexual youth, possibly due to marginalization from straight and LGB peers alike. [24]
These women – of all ages and backgrounds – called the Lesbian Line with questions about their sexuality from 1993 to 1998. They discovered the line (which was only able to run for two days a ...
Into the mid-1970s, lesbians around the world were publishing their personal coming out stories, as these came few and far between at the time. In addition to coming out stories, lesbians were publishing biographies of lesbian writers who were misplaced in history, looking for examples of who they were and how their community came to be.
"The lack of a standard definition of lesbian and of standard questions to assess who is lesbian has made it difficult to clearly define a population of lesbian women." [5]: 22 How and where study samples were obtained can also affect the definition. [5]: 22
Although identical in meaning, LGBT may have a more feminist connotation than GLBT as it places the "L" (for "lesbian") first. [13] LGBT may also include additional Qs for "queer" or "questioning" (sometimes abbreviated with a question mark and sometimes used to mean anybody not literally L, G, B or T) producing the variants LGBTQ and LGBTQQ.
Research over the last decade has found that lesbians have more orgasms than straight women, but questions remained as to why.. A new study published this month in the journal Social Psychological ...
It was founded by lesbian members of the Gay Academic Union who had organized a group to discuss sexism within that organization, specifically Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallo, Pamela Oline, and Julia Stanley. Lesbian activist Barbara Gittings remained in the LGBT movement in the 1970s.
The way lesbians are portrayed leads people to make assumptions about individuals in everyday life. [63] Typically, lesbians are stereotyped as belonging to one of the two following categories: "butch and femme". Butch lesbians dress in a more masculine manner than other women.