lesbian:
1. A homosexual woman . (There is no corresponding eponym for a homosexual or gay male.)ETYMOLOGY: From the Greek isle of Lesbos (now Mytilene) whence came the lesbian poet Sappho (620-565 BC), an island where female and male homosexuality flourished in pre-Christian times.
QUOTES:
(1) Lesbian Opal Gilstrap (Raye Dowell) in She's Gotta Have It (1986): ' You're not born a lesbian or heterosexual . Both traits are within us. We all have the potential to go either way .'
(2) Rachel (Liza D'Agostino) and Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) in Bar Girls (1994):
-- Rachel: ' Do you think I'm gay? '
-- Loretta: ' What do you mean? '
-- Rachel: ' Well, how do you know for sure? '
-- Loretta: ' You just know that's all. It's like being French . Either you are or you're not .'
(3) Pino (Anthony de Sando) and a lesbian in Kiss Me Guido (1998):
-- Pino: ' You're a lesbian? Hey, I'm sorry. You like girls? That's cool , me too, but you have no desire to do-it with a guy? '
-- Lesbian: ' Do you? '
-- Pino: ' That's disgusting! '
-- Lesbian: ' Exactly .'
(4) Romy White (Mira Sorvino) complaining about the scarcity of interesting menales in a bar , and her friend Michelle Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (1998):
-- Romy: ' I swear to God, sometimes I wish I were a lesbian .'
-- Michelle: ' You want to have-sex sometimes just to see if we are? '
-- Romy: ' Just the idea of having-sex with another woman creeps me out ..., but, if we're not married by the time were thirty, ask me again .'
(5) Frederic Mullally in The Penthouse Sexicon (1968): ' One whose attitude to the fair-sex is: "If you can't join 'em, lick 'em ."'
2. Pertaining to lesbians or lesbianism.
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