“These women are called femmes, and their appearance is often deceiving. They dress in clothing associated with wholly feminine women, and an uninitatied person would never suspect them of sexual deviation.”
“I dreamt I misplaced my pocketbook. When I turned around to retrieve it, I noticed a gay girl had run off with it.”
From “Oy Vey, You’re Gay” to “The Deadlier Sex” to “Holy Lesbo Batman!” and beyond!
ELLE Magazine asks if we’re post-LGBT because Kristen Stewart and kids these days just aren’t labeling themselves like they used to and so in this post what happens is that we all talk about the labels we use for ourselves and then y’all can talk about that or whatever you want, really.
From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.
Are you a running shoe lesbian who likes to make vulva hands? There’s only one way to find out.
“God-insulting grannies.”
“Probably the devil is involved”
“She was regarded as mentally wrong by young men.”
“The fact that both male and female homosexuals congregate on one island no doubt gives them a sense of what might be called herd-security, much like sheep gathering together under a tree during a storm.”
“It is true that sapphism is also to be met with in quite young girls, but only if they live in houses of prostitution or in girls’ colleges.”
Conversations among their own group consist of sexual gossip, certainly in excess of what we might have designated as “good taste.”
Are you the college girl, the office girl, the career gal, the prostitute, the matron, the man-hater, the bohemian, the frigid wife, the dull dyke or the unsuccessful heterosexual?
“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”
“Sex with a woman for me has involved pressing mound of Venus against mound of Venus on each other’s leg.”
“From midday until 2 pm, during the hours of greatest heat, when all are in this condition and the mistress falls asleep on the sofa… all the girls, without one exception, masturbate themselves.”
“Has a firmness to her walk, a long step, and a rather heavy timbre to her voice.”
You’ll never hold a bowling ball the same way again.