I'm so excited and I really want to talk about it! I got the go ahead to do my big paper and presentation that qualifies me for my undergrad degree on the history of woman/woman desire and how that plays out in Shakespeare's plays, alongside how modern productions can engage with female desire to change how they plays function on stage in interesting and powerful ways! I've wanted to write about this for so long and im so excited! So yah if anyone wants to talk about lesbian Shakespeare im here i guess!
This post about the first known conviction of lesbianism in North America might not be accurate.
Legal Case: Elizabeth Johnson, Massachusetts Bay, December 5, 1642
"Unseemly practices"
The Essex County Court, meeting at Salem in Massachusetts Bay, reported the sentencing of a servant, Elizabeth Johnson, for a series of insubordinate and illegal acts.
> Elizabeth Johnson, servant to Mr. Jos. Yonge, [is] to be severely whipped and fined 5 li. [pounds] for unseemly practices betwixt her and another maid; also, for stubbornness to her mistress answering rudely and unmannerly; and also for stopping her ears with her hands when the Word of God was read...
The record adds that Johnson was also punished "for 'spurning an ewe goat till both [mother and offspring?] died'; also for killing a pig and burying it."
> References; Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), pp. 85-86, citing George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County. . . (Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1911), vol. 1, p. 44.
While there is nothing to say that "unseeming practices" meant lesbian, especially with her other charges, it's possible that they were, making THIS the oldest criminal case in America. I did find her birth/death record here...
Elizabeth Johnson 1619-1683
Christening - 2 Sources 22 August 1619 Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England
Death Age 63 Death - 3 Sources 5 January 1683 Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
Iโve been questioning my sexuality and finally settled on โlesbianโ because it feels the most right for me. Iโm not interested in dating guys, but to me thereโs just something appealing about a particular fictional gay pairing. Could I still be a lesbian if I find erotica of them hot, or does it mean Iโm bi?
Sorry if this is TMI! Ive been struggling with this for a while and i was just wondering if anyone else had the same problem. I follow lots of lesbian nsfw subreddits.. 90% of the "porn" they post is...not lesbian? I mean its 2 women but its clearly aimed at a male audience with the girls doing things that im just not into or have ever experienced. Examples are spitting on each other, slapping each other in the face with dildos, Fake overacted kissing where they just lick each others faces, ridiculous positions that look painful or uncomfortable, and the ever present incest/big tit stepmom takes teen daughter stuff etc... I mean to each her own but its just not my cup o tea. Can anyone recommend more intimate lesbian content that shows more realistic stuff where the girls look like they ACTULLY want to be with each other? Kinky is great I just want to see actual lgbt people not straight girls doing it for the cash and clearly not enjoying it.
So our Gender Studies Professor told us to do research regarding specific "gendering" terms used in various languages. We did a little roulette spin to get topics to research on and I got assigned to "Lesbians and Associated Language". By the end of the semester, the information we gathered will be collaborated into our Professor's research on Gender Studies and Culture.
Now, I did my base research, I downloaded textbook pdfs and went through websites. I'm a straight female with multi-gendered friend groups and I asked them all for our local terms (I'm a Filipino so: Bisaya, Illongo, Tagalog, the local gay/lingo and etc.). However, that is the only extent of my reach regarding commonly known international and local terminology.
However, I want your personal terms too. Emphasis on local, especially slang and dialects (If possible, pretty please. :3)
*Ps, please include possible "word origins" or similar words that might've resulted in that word.... especially with slang :)
Thank You!!!
>Female homoeroticism, however, was so common in English literature and theater that historians suggest it was fashionable for a period during the Renaissance.
I read this on wiki and Iโve been wondering what weโre the works during that time that had lesbianism in them?
I feel like this has been alluded to in the discussion about Shame, but not discussed explicitly.
Is part of the stigma because attraction to women is considered to be connected to being AMAB?
Obviously there are plenty of cis lesbians, but there are also plenty of tall cis women, and naturally hairy cis women. And yet these are both things that can trigger dysphoria. Or when a trans women acts aggressive and TERFs attribute it to โmale entitlementโ.
If you told somebody that trans women are taller on average than cis women, that wouldnโt be shocking. If trans women are more likely to be gay than cis women, I can see how that would likewise be attributed to being AMAB, rather than coincidental variation.
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Been trying to find this clip with no luck. It's one of my favorites, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Did it actually happen, or did I just, like, dream it...?
Hi! In my house we are trying to remember a movie where two girls and a man, plan the fake-death of one of the girls to retrieve the life insurance or a black mail her mom, we can't remember. In the movie there were a lot of sex scenes and some of them were lesbian ones. I think the man who helped was a teacher. A lot of the scenes were in a trailer and one in a pool.
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Im a lost almost 21yo whos gaydar is so crappy I didnt even realize I was gay for almost 2 decades. And as I'm coming into my identity as a lesbian, I'm realizing that my strained 'attraction' to men was towards hyperspecific types and only when the stars aligned perfectly. I always said I was picky and had a very specific type; now its blatantly obvious that my type is actually just every woman thats ever blessed me with her existence.
And I'm starting to realize that my attraction to women is part of why I've always had a warped sense of personal style. I have a hard time deciding what I like and how I want to look because there are so many different styles I see on other women that I love and look so right on them, but dont feel like me. Do I want ellen page to dress me or undress me? I cant possibility look like every hot girl, so sweatpants, right?
I think I feel more frustrated about my look now, because I'm going through an almost second puberty. Like holy shit, girls. Omg If I can see girls, than GIRLS CAN SEE ME. I need my eyeliner oh fuck nobody look at me. Ive had a certainly NOT hot girl summer and its really getting frustrating that now I have a reason I want to look good, but no idea how to make that happen. Particularly when looking for fashion references turns into me just looking at girls. Im following a bunch of fashion subreddits, but feel most comfortable with makeup over clothing. But I also hate pink and skirts and glitter and most other femme hallmarks so I don't even feel like I can lean into that. Anyone ever felt the same? Do any of you more experienced wlw have advice? This is hard
lads!!!!!! I went to a party the other day and ended up in a "gay pile" which was literally just like 4/5 homos just vibing on a sofa. Anyways, I held hands with a cute girl and actually felt accepted after moving schools :) Just needed to share my happiness somewhere :) make the yuletide gay x
Sooo this happened over the course of the last 5 days or so. Im a person who loves to write. I write short stories all the time. This time i decided to try something hot and steamy a little erotica, you know soft core porn in word form lol. And i started writing this steamy little sex story.
But thats not the fuck up. I work at a retail store and when we got our stock freight in the other day i found the cutest notebook that has a unicorn on it that looks exactly like the one i have tattooed on my arm. Heres the kicker ... The book was actually a journal you know one of those books with the magnetic close tab meant to be a diary.
I have a million notebooks floating around the house but normally they are just spirials you know normal stuff this is the first one i bought that looks like a diary. So ive written a few chapters of my steamy erotic story in this diary book and the other day i was home alone and decided to take a shower. I left the book sitting on the living room table.
My fiance comes home while im in the shower. He sees this diary like book and i guess his curiosity got the better of him because hes never seen me with this type of book before. He picks it up and reads it. Now pay attention to this detail. The book is written in first person so i speak in a lot of i and me and he. Also its just writing in a book no chapters no title just a book filled with words on a page.
I get out of the shower i notice my fiance is looking at me funny. But he doesnt say anything. The next day my fiance and i are sitting on the couch watching tv and my phone rings i look at it silence it and put it down he says "who was that?" I said "it says scam likely" he gives me the same odd look as before.
So the weekend comes and im getting ready to go to my moms for a dinner party thing shes having (he doesnt like my mom so he wasnt going) and i put on a dress and make up and here is where everything comes up. "Are you really going to your moms?" "Yes love i told you about the dinner party" "why are you putting on makeup?" "You know how extravagant my moms parties are its a classy event babe." Here comes the curve ball "WERE YOU EVER GOING TO TELL ME YOU WERE CHEATING ON ME?
"What the hell are you talking about ive never cheated on you." He walks over to my book shelf pulls the journal book off the shelf and tossed it on the bed. "I read all about you and Damon's little ongoing fling in your diary and now here you are getting all dolled up to go out and prob
... keep reading on reddit โกIt's fucking insane. They believe that they can choose who they're sexually attracted to, and then pass off pretending to be lesbian as feminism.
I've read that it was, but I'm not sure what exactly "controversial" means in this context. Did people get up in arms about it and burn records, or write scathing letters to the editor, or deny it airplay?
