Romantic, sexual, and emotional attachment between women was named lesbianism after the island of Lesbos, home of Sappho, a Greek poet of the seventh century. Sappho wrote eloquently of her complex passion for her women lovers, and her ancient verses...

A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women.[1][2] Women who are attracted to both women and men are more often referred to as bisexual. An individual's self-identification might not correspond with her behavior,...

In their 14-year relationship, Patricia Spado and Olive Watson spent only five nights apart. They lived in New York, spent summers in Maine, and shared the more practical pieces of a life together _ a home, a joint bank account.But in a time long before...

Arab lesbians quietly defied Islamist protesters and a social taboo to gather at a rare public event Wednesday in a northern Israeli city.Many of the attendees said they were sad that the only place safe enough to hold a conference for gay Arab women was...

A Lutheran church in Chicago has ordained a lesbian who refuses to take a vow of celibacy, becoming the first to test a new resolution that gives bishops leeway in disciplining such violations.The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America requires vows of celibacy for gay but...

A crossposting from the Observer's manly mens' blog, The Cockpit. Chick-on-chick lit Our Bodies, Our Shelves Of all the book galleys that get tossed on our desks on Monday mornings—where the hell do they come from, anyway?— I was probably most stoked about...