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<ref></ref><blockquote>'''Warning:''' This page requires a heavy rework as it's lacking citations and uses colloquial language. Please do not use this page as fact until it is cleaned up.</blockquote>{{Sexuality Info|title1=|image1=Lesbian flag.jpg|caption1=Sadlesbeandisaster's lesbian
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[[Non-Binary]]|gender(s)_attracted_to:=[[Women]]<br>
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'''Lesbian''' (also known as '''Gay Woman'''<ref>https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lesbian</ref>, '''Homosexual Woman'''<ref>https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100100998</ref>, or '''Female Homosexual''') is defined as [[women]], [[Fiaspec|women-aligned]] ([[selenian]]), and/or [[Fingender|feminine-aligned]] ([[artemian]]) individuals who experience [[gay]] [[attraction]] to [[women]]/[[Lunarian|lunarians]] and/or [[feminine]] individuals. This [[attraction]] is most commonly used as exclusively wlw/nblw attraction, as communities surrounding exclusive wlw/nblw have become the primary part of the lesbian community. However, there is no one perfect definition that encompasses all experiences of lesbianism. This term includes [[butch]], [[femme]], [[non-binary]], [[anonbinary]], [[cusper]], and [[multigender]]ed individuals. Lesbians are the female counterparts to [[Gay Men|gay men]] and fall under the [[homosexual]]/[[homoromantic]] and [[monosexual]]/[[monoromantic]] [[umbrella]]s.
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In 1999, Sean Campbell introduced the labrys lesbian flag, the first flag design specifically for lesbians.<ref>[https://www.pride.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags-0 The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags]</ref> The design involves a labrys on a black triangle with a purple background, since all three have historical significance in the lesbian community. The labrys was associated as a weapon used by the Amazons of mythology and in the 1970s it was adopted as a symbol of empowerment by the lesbian feminist community. The black triangle was used by the by the Third Reich to identify "asocial women", which included lesbians. Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle. The violet background is because violet associated with lesbians because of the poetry of Sappho. This flag is sometimes associated with [[TERF
In 2010, Wordpress blogger Natalie McCray announced her proposed design for a lipstick lesbian flag, using a design plagiarized from Fausto Fernós' 2008 cougar pride flag.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151119165126/https://thislesbianlife.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/lipstick-lesbian-pride/ Lipstick Lesbian Flag]</ref><ref>[https://medium.com/@faustofernos/the-lipstick-lesbian-flag-idea-was-stolen-from-my-design-of-a-cougar-pride-flag-which-was-designed-ad2d18ae00c1 Medium post "The Lipstick Lesbian Flag idea was stolen from a drag queen."]</ref><ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/feastoffools/2414971431/ Cougar Pride Flag designed by Fausto Fernós.]</ref> McCray's lipstick lesbian flag is not intended for all lesbians, just lipstick lesbians, meaning all other kinds of lesbians are excluded. Variations upon this stolen design have since become very popular on Tumblr. However, the creator is problematic, as she has made several racist comments (and tried to justify them by saying she herself is a POC), has been actively biphobic, anti-sex worker, butchphobic, and lesbiphobic. She and her flag have caused a lot of harm to gender non-conforming lesbians and the lesbians her flag was designed to exclude, exclusion which promoted even greater exclusionism from the individuals who started using the flag.
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File:2018 lesbian flag proposal.png|Five striped version of sadlesbeandisaster's flag.
File:LabrysLesbianFlag.png|The Labrys lesbian flag.
File:Lesbian pride labrys flag without triangle.svg|Labrys flag without triangle
File:LipstickLesbianFlag.jpg|Lipstick lesbian flag (plagiarized)
File:Lesbianflag.png|Modified lipstick lesbian flag
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