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==Exclusive Lesbian Attraction==
:''{{hatnote|Main articles: [[Mono-Lesbian]]s, [[Lilaen]]s}}''
It is important to remember that lesbians with exclusive attraction and lesbians with non-exclusive attraction both face different issues, and thus should not speak for one another, but rather speak together on the many sides of lesbianism.
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===Bi-Lesbians===
'''[[Bi-Lesbian
===Pan-Lesbians===
'''[[Pan-Lesbian
===Omni-Lesbians===
'''[[Omni-Lesbian
===Ply-Lesbians===
'''[[Poly-Lesbian
===Straightbians===
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==Gender-Based Lesbianism==
Although females and feminine-[[aligned]] individuals are the ones typically seen identifying as lesbian, there are exceptions and non-female lesbians, despite them not being in the majority.
===Female Lesbians===
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===Non-Binary Lesbians===
'''[[Non-Binary Lesbian
Some specific forms of non-binary lesbianism are '''[[Agender Lesbian]]s''', '''[[Bigender Lesbian]]s''', '''[[Genderfluid Lesbian]]s''', '''[[Lesbian Demigirl]]s''', '''[[Librafeminine Lesbian]]s''', and '''[[Xenic Lesbian]]s'''.
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'''Masc Lesbians''' are individuals who identify as male or masculine in a non-traditional sense (through being multigender, non-binary men, [[Agender Man|agender men]], women-aligned men, etc.) that have lesbian attraction towards women. Male lesbians may or may not identify with terms such as '''[[Lesboy]]''' and/or '''[[Lesboi]]'''. Cisgender binary men are the only men, queer or not, who can't identify as lesbians.
Men who are women-aligned are inherently non-binary, so [[Selenian|women-aligned]] men, as well as [[neutral]]-aligned men, [[Artemian|feminine-aligned]] men, [[Xenic|xeno-aligned]] men, and other [[enboy|non-binary men]] with varying alignments, are queer and their experiences should never be forced to fit binary manhood, as they are unique, and they are non-binary and therefore deserve to be respected in queer and lesbian spaces.
In general, binary men cannot be lesbians. However, while being trans makes them no less of men in any way, some binary trans men may choose to still identify with the label/community if they identified as such before realizing they were men and still feel some form of connection to the term and community despite realizing they were men. This is up to the individual trans man, as they may feel more safe continuing to identify as lesbian/be part of lesbian spaces, either due to personal history, discomfort with male spaces due to trauma from cis men, or other personal reasons.
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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.
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* Light pink represents serenity and peace. Pink represents love and sex.
* Dark pink represents femininity.
Though the second most popular flag is commonly attributed to her over shapeshifter-of constellation and Catastrfy, Sadlesbiandisaster did not create the design. She has gone on to say she excludes m-spec lesbians, does not support the usage of Queer as an identity, or recognize the historical use of butch and femme by those who are not Lesbians. She was previously exclusionary of cis ace-spec individuals, but changed her position on this in 2019<ref>https://sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com/post/185383640071/okay-everyone-this-will-be-the-last-post-on-this</ref> (though in the post where she stated this, she maintained her lack of support for m-spec lesbians). This, combined with her plagiarization of her design from shapeshifter-of constellation and Catastrfy, has made her claim to creating the flag controversial in the community.<ref>https://shapeshifter-of-constellation.tumblr.com/post/162570229392/butchspace-i-loooooove-your-orange-butch-flag</ref>
A five stripe orange and pink design was created by purrfectcath (previously taqwomen/shimmeringatoms<ref>https://twitter.com/lesflagisracist/status/1395889683951808513</ref>) on or before July 25th, 2018 for the purpose of more easily producing physical flags and merchandise.<ref>https://official-lesbian-flag-blog.tumblr.com/post/176284375674/taqwomen-taqwomen-has-someone-done-this-i</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/lesflagisracist/status/1107301689231581184</ref> According to polls conducted by lesbianflag on Twitter / official-lesbian-flag-blog on tumblr, a large amount of individuals prefer this design for the lesbian flag.<ref>https://twitter.com/lesbianflag/status/1034419322289094656</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winning_Orange-Pink_Lesbian_Pride_Flag.png</ref> This is currently the most commonly used lesbian flag on the internet.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian</ref><ref>https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Lesbian</ref>
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*[[Iridian]]
*[[Larimarian]]
*[[Lesbiangender]]
*[[Lesbiagender]]
*[[Lesbienboric]]
*[[Neptunic]]
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#[https://www.scribd.com/document/114298533/Love-Your-Enemy-The-Debate-Between-Heterosexual-Feminism-and-Political-Lesbianism Love Your Enemy - The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism (scribd.com)]
#[http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/bisex_movements_S.pdf Bisexual Movements (glbtqarchive.com)]
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#[https://books.google.com/books?id=eaS0AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=when+separate+bisexual+community+began&source=bl&ots=FWMx3OzYss&sig=s3R3Nof97qiTAzg5J1SvueJUODk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja7cbptI_YAhWH5yYKHZ5NAuwQ6AEIQDAE#v=onepage&q=when%20separate%20bisexual%20community%20began&f=false when the bisexual community began to form separately]
#[https://twitter.com/StarNosedMoles/status/1416247867463802882 👤 on Twitter: "Lesbian Psychologies; Explorations and Challenges, 1987. Edited by the Boston Lesbian Psychologies Collective https://t.co/klUSNYYOb7" / Twitter]
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