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{{Sexuality Info|image1=Sapphicflag.png|caption1=The sapphic flag.|gender(s):=Woman/woman-aligned/non-binary|gender(s)_attracted_to:=
'''Sapphic''', also known as '''woman loving woman''' ('''WLW'''), '''girls loving girls''' ('''GLG'''), '''
The term can be used as a modifier combined with other identities to show that one emphasizes or prioritizes their attraction to and relationships with other women/enbys. It may also be used as an identity on
It can be used as the non-exclusive counterpart to [[lesbian]]. Lesbian and sapphic are the woman-loving-woman
There is also [[sapphixic]], which is the overlap between [[trixic]] and sapphic.
== History ==▼
== Etymology==▼
The word ''sapphic'' comes from the name of the Greek poet ''Sappho''. The island she was born on, Lesbos, is where the word lesbian is derived from.▼
Sapphic is also a type of poetry comprised of four line stanzas of similar meter.<ref>[https://poets.org/glossary/sapphic Poets.org entry on sapphic.]</ref> Sapphic poems are historically popular and written by
▲==Use in History ==
Although historians use the term sapphic retrospectively,<ref>[https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo18991225.html ''The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830'', Susan S. Lanser, University of Chicago Press.]</ref><ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/4053569 "Reviewed Work: ''English Sexualities 1700-1800''by Tim Hitchcock" by Dennis A. Rubini for scholarly journal ''Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies''.]</ref> the first use of sapphic as a [[sexual orientation]] was by sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in his pamphlet "Sappho and Socrates: Or How is the Love of Men and Women for Persons of Their Own Sex Explained?"<ref>[https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0008/bsb00089681/images/index.html?id=00089681&groesser=&fip=qrsxsxsyztsxdsydxdsydxdsydxdsydeayaxs&no=3&seite=5 Digitally archived version of "Sappho und Sokrates: Oder wie erklärt sich die Liebe der Männer und Frauen zu Personen des eigenen Geschlechts?" (in German).]</ref>
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As a response to the difficulty of replicating the violets in the center, Tumblr user pride-color-schemes simplified the flag and created the modern sapphic flag on June 25, 2017.<ref>[https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/162230388064/sapphic Tumblr post with the new, simplified sapphic flag.]</ref>
The [[Demisexual|demi]]-sapphic flag was created by an anonymous wiki user on August 3, 2021. It is the sapphic flag in the demi- flag format. The dark grey stripe stands for [[A-Spec|a-spec]] attraction. This flag can be used for [[Sexual Attraction|sexual]], [[Romantic Attraction|romantic]], and [[Tertiary Attraction|tertiary]] attraction.
==Gallery==
<gallery widths="
File:Tumblr oiicogKkOW1vgrjllo1 1280.png|The original sapphic flag.
File:Download (1).jpeg|An alternate version of the original sapphic flag.
File:840155B1-B9FC-46BD-B32F-51507986CB6E.jpg|The midnight sapphic flag by @wintermidnight_
File:Sapphic 1.png|An alternate sapphic flag by
File:Static-assets-upload17632410360388193122.png|
File:Sf.png
File:Screenshot 2021-04-25 9.52.12 PM.png|An alternate of the original sapphic flag by
File:6 23 2021 8 24 43 PM.png|An alternate sapphic flag by a-marianra-sauce.
File:Demisapphic.png|The demisapphic flag
</gallery>
▲==Etymology==
▲The word ''sapphic'' comes from the name of the Greek poet ''Sappho''. The island she was born on, Lesbos, is where the word lesbian is derived from.
▲Sapphic is also a type of poetry comprised of four line stanzas of similar meter.<ref>[https://poets.org/glossary/sapphic Poets.org entry on sapphic.]</ref> Sapphic poems are historically popular and written by people of all genders.
==References==
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