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{{Sexuality Info|image1=Sapphicflag.png|caption1=The sapphic flag.|gender(s):=Woman/woman-aligned/non-binary|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Woman/woman-aligned (exclusively or not)}}
{{Sexuality Info|image1=Sapphicflag.png|caption1=The sapphic flag.|gender(s):=Woman/woman-aligned|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Women/women-aligned (exclusively or not)}}'''Sapphic''', also known as '''woman loving woman''' ('''WLW'''), '''girls loving girls''' ('''GLG'''), '''LBPQ''' ([[Lesbian]], [[Bisexual]], [[Pansexual]], [[Queer]]), '''difemina''', or '''sapphist''', refers to a [[woman]] or woman-[[Gender Alignment|aligned]] person who is attracted to other women or woman-aligned people. They may or may not be attracted to other genders as well. This attraction does not need to be exclusive, as the label is used as a way to unify all women or women-aligned people who love other women such as lesbians, bisexual women, pansexual women, queer women, and other [[Multisexual|m-spec]] women, promoting solidarity among women of all identities who are attracted to other women.▼
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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. It may also be used as an identity on it's own, and may be found particularly useful for people who know they are attracted to women but may be uncertain if they are attracted to other genders. It can also be used to describe a relationship between two women.▼
▲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
== History ==▼
It can be used as the non-exclusive counterpart to [[lesbian]]. Lesbian and sapphic are the woman-loving-woman counterparts to [[faunic]] and [[daunic]], which are non-men-loving-non-men.
The [[non-binary]] counterparts are [[diamoric]] and [[enbian]]. The [[mascic]] counterpart is [[julietian]]. The male counterpart is [[romeric]]. The MLM counterpart is [[achillean]] or [[vincian]].
There is also [[sapphixic]], which is the overlap between [[trixic]] and sapphic.
== 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==
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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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