A lesbian is a homosexual woman. This means a woman who is sexually attracted to other women, and not to men. Sappho wrote mostly poems about love. Many of her love poems are written to women. So her name and the island where she lived make people think about women who love women. Sometimes lesbians are also called Sapphists from the name Sappho. Lesbians were involved in the early feminist a movement of women who want to be treated equally to men movement. Feminism is the political and social movements that promote women's equality and rights. However, there was conflict between lesbians and straight heterosexual women in the feminist movement. In the s and s some straight women who like men feminists wanted the lesbians out of the women's rights movement.

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