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The term is a neologism and a deliberate play on words; the word "history"—via Latin historia from the Ancient Greek word ἱστορία, a noun meaning 'knowledge obtained by inquiry' [1] —is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his. [2] In fact, the root word historia is grammatically feminine in Latin. Lesbian Herstory ...
Lesbians, Levis and Lipstick: The Meaning of Beauty in Our Lives (1st ed.). The Haworth Press. ISBN 0-7890-0661-8. Faderman, Lillian (1991). Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America (1st ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231074889. Greenberg, David F. (2008). The Construction of Homosexuality ...
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia. New York, Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-3629-6. Lattas, Judy, "Queer Sovereignty: the Gay & Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands", Cosmopolitan Civil Societies journal, UTS September 2009; Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New ...
Two men at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear indicate their identity with the word gay. Terms used to describe homosexuality have gone through many changes since the emergence of the first terms in the mid-19th century. In English, some terms in widespread use have been sodomite, Sapphic, Uranian, homophile, lesbian, gay, and queer. Some ...
Johns Hopkins University removed an online glossary of LGBTQ terms this week after its definition of the word "lesbian" used the term "non-men" to refer to women and some nonbinary people and ...
Number of countries protecting core LGBT-rights The following is a timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) history in the 20th century. 1900s 1901 – On 8 June 1901, two women, Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sanchez Loriga, attempted to get married in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain). To achieve it Elisa had to adopt a male identity: Mario Sánchez, as listed on the marriage ...
History of lesbian fashion. In her new book, “Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion,” historian Eleanor Medhurst documents the course of lesbian fashion, which she said is frequently ...
JoJo Siwa Through the Years Read article Late last month, Siwa, 19, faced backlash after she detailed her coming out journey and her relationship with the word lesbian.