Rand Bishop
Mar 27, 2022

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Interesting verbiage. As a noun, lesbian means a woman whose primary sexual attraction is to other women... a gay woman, as it where.

As an adjective, lesbian is commonly used to describe or qualify something about the person and/or persons of similar sexual orientation, but not the person herself... as in, "She is in a lesbian relationship," or, "We're going to a lesbian bar." However, I've never heard of someone saying, "I"m lesbian." Gay, yes. Queer, yes.

Maybe this is too niggling a nitpick. If so, I apologize.

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Rand Bishop
Rand Bishop

Written by Rand Bishop

Bishop's latest book, the semi-autobiographical novel, Long Way Out, is available in e- and print editions through most major online booksellers.

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