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1 day ago · Lesbianism is the sexual and romantic desire between women. There are historically fewer mentions of lesbianism than male homosexuality, due to many historical writings and records focusing primarily on men.
3 days ago · LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples and cultures around the world. What survives after many centuries of persecution—resulting in shame, suppression, and secrecy—has only in more recent ...
3 days ago · It was also not uncommon for women to live together, and this was often not seen as unusual. “Not until the late 1800s and early 1900s did we get the language to suggest that something was unusual about these two friends. Before then, it was seen within the framework of friendship,” says Skjoldhammer. Therefore, these women were not suspected.
4 days ago · No historical documentation exists of women who had other women as sex partners. Early modern Europe Lesbianism and hermaphroditism, depicted here in an engraving c. 1690, were very similar concepts during the Renaissance.
2 days ago · The historical and contemporary struggles of LGBTQ communities for equal legal and civil rights are discussed in the article gay rights movement; see also same-sex marriage. Brian Duignan. The LGBTQ community is, in any country, region, city, or other locality, a group of persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer and ...
1 day ago · "Historical Views of Homosexuality: European Renaissance and Enlightenment" published on by Oxford University Press. Spanning the Renaissance and the Enlightenment—the 15th/16th to the 18th centuries—the early modern period in Europe sees a fundamental evolution in relation to the conception and expression of same-sex desire.
5 days ago · Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender persons, and queer persons—and calls for an end to discrimination against LGBTQ persons in employment, credit, housing, public accommodations, and other areas of life.
