Fembio-Specials Famous Lesbians

Fembio-Special: Famous Lesbians

Under the heading “Famous Lesbians”, we bring together a small selection of important women who had or have love relationships with women. For some, these relationships were lifelong and monogamous, for others short-term, fleeting, secret, threatened. Some women had relationships with men as well as women, perhaps they were bisexual, perhaps they just didn't dare... Some women were known to have sexual relationships with women, for others we can only assume.

Living women are only included here if they have made their relationship(s) widely public (such as Kate Millett, Martina Navratilova, Dorothy Allison) or expressly wish to be named, because - however much the lesbian relationship may be affirmed internally - being outed as a lesbian can still have negative consequences in many contexts and circles.

But the more lesbians become visible, the more society will get used to the fact that lesbians are completely normal.

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