Word: lesbian
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Gays have spent remarkable amounts of time and energy trumpeting their contributions to civilization. But their loyal lesbian sisters have received comparatively little attention and acknowledgement. How many years will it take before society takes the time to stop and look back on the dazzling panoply of lesbian accomplishments...
Most people, when the word "lesbian" is mentioned to them, simply respond with "Yabba!" or some similar expression of fear, squeamishness or disgust. Of course most of us know lesbians, or at least known of lesbians. We see them everyday. But we don't really know about lesbians and we stubbornly refuse to make any effort to address our ignorance. The time has come for us to acknowledge that lesbians have made many notable contributions to society...
...look at lesbian literary luminaries. Looking at the contributions they have made to the single field of literature, my own field of specialization, shows how much they have enriched history. I have three questions...
...know that the great writer Gertrude Stein, herself an 1897 graduate of this fair institution, was a lesbian? (Well, now you know. And knowing is half the battle...
They have enabled us to move on to consider a purer form of love. Lesbian love is marked by an absence of a dominated party and a dominating party. Thus lesbian relationships are characterized by perfect equality of partners. Lesbian love also allows us to move away from narrow and repressive notions of phallocentric love. Thanks to lesbians, we can discard outdated, penetration driven models of intimacy that have created so much trouble in the world...