* Lesbian Vampire Killers ( 2009 )-A spoof of the lesbian vampire genre.

Lesbian and erotic themes were restrained in early cinema.

Lesbian themes were found in European films such as Mädchen in Uniform ( 1931 ).

Lesbian pulp fiction refers to any mid-20th century paperback novel ( often conflated with pulp magazine fiction ) with overtly lesbian themes and content.

* The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films — Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics is a collection of gay and lesbian film lore covering movies with homoerotic themes and more or less openly gay films throughout the history of film.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is generally called LGBT rights, also called gay rights and gay and lesbian rights.

Lesbian rights groups have gradually formed since 1986 to build a cohesive community that works to overcome philosophical differences with heterosexual women.

The meetings of feminist lesbians of Latin America and the Caribbean, sometimes shortened to " Lesbian meetings ", have been an important forum for the exchange of ideas for Latin American lesbians since the late 1980s.

Lesbian women and straight men have, on average, slightly larger right brain hemispheres.

The terms cisgender and cissexual have more recently been used in publications, such as a 2006 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Julia Serano's 2007 book Whipping Girl, after which the term gained some popularity among English-speaking activists and scholars.

In the last two years, a British Lesbian Cabaret organisation called Lesburlesque have made it part of their mission to promote drag kings on the wider British Cabaret circuit.

West Hollywood also seeks to address the health needs of residents who do not have adequate insurance by subsidizing the LA Free Clinic and The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Rich suggests that Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie's book Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View may have been an unacknowledged source of inspiration for Heavenly Creatures, which according to her created a distorted image of the Parker – Hulme murder case.

Wolden was responsible for materials that stated, " You parents of daughters — do not sit back complacently feeling that because you have no boys in your family everything is all right ... To enlighten you as to the existence of a Lesbian organization composed of homosexual women, make yourself acquainted with the name Daughters of Bilitis.

The Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service in Newtown provides free telephone counselling for gays and lesbians living in NSW, as well as Twenty 10, a support organisation for young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, same-sex attracted and gender-questioning people who are under 26 and having problems at home or have recently become homeless.

Lesbian and bisexual females have the opposite trend, with fewer attempts during the teenager years compared to heterosexual females.

Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.

The Greyhound has been undergoing a multi-million dollar redevelopment since 2008 which has seen live music make way for a predominantly Gay & Lesbian clientele, building upon the successful Saturday night drag shows that have been running at the venue for over 15 years.

Since then, Everett has participated in public activities ( leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ), played a double role in the film St. Trinian's, and has appeared on TV several times ( as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, as a presenter at Live Earth and as guest host at Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project among others ), but has made much news for making shocking comments and remarks at interviews that have caused public outrage.

More recent years have seen the establishment of a counseling room for young gay men in 1976, the first AIDS candlelight vigil in 1986, the 1992 inauguration of Tokyo ’ s annual International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Japan ’ s first lesbian and gay pride parade in 1994, and the founding of its first gay community center, AKTA.

These include professional clubs where the student body strengthens and builds relationships with world-leading external companies ( examples include the consulting, investment banking and marketing clubs ), athletic clubs where students have the opportunity to compete against both other Kellogg teams and students from other leading business schools ( examples include basketball, flag football, hockey, rugby and soccer ), cultural clubs where students can connect with other students with similar backgrounds ( examples include the India Business Club, Asian Business Association, Hispanic Management Association, Black Management Association, Women's Business Association and the Gay & Lesbian Management Association ) and social / community service clubs where students have the opportunity to enjoy similar passions in a setting conducive to forming strong bonds with their peers ( examples include Brew n ' Q, Kellogg Cares, Cork & Screw and Kellogg Volunteers ).

In 2002 a lesbian couple, Marié Fourie and Cecelia Bonthuys, with the support of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, launched an application in the Pretoria High Court to have their union recognised and recorded by the Department of Home Affairs as a valid marriage.

In the meanwhile, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project had also launched a separate lawsuit directly attacking the constitutionality of the Marriage Act, which was originally to be heard in the Johannesburg High Court ; the Constitutional Court granted the Project's request to have it heard and decided simultaneously with the Fourie case.

* Lesbian activist Anna Rueling used the term in her 1904 speech, " What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?

* Michele Forsten ( 1976 ), Co-founder, New York City Lesbian Cancer Support Consortium

There is no one organization that represents all LGBT people and their interests, although there are two organizations that are inclusive of many of the LGBT community issues: InterPride by coordinating and networking gay pride events worldwide, and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( IGLHRC ), which addresses human rights violations against LGBT and HIV-positive people and works with the United Nations.

This era saw a resurgence of militancy with direct action groups like AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ) ( formed in 1987 ), and its offshoots Queer Nation ( 1990 ) and the Lesbian Avengers ( 1992 ).

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

* Barrett, Ruth ( 2003 ), « Lesbian Rituals and Dianic Tradition » in Ramona Faith Oswald ( ed ), Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community.

In 2003, decided to move the Pride March from June to the December Human Rights Week to coincide with related human rights activities such as World AIDS Day ( December 1 ), Philippine National Lesbian Day ( December 8 ), and International Human Rights Day ( December 10 ).

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual community ( commonly abbreviated as the " LGBT " community ), mostly evident in North America, Southern Cone, Western Europe, Australasia and South Africa, fits the definition of a countercultural movement as " a cultural group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.

An official Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival event, the critically acclaimed independent production starred Simon Corfield ( Jamie ), Natalie Murray ( Leah ), Fiona Harris ( Sandra ), Andrew Wallace ( Ste ) and Charles Kevin ( Tony ).

), Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Charles Scribner ’ s Sons, 2003.

Other conferences, such as Regional Conferences, Women's Conference, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Students ' Conference ( changed as of 2004 ), Disabled Students ' Conference, Black Students ' Conference, Mature and Part-Time Students ' Conference and the International Students ' Conference ( created in 2004 ) are run to enhance the representation of the specific members they include.

Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition ( APASC ), Black Student Union ( BSU ), Election Board, Environmental Task Force ( ETF ), Filipino American Student Association ( FASA ), Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Allies ( GLBTA ), Housing Commission, International Students ' Council ( ISC ), Ku Ah Mah, KZUU Radio, Middle Eastern Students Association ( MESA ), Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian ( MEChA ), Student Legal Services ( SLS ), Veteran ’ s Affairs and Washington Student Lobby ( WSL ).

Meaker wrote: Spring Fire, 1952 Gold Medal Books ; We Walk Alone, 1955 Gold Medal Books ; We Too Must Love, 1958 Gold Medal Books ; Carol in a Thousand Cities, 1960 Gold Medal Books ; We Two Won't Last, 1963 Gold Medal Books ; Take a Lesbian to Lunch, 1972

Before the late 19th century, the word " Lesbian " referred to any derivative or aspect of Lesbos, including a type of wine.

* Lesbian Books ()-In three books, which derived its name from the fact that the scene of the philosophical dialogue was laid at Mytilene in Lesbos.

In linguistics, Aeolic Greek (; also Aeolian, Lesbian or Lesbic Greek ) is the set of dialects of Ancient Greek spoken mainly in Boeotia ( a region in Central Greece ), Thessaly, in the Aegean island of Lesbos, and the Greek colonies of Asia Minor ( Aeolis ).

| Lesbian: The demonym for Lesbos.

She is also called a Lesbian and a Mytilenean, on account of her residence in Lesbos with Sappho.

In the first half of the 2nd century BCE, Eresos also drew closer to the other cities of Lesbos under the aegis of the Lesbian koinon, a quasi-federal organisation which had existed on the island in various forms since the early 6th century BCE, but became more active in times when a common danger was perceived.

* Aeolic was spoken in three subdialects: one, Lesbian, on the island of Lesbos and the west coast of Asia Minor north of Smyrna.

In 2008, a group of Lesbos islanders lost a court case against the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece.