Self-declared or discovered servicemen are referred to the Psychological Medicine Branch of the Headquarters of Medical Services for a thorough psychiatric assessment, which involves their parents being called in for an interview.

The film is notable for its lesbian subplot in the attraction of Countess Augusta Geschwitz ( in some prints Anna ) to Lulu.

She played a lesbian virgin in Spike Lee's She Hate Me and acted as Anna Ran in Lady in the Water, a 2006 thriller / fantasy film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

She had a character crisis when she thought she might be lesbian, having a " crushette " on Anna.

There is a broad concern in the mental health community that the advancement of conversion therapy itself causes social harm by disseminating inaccurate views about sexual orientation and the ability of gay, lesbian and bisexual people to lead happy, healthy lives.

The television show The L Word, which debuted in 2004, focuses on the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual women, and the theme of coming out is prominently featured in the storylines of multiple characters.

Jill has also since come out of the closet as a lesbian and lives with her female partner Connie ( Karen Ludwig ).

Barbie now lives in an apartment block inhabited by her best friend Wanda, a pre-operative trans woman ; the lesbian couple Hazel and Foxglove ; the witch Thessaly ; and a quiet man named George.

* Randee Heller — Alice — a lesbian who lives with Jodie in Season two, but leaves after finding out Mrs. David's reluctance to leave Jodie's child with a lesbian as well as a gay man.

Openly lesbian, she lives with her partner, Heather Roan Poe ( born April 11, 1961 ), in Great Falls, Virginia.

* Coming out: Many gay, lesbian and bisexual people go through a " coming out " experience at some point in their lives.

In a statement issued jointly with other major American medical organizations, the American Psychological Association states that " different people realize at different points in their lives that they are heterosexual, gay, lesbian, or bisexual ".

The GLAAD Media Awards were established in 1989 to " recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

The L Word was an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood.

She is a lesbian, and lives with her partner in Tel Aviv.

Nazimova included Acker in what was dubbed the " Sewing circles ", a group of actors who were forced to conceal the fact that they were lesbian, bisexual, and romantically and sexually attracted to women, thus living secret lives.

Lillian Hellman's play was inspired by the true story of two Scottish school teachers whose lives were destroyed when they falsely were accused of engaging in a lesbian relationship by one of their students.

* Lynn, a lesbian who lives with Muriel and Audre for a while and is their mutual lover during this time.

* Big Jill-a lesbian in her twenties who lives in the basement flat of the narrator's building.

The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community and the issues that affect their lives.

The first GLAAD Media Awards were presented by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in 1990 to honor the 1989 season, and were envisioned as a way to recognize various branches of the media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

In the cold war atmosphere of the 1950s, when witch hunts later called the Lavender Scare were ruining the lives of many gay men and lesbian women in the United States, the parallel political atmosphere in Britain was virulently anti-homosexual.

Separatist feminism provided lesbians opportunities to " live their lives apart from ... mainstream society ," and, in the 1970s, " significant numbers of lesbian feminists moved to rural communities.

Frankie and Johnny received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film, along with Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ), for its " fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community and the issues that affect their lives.

Nixon is heterosexual but marched to express her support for gay and lesbian causes, stating " What I'm doing is supporting decent and reasonable people who want to get on with their lives, and they have been treated appallingly previously by the Police, and I'm prepared to do something about it.

The film chronicles the lives of several gay men and one lesbian who were persecuted by the Nazis.

Var Gorp is openly lesbian and lives with her spouse in Vermont.

In that same documentary she also admitted that she left her son and made other arrangements for his care so that she could move into a lesbian / feminist commune.

Though Le Fanu portrays his vampire's sexuality with the circumspection that one would expect for his time, it is evident that lesbian attraction is the main dynamic between Carmilla and the narrator of the story:

The film has reached cult status for its mix of horror, vampirism and seduction with lesbian overtones.

Advocates of ending DADT repeatedly publicized discharges of highly trained gay and lesbian personnel, especially those in positions with critical shortages, including fifty-nine Arabic speakers and nine Persian speakers.

She was referred to by one caller as an " ex-con lesbian drug addict with mental problems ".

Elin's older sister, Jessica, who comes with her, dares her to kiss Agnes, who is rumoured to be a lesbian.

Carangi's sexual orientation has been disputed during and after her life ; LGBT outlets label her lesbian, and other times as bisexual due to her occasional sexual relationships with men.

In September 1969, Rodwell and local lesbian allies led by Ellen Broidy, attended an Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations ( ERCHO ) meeting in Philadelphia and got it to vote to replace the Fourth of July Annual Reminder at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which ERCHO had been sponsoring since 1965, with a first commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

As with Gay Liberation, this understanding of the lesbian potential in all women was at odds with the minority-rights framework of the Gay Rights movement.

Some younger activists, seeing " gay and lesbian " as increasingly normative and politically conservative, began using queer as a defiant statement of all sexual minorities and gender variant people — just as the earlier liberationists had done with gay.

In these studies heterosexuality in females is linked to a lower amount of masculinization than is found in lesbian females, though when dealing with male heterosexuality there are results supporting both higher and lower degrees of masculinization than homosexual males.

At the forum, Falwell told homosexuals in attendance " I don't agree with your lifestyle, I will never agree with your lifestyle, but I love you " and added " anything that leaves the impression that we hate the sinner, we want to change that " He later commented to New York Times columnist Frank Rich that “ admittedly, evangelicals have not exhibited an ability to build a bond of friendship to the gay and lesbian community.

For some women, the realization that they participated in behavior or relationships that could be categorized as lesbian caused them to deny or conceal it, such as professor Jeannette Augustus Marks at Mount Holyoke College, who lived with the college president, Mary Woolley, for 36 years.

Butch and femme modes of socialization were so integral within lesbian bars that women who refused to choose between the two would be ignored, or at least unable to date anyone, and butch women becoming romantically involved with other butch women or femmes with other femmes was unacceptable.

Gold Medal Books was overwhelmed with mail from women writing about the subject matter, and followed with more books, creating the genre of lesbian pulp fiction.

However, with the advent of second wave feminism, lesbian as a political identity grew to describe a social philosophy among women, often overshadowing sexual desire as a defining trait.

As lesbian-feminists asserted, a sexual component was unnecessary in declaring oneself a lesbian if the primary and closest relationships were with women.

Female homosexual behavior may be present in every culture, although the concept of a lesbian as a woman who pairs exclusively with other women is not.

Six mostly secret organizations concentrating on gay or lesbian issues were founded around this time, but persecution and harassment were continuous and grew worse with the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla in 1976, when all groups were dissolved in the Dirty War.

The lesbian movement has been closely associated with the feminist movement in Chile, although the relationship has been sometimes strained.

Some women who identified as lesbian following colonization have been submitted to the curative effort of rape in the mindset that sex with men can fix lesbianism.

She found it " striking " that many women who had no lesbian experiences indicated they were interested in sex with women, particularly because the question was not asked.