Tag: lavender marriage
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New Online Classifieds Facilitate Lavender Marriages for Indian Lesbians
Society pressures lesbians to marry and have sex with men in most parts of the world. Heteropatriarchy sows doubt that female homosexuality is even possible, and so does the LGBT community. Heterocoercion feels inescapable. Only a lesbian understands how devastating the prospect, let alone reality, of us having sex with a male is. Women who…
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The Lesbian Pinball: Gay Liberation vs Women’s Liberation
Lesbians are pulled between solidarity with gay men, because of homophobia, and straight women, because of misogyny. We have prioritised solidarity with gay men or straight women at different points in history, depending on the contextual concerns.