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Many activists in the 21st century have attempted to create more visibility for lesbian history and the activists that brought it to light. Catharina Margaretha Linck was a Prussian woman who for most of her adult life presented herself as a man. Political lesbianism originated in the late 1960s among second wave radical feminists as a way to fight sexism and compulsory heterosexuality (see Adrienne Rich's essay " Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence"). The exclusion of the LGBTQ+ community and its history is one of the biggest contributors to homophobia and the exclusion of those a part of the LGBTQ community in schools.
The historical and cultural spectra of homosexuality and their relationship to the fear of being a lesbian".The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts: Reprinted from the Edition of 1660, With the Supplements to 1672: Containing Also, the Body of Liberties of.
There are at least two other women poets who wrote in the style of Sappho: Erinna of Teos or Telos ( c. Lady Frances Brudenell, Countess of Newburgh, was an Irish aristocrat known as the subject of a satire in which she was portrayed as the leader of a society of lesbians.
This is the only known example of the prosecution of female homosexual activities in United States history. In addition, Ahmad al-Tifashi wrote a collection of stories, known as A Promenade of the Hearts, which included some poems on homosexual and lesbian themes. In Plutarch's biography of Lycurgus of Sparta, part of his Parallel Lives, the author claims that older Spartan women formed relationships with girls that were similar to the erastes/ eromenos relationships that existed between some older and younger male Greeks.