Lesbian history

thumb|right|Kalpis painting of Sappho by the [[Sappho Painter ( 510BC)|alt=Vase painting of a woman holding a lyre.]]

fear, hatred or discrimination against lesbians

Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the male point of view. The term is a neologism and a deliberate play on words; the word "history"—via Latin historia from the Ancient Greek word ἱστορία, a noun meaning 'knowledge obtained by inquiry'—is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun

the only surviving poem by Sappho which is known to be complete

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aspect of history

lesbian movement that sought to challenge the status quo of heterosexuality and mainstream feminism, founded in the U.S. in the 1950s

bar for women who identify as lesbian

Aspect of the history of Nazi Germany

sociopolitical theory

Danish organization for lesbians

term from second-wave feminism referring to women identified as female at birth

genre of fiction

Anactoria (or Anaktoria; ) is a woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, names Anactoria as the object of her desire in a poem numbered as fragment 16. Another of her poems, fragment 31, is traditionally called the "Ode to Anactoria", although no name appears in it. As portrayed by Sappho, Anactoria is likely to have been an aristocratic follower of hers, of marriageable age. It is possible that fragment 16 was written in connection with her wedding to an unknown man. The name "Anactoria" has also be

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