How to Use lesbianism in a Sentence

lesbianism

noun
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  • By the end of Season 1, for instance, Leighton has begun to embrace her lesbianism.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • The law is similar in some ways to a law passed in 2013 that stiffened some penalties and criminalized lesbianism.
    — Reuters, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • How did the church, how did society—in this case, a religious society—look at lesbianism?
    — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Her lesbianism was a source of conflict and comfort and helped shape her feminist politics.
    — Salamishah Tillet, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • With so few men around, excluding the director’s chair, lesbianism is apparently par for the course.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • There was not even a hint of lesbianism for Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman movie in 2017 despite some of her most prominent writers pointing out the obvious.
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 18 May 2018
  • The message is that black lesbianism is something in need of defense, something uniquely imperiled and also uniquely precious.
    — Moira Donegan, New Republic, 5 July 2017
  • At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful, lifetime love stories the film chose to ignore.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 31 May 2018
  • Millett, who was then married to a man, but also slept with women, was quoted (or misquoted) in a magazine distancing herself from lesbianism.
    — Joy Press, The Cut, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Critics have questioned Maisel’s mothering, debated whether the show celebrates white feminism, hides lesbianism and skips over racial discord.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Issues motivating protest range from climate change to disarmament, from labor rights to lesbianism.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2017
  • There was no legal definition of lesbianism in any case because under English law no such condition existed.
    — Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • Still, Murray’s disinclination to identify as a lesbian rested partly on a misprision of what lesbianism means.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Ma Rainey is our earliest example of a Black woman explicitly embracing lesbianism in her music.
    — Gerrick Kennedy, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • But while almost all effeminate guys are gay—so stigmatized is femininity in males (even in the gay community)—masculine swagger in women is less stigmatized and therefore somewhat less likely to correlate as strongly with lesbianism.
    — Dan Savage, Chicago Reader, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The argument destigmatizes lesbianism while also minimizing its erotic and social power, its centrality to both pleasure and politics.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021

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