Lesbian facts for kids

A lesbian is a homosexual woman. This means a woman who is sexually attracted to other women, and not to men.

Lesbians as parents

Many lesbian couples want to have children of their own. In order to raise children, they sometimes adopt. Some lesbian couples also have their own biological children.

Images for kids

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  The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. The two women had a relationship that was hailed as devoted and virtuous, after eloping and living 51 years together in Wales.

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  Radclyffe Hall's image appeared in many newspapers discussing the content of The Well of Loneliness.

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  Harlem resident Gladys Bentley was renowned for her blues songs about her affairs with women.

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  Women's experiences in the work force and the military during World War II gave them economic and social options that helped to shape lesbian subculture.

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  The 1957 first edition of The Ladder, mailed to hundreds of women in the San Francisco area, urged women to take off their masks.

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  Ellen DeGeneres with her Emmy Award in 1997. Her coming out in the media, as well as her sitcom, "ranks, hands down, as the single most public exit in gay history", changing media portrayals of lesbians in Western culture.