{
  "id": "lesbian.sexual",
  "term": "lesbian",
  "sense": "sexual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "gender_identity",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "woman and love that is gay",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "women.social",
      "love.emotional",
      "gay.sexual"
    ],
    "interaction": "If woman experience love that is gay, it create lesbian",
    "novel_properties": [
      "female gay love"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Audre Lorde published 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,' a biomythography centering her identity as a Black lesbian woman.",
      "domain": "literature"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1973 Daughters of Bilitis convention in San Francisco gathered over 200 self-identified lesbians to discuss rights and visibility.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1987, the lesbian activist group ACT UP organized protests at FDA headquarters to demand faster drug approval for AIDS patients.",
      "domain": "activism"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "women.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "gay.sexual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "lesbian",
    "lesbians"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lesbian.sexual"
}