# lesbian (sexual)

woman and love that is gay

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: gender_identity  ·  Arena: definition

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [women](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-women.social), [love](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-love.emotional), [gay](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gay.sexual)

**Through:** If woman experience love that is gay, it create lesbian

**Novel properties:**
- female gay love

## Examples
- Audre Lorde published 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,' a biomythography centering her identity as a Black lesbian woman. *(literature)*
- The 1973 Daughters of Bilitis convention in San Francisco gathered over 200 self-identified lesbians to discuss rights and visibility. *(institutions)*
- In 1987, the lesbian activist group ACT UP organized protests at FDA headquarters to demand faster drug approval for AIDS patients. *(activism)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lesbian.sexual.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*