Citations:Sapphic

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English citations of Sapphic

noun (type of person)

• 1975, Richard Whittington-Egan, A casebook on Jack the Ripper, page 146:

  Mary Jane Kelly as anti-heroine of The Michaelmas Girls is presented as a Sapphic, complemented by a man who needs her because she understands his sexual abnormality.

• 1986, Spare Rib - Volumes 162-173:

  Portmouth lesbian 23. Unattached Seeks genuine woman for caring relationship. Box 620 YORKSHIRE GROUP. Interested Sapphics/Lesbians only.

• 1992, Suzanne Neild, Rosalind Pearson, Women like us, page 80:

  I still campaign around Hyde Park Gays and Sapphics every Sunday.

• 2009, R. Terry Schnadelbach, Hidden Lives / Secret Gardens, page 17:

  [...] to either of the families involved, Jeanne Ghyka's Paris love-life was bisexual to the external viewer and lesbian in her [private life. ...] Many socially prominent Sapphics married a bugger, maintaining the appearances of a heterosexual household.

• 2013, Sounds from the Park: An Oral History of Speakers' Corner, page 13:

  Sharley McLean thought the "social work" that happened on the edges of the Hyde Park Gays and Sapphics meeting she spoke at was important.

• 2016 December, Charlie Bauer, Charlie Says, in Gscene Magazine, page 54:

  [...] the gays, the lesbians, the blacks, the Latinos, [...] the dust bowlers, their Asian counterparts, the Sapphics', the destroyers, the lovwrs of dogs, the haters of meat, [...]

• 2019 Spring, Paper Cloud (Oregon State University Pride Center zine), pages 5 and 17 (illustration of two people, with caption):

  Rue Dickey, Summertime Sapphics, Lasting Impression […]