lesbian的意思|lesbian的解释-里氏词典

lesbian ['lezbiәn]

a. 女同性恋的

n. 女同性恋者

[医] 女子同性恋爱的

lesbian

[ noun ]

a female homosexual

<noun.person>

a resident of Lesbos

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman

<adj.all>

Lesbian \Les"bi*an\ (l[e^]z"b[i^]*an), a.
1. Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos,
now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

2. Amatory; erotic; -- in allusion to the reputed sensuality
of the Lesbian people and literature; as, Lesbian novels.
[archaic]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. homosexual; -- applied to female homosexuals.
[PJC]

Lesbian \Les"bi*an\ (l[e^]z"b[i^]*an), n.
a female homosexual.

Syn: dyke[vulgar, deprecatory]. [PJC]

Some conservatives took on the gay and lesbian rights movement too.
'They felt they were not being treated equally.' The benefits also make it easier for companies to market to gay and lesbian consumers, who have become expert at organising boycotts of products from companies that do not furnish insurance.
His description of the lesbian movement as "extraordinarily popular on some college campuses" is meaningless and imprecise.
His appearance with gay and lesbian leaders in Los Angeles last week was instructive.
Then the murders start, the TV personality arrives in town, the lesbian intrigues multiply, the boyfriend wants a wife, not an independent woman friend.
"The discrimination has remained high and pervasive," says Evan Wolfson, an attorney with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay and lesbian civil rights organization that often handles HIV-discrimination cases.
A survey of lesbian health problems found that homosexual women experience much more stress than heterosexuals but share similar concerns about physical and mental health, its authors said Friday.
"We do not encourage our gay and lesbian colleagues to come out of the closet because we cannot protect them," Karff said.
A Lutheran church in San Francisco has called a Minneapolis lesbian couple to become associate pastors in defiance of a denominational ban on the ordination of practicing homosexuals.
The lesbian couple, Cindy Bologna and Sydney Erskine, challenged the referendum.
Left-wing councils, including those running inner city London, boroughs and the northern cities of Manchester and Sheffield, are derided by conservative newspapers for grants to gay and lesbian community groups.
A woman seeking guardianship of her brain-damaged lesbian lover says she would never keep her from seeing her estranged parents.
"For me as for any other gay or lesbian person, it is a liberating experience," the legislator said.
I do take issue, however, with specific statements and inferences regarding whether the workplace is hospitable to openly lesbian and gay employees.
Because, as is obvious, such characters as Jerri (the lesbian) and Robert (the bartender) are merely plot devices.
Gay and lesbian community leaders said Saturday they have launched a letter-writing protest against ABC-TV's refusal to rerun a controversial"thirtysomething" episode featuring two men in bed.
And the Rutgers art school played host to a show by lesbian and gay artists titled "Outrageous Desires." Not all campuses are as "out" as Rutgers is, and Rutgers itself is hardly an island of perfect harmony.
"UPI terminated Brienza's employment because of her sexual orientation, and because she was writing a free-lance article for a gay and lesbian newspaper," the suit contends.
A state appeals court ruled July 10 that a newspaper can refuse an advertisement for gay and lesbian services and is not subject to a law regulating public access to businesses.
The voice vote came after 45 minutes of debate at the conference's 101st annual convention, attended by about 500 rabbis. A 17-member committee studied the issue four years before issuing a report endorsing gay and lesbian rabbis.
The court, without comment, rejected appeals by a woman denied re-enlistment in the Army Reserve in Wisconsin because she is a lesbian and a California man released from Navy active duty because he is gay.
For the most part, the business world has resisted the demands of the gay and lesbian movement to expand spousal benefit coverage.
Ms. Meade, 36, testified last week that she is not a lesbian.
"I think Stanford is probably one of the best places to be openly gay or lesbian or bisexual, and it's still scary," said Susan Mizner, a third-year law student and gay activist.
Jesse Jackson on Friday asked for the support of homosexuals during a presidential campaign appearance at an inner-city church led by a lesbian pastor.
One of the forms it takes is the lesbian movement, now so extraordinarily popular on some college campuses.
At its convention this summer, NOW approved two extensive resolutions endorsing lesbian rights but not a mention of parental-leave legislation.
It claims that American Telephone & Telegraph Co. discriminated against the partner of a deceased lesbian employee by not paying her a sickness-death benefit that is routinely given to surviving family members.
Miriam Ben-Shalom said she has lost faith in the country she wants to serve after the U.S. Supreme Court left intact a military policy that keeps her out of the Army Reserve because she is a lesbian.
Rep. Schroeder also says Navy women feel they have "to have sex or you get labeled as a lesbian.

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