ABSTRACT
Lesbians have suffered more discrimination because they are women than because they are homosexuals. Lesbians were sometimes pitied because they could not catch a real man, and it was often assumed that all a lesbian really needed was a good “screwing” by a “real” man to be cured. The greatest number of references to lesbianism occur in pornographic writings designed for male consumption, and many houses of prostitution in the past put on “lesbian” shows. Once lesbianism came out in the open, it was realized that a number of important women had been lesbian, and lesbians could be as well adjusted as heterosexuals. Lesbians have different bars and hangouts from those of male homosexuals, and traditionally, perhaps because the public has been less conscious of them, have been able to live more unobtrusively. Lesbians are not satisfied to be auxiliary members or second-class homosexuals.
