https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/08/14/was-sappho-really-a-lesbian/
One of the questions that I have frequently encountered online in discussions about ancient Greece is the question of whether the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho (lived c. 630 - c. 570 BCE) was really a lesbian. On the surface level, the answer to this question seems like an obvious "yes.".

https://www.worldhistory.org/Sappho_of_Lesbos/
Sappho of Lesbos (l. c. 620-570 BCE) was a lyric poet whose work was so popular in ancient Greece that she was honored in statuary, coinage, and pottery centuries after her death.Little remains of her work, and these fragments suggest she was gay. Her name inspired the terms 'sapphic' and 'lesbian', both referencing female same-sex relationships.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted
The Victorian critic John Addington Symonds saw the unstable political milieu of Sappho's homeland as entwined with the heady erotic climate of her poems. Lesbos, he wrote in an 1872 essay on

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sapphic-sexuality-lesbian-myth-and-reality-in-art-and-sculpture
The modern identification of Sappho with female homosexuality is, in fact, so strong that the words 'sapphic' and 'lesbian' are derived from her own name and the name of her home island of Lesbos respectively. For example, in 1908, the famous lesbian poet, Radclyffe Hall, published her poem Ode to Sappho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 - c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music.

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&context=younghistorians
Sappho's distinctly queer poetry is important to explore in an attempt to better understand the past of more people. S ap p h o's T r i al s , T i me s , an d T r an s l ati on . Sappho was a Greek woman in ancient times. She was born after 630 BCE and died around 570 BCE. Sappho resided in the capital city of Lesbos, Mytilene, a city known

https://exploreintrosems.stanford.edu/news/classics-16n-sappho-erotic-poetess-lesbos
Course Description. Sappho, the archaic poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, has probably been the most influential female poet in Western civilization, although her life remains an intriguing enigma. In this class, we will read all of Sappho's surviving fragments in English and discuss all aspects of her poetry as well as the traditions

https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-sappho-a-poet-in-fragments-90823
However, if a lesbian is defined more narrowly as a woman who has sex with another woman, then evidence to define Sappho as one is harder to establish. Of course, these two binaries are inherently

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-gay-and-lesbian-literature/sappho-tradition/7AB9A5A26BF53C42527F78D795E7304B
Apart from the appeal of Sappho's poems to classicists and poets challenging themselves via translation and the use of Aeolian meter, Sappho's representation as an originary poetic figure has captured the imagination of many generations. Type. Chapter. Information. The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature , pp. 15 - 33.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-sappho/sappho-and-sexuality/E4975207BA4C46FED50D03E7BB3016A1
Chapter 3 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho considers Sappho's position in, and contribution to, ancient discourses on sexuality, as well as how modern theorists of sexuality have categorised Sappho. Keywords. Sappho lyric ancient Greece sexuality lesbianism homosexuality Michel Foucault Anne Carson Anacreon Alcman.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sappho-Greek-poet
Sappho (born c. 610, Lesbos [Greece]—died c. 570 bce) was a Greek lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. She ranks with Archilochus and Alcaeus, among Greek poets, for her ability to impress readers with a lively sense of her personality.Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular speech and Aeolic poetic tradition, with traces of epic

https://poets.org/poet/sappho
Sappho - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. ... This characterization held fast, so much so that the very term "lesbian" is derived from the name of her home island. Her reputation for licentiousness would cause

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2021.1954332
The growing recognisability of Sappho-as-lesbian meant that it became increasingly difficult to publish 'Sapphic' literature in America and many writers sought artistic refuge abroad. ... The 1970s saw more and more women asking this very question, and, if not the construction of eunuch-filled chateaux, certainly the development of a

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/classical-literature-biographies/sappho
Sappho was one of the most important lyric poets of the Archaic Period (sixth century b.c.e.). Little is known about her life, and only a small portion of her large output of work survives. She was born at Mytilene (or Eresus) on the island of Lesbos around 625 b.c.e.

https://academic.oup.com/crj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/crj/clad022/7453577
Abstract. In Les Chansons de Bilitis ('The Songs of Bilitis', 1894), Pierre Louÿs purports to have translated into French for the first time the long-lost Greek poems of Bilitis, a contemporary of Sappho. Classicists have often heralded Bilitis as a watershed moment for reclaiming the lesbian Sappho from the clutches of homophobic, misogynist philologists.

https://www.greeka.com/eastern-aegean/lesvos/history/sappho-lesbian/
Sappho the Lesbian Poet. The ancient Greek poet Sappho born in Lesvos: Born in Eressos on the island of Lesvos, Sappho was a famous poet, whose work is popular even today because of its unique style. Believed to have been born in a noble family and later married to a wealthy man, Sappho was also said to have a daughter named Cleis.

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/25/archives/sappho-was-a-righton-woman-a-liberated-view-of-lesbianism-by-sidney.html
Book Sappho Was a Right-On Woman. A Liberated View of Lesbianism, by S Abbott and B Love, revd by M Lamb ... as it is constructive to the reassertion of community between lesbians and feminists

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/abs/lesbia-the-poet-and-the-two-faces-of-sappho-womanufacture-in-catullus/EE04EA5C8FE27F240A2A61AABF3E2362
Women such as Cynthia, Delia, and Corinna are, to use Alison Sharrock's very apt definition, the product of 'womanufacture', and their names therefore cannot be read as pseudonyms for real-life women. Type Research Article. ... Lesbia, the poet, and the two faces of Sappho: 'womanufacture' in Catullus. Volume 46;

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lesbian-herstory-archives-documenting-sapphic-history-1974-rcna147883
A 1989 article from the lesbian newspaper Sappho's Isle can be found at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. ... "I think really the most important things are the diaries and letters of everyday women

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sappho
An Anacreontic fragment that was written in the generation after Sappho sneers at Lesbians. Sappho was lampooned by the writers of New Comedy. Ovid related the story of Phaon, who, according to some traditions, rejected Sappho's love and caused her to leap from a rock to her death. ... Only when one really takes seriously the testimony on the

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/12/08/what-we-know-of-sappho/
Not long after that, at the end of the sixteenth century, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, comments in his pornographic novel The Lives of the Gallant Ladies: "'Tis said how that Sappho the Lesbian was a very high mistress in this art, and that in after times the Lesbian dames have copied her therein, and continued the practice

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/weddings/11-must-read-sapphic-lesbian-novels/ar-AA1cMUGd
Lesbian pining at its most delightful; Sappho herself would be proud. A Woman by Vanessa Roveto Eccentric and electric, Roveto's second book lies somewhere between prose poetry and experimental

https://chicagoreader.com/city-life/sapphic-lesbian-pride/
Sapphic certainly isn't a new identifier. It originates with Sappho, a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos, whose horny and lovesick poetry about other women has been memorialized across

https://www.vogue.com/article/sapph-o-rama-film-forum-new-york
Sapph-O-Rama, which runs at Film Forum from February 2 to 13, is spotlighting lesbian classics, including Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1996), Chantal Akerman's Je Tu Il Elle (1974

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lesbian-bars-softball-fields-new-book-documents-evolution-queer-womens-rcna153821
The softball diamond is one of six essential queer women's spaces Thomas writes about in "A Place of Our Own," her new cultural history that comes out Tuesday. She also explores lesbian bars

https://people.com/renee-rapp-was-nervous-to-publicly-come-out-as-lesbian-8660124
Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic. Reneé Rapp is getting real about her sexuality. In an interview with Them published Thursday, June 6, the pop star/actress, 24, opened up about coming out as a lesbian

https://pagesix.com/2024/06/10/entertainment/bill-maher-wnba-dislikes-caitlin-clark-because-shes-straight-white/
Despite Welch's suggestion, Maher blamed Clark's treatment on jealousy, racism and her sexual orientation. "Women are catty. The league is very lesbian and she's not, and there's race

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/science/anglerfish-evolution-sex.html
Mr. Brownstein said the males have enlarged nasal organs that are thought to let them follow faint trails of female pheromones through the darkness in order to find their partner. "You sniff out

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/gender-identity-sexual-orientation-and-the-2024-election/
Voters are divided over the societal effects of more people being comfortable with identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual and same-sex marriages being legal in the U.S. Roughly a third say each trend has been very or somewhat good for society, while about as many say the changes have been bad for society. The remainder say they have been

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/same-sex-japan-dating-reality-tv-boyfriend-netflix-1236024478/
Netflix. Netflix will next month upload its first Japanese same-sex dating reality TV series, " The Boyfriend .". The show takes nine men to a beach house in order to find love. For a month