Sentence examples for lesbians from inspiring English sources

"The idea of unions seemed to me as old-fashioned as flares or the penny farthing," admits Stephen Beresford, who wrote Pride after hearing the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (LGSM).

The majority of Americans, 58%, support the right of gays and lesbians to wed in a recent opinion survey jointly conducted by ABC News and the Washington Post.

Some of the script is terrible but at least a dyke can watch it and not have to wade through a bunch of blacked-up lesbians.

After that, we stayed put and tried to sunbathe, but the place was riddled with flies and the retired British policeman next door kept asking if we were lesbians.

People "scorn and hate lesbians, and hate and beat gays", said Lena, a 14-year-old from Abakan, a city of 170,000 in Siberia.

The popularity of these movies is maybe driven by a longing for the positives that have disappeared: the Welsh miners did accept support from lesbians and gay men – and with a lot less trouble than in the Pride movie; white kids from Wigan did choose the music of black Detroit over the Osmonds and the Bee Gees.

The 541 people surveyed includes just 55 who self-identify as lesbians (the whole sample is around 60% male).

That October, he told Top Gear magazine that TV bosses were obsessed with having "black Muslim lesbians" on shows to balance white heterosexual men: "The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

"With this legislation, the government said that, yes, gays and lesbians are not valued as a social group.

For a government that purports to be "female friendly" with its policies on maternity leave, IVF for lesbians, domestic violence and rape and equal pay, Labour appears to have shot itself in the foot.

Times were tougher for lesbians and gay men then.