Citations:lesbiandom

Noun: "the state or quality of being a lesbian"

 * 2003, Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire (ed. Karen X. Tulchinsky), page 60:
 * So I moved on to college and many, many more firsts, another Becky (that's right, but with a “Y” this time ), and incredibly true adventures of lesbiandom. But I'll never forget that first kiss.
 * 2007, Glamour, Volume 105, page 130:
 * Skeptics might say her declared lesbiandom made her more desirable to me.
 * 2015, Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life, page 465:
 * After that, JB’s mood seemed to improve. Even his final salvos were somewhat listless, as if he were delivering them out of obligation rather than true depth of feeling. “In ten years, I'll bet you two will have made the full transition to lesbiandom. I predict cats,” was one, and “Watching you two in the kitchen is like watching a slightly more racially ambiguous version of that John Currin painting. Do you know what I’m talking about? Look it up,” was another.
 * After that, JB’s mood seemed to improve. Even his final salvos were somewhat listless, as if he were delivering them out of obligation rather than true depth of feeling. “In ten years, I'll bet you two will have made the full transition to lesbiandom. I predict cats,” was one, and “Watching you two in the kitchen is like watching a slightly more racially ambiguous version of that John Currin painting. Do you know what I’m talking about? Look it up,” was another.

Noun: "lesbians collectively"

 * 1987, Lesbian Contradiction, Issues 17-20, page 8:
 * What hope outside this stone house is offered 2 [sic] womyn who are in deep emotional pain? i'd love to see this an issue that's tackled & dealt with as many of us suffer the ill effects of any mental health. i'd like to suggest the setting up of safe spaces for lesbians who are in emotional distress, not medicate or lock them out of lesbiandom or in hospitals.
 * 1996, Lindsy Van Gelder & Pamela Robin Brandt, The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America, page 184:
 * We noted that even here, among women whose sex lives are theoretically the most structured in lesbiandom, there's a fair amount of fluidity.
 * 1999, Donna Allegra, "Foreward: Rhomboid Pegs for Oblong Hearts", in The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex (eds. Marcia Munson & Judith P. Stelbourn), pave xvi:
 * Many in lesbiandom are at that difficult and strange frontier of acknowledging that the marriage model isn’t an accurate map for the heart’s terrain.
 * 1999, Girlfriends: The Magazine of Lesbian Enjoyment, Volume 6, page 18:
 * Perhaps the queerest thing about 1999's independent releases is the fact that two of lesbiandom ' s biggest directors, Ana Kokkinos and Rose Troche, made respectable splashes — but not on our end of the pool.
 * 2004, Fay Jacobs, As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir, page 227:
 * From where I sit now, literally, basking in the sun and surrounded by a huge slice of lesbiandom, a good sprinkling of their offspring and plenty of their canine friends;
 * 2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvenist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, pages 201-202:
 * Finally, I saw Lamar Van Dyke. Lamar is a legend in lesbiandom whom I'd been wanting to meet for a long time so she could tell me about her adventures as the head of the Van Dykes, a 1970s lesbian separatist group who smashed monogamy, lived in vans, didn't eat animals, and didn't speak to men unless they were waiters or mechanics.
 * 2008, Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, page 158 (comic strip):
 * Meanwhile, over at the oldest extant group household in lesbiandom...
 * 2017, Hildred Billings, Blown by an Inconvenient Wind, unnumbered page:
 * Apparently, word had spread through the whose-who of lesbiandom and certain people were not replying to my texts at all.