Jessica Rose

The Underrepresentation of Sapphic Identities in Literature: A Historical Analysis – OutWrite (outwritenewsmag.org)

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The discrimination against both MLM individuals and sapphics carry equal weight in the queer community, and they impact all LGBTQ+ members of our society. I have MLM friends who were afraid to hold hands at school. On the other hand, I didn’t come out until I was sixteen, purely because I never understood that loving women romantically was even an option. My unawareness was largely due to the lack of positive representation; I didn’t see loving, multidimensional sapphic characters on screen. The few that I did see were there for diversity points, nothing more. There were no main characters, no Disney princesses who could exist without their happy ending in the arms of their prince. For many of us sapphics, we assumed that a happy ending with a man was the only option.

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