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lesbians adopt a dyke separatist, total Lesbian Movement/identity/perspective. Sometimes I sit in large gay community meetings and watch gay men subtly putting down their femme-male lovers. Sometimes I sit in large feminist meetings and listen to what my "sisters" say, "No, Jane can't be the one gives the TV speech, her hair is too short, and she wears men's boots-what will people think?" I know damn well what a lesbian thinks in either situation. I also know that a lesbian in the women's movement isn't doing much to help her sisters prevent rape. Emotionally I so totally identify with women that it's hard to feel a part of Christopher Street West parades. It's hard to recognise any "brotherhood" with John who got busted on "lewd and lascivious" when last week he said to me, "What do you see in women?”

I am beginning to see, yes indeed, being a lesbian is so totally different from being a gay man. We have little in common but the society that mislabelled us and right now we are rejecting that society and all its labels.

I am tired of telling my gay "brothers". "No! You can't do that. to women." I am tired of telling my het and lesbian feminist sisters, "I'm angry and gay." Sometimes I think my sisters who have found loving another woman through the rosy glow of a woman identified supportive Women's Movement, forgot-or never learned–loving another woman is also being queer. No, being a lesbian is not the same as being a homosexual but how do you light against a society which says it is?

This year I don't see any real place in the male identified gay movement for a feminist identified lesbian. This year I still question, "What is a lesbian-gay-queer woman's responsibility to the thousands of her sisters who still suffer under anti-gay as well as anti-woman prejudices?" Next year maybe someone will write about how to fight a society which would lock me up on two counts. Both, it seems to me, carry life sentences.

Jeanne Cordova is an activist and author of Sexism: It's a Nasty Affair (New Way Books, Los Angeles). This piece is reprinted from The Lesbian Tide (Los Angeles) via GAY NEWS

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