What attracts lesbians
Yes, Some Lesbians and Bi Women Really Do Prefer Butches
Sometimes a rude question is also a sincere one. Take, for example, an inquiry I hear quite often: Do lesbians really locate butch women attractive? As a butch woman, it is unfeasible to ignore the implication that, for certain people, women fond me are the least attractive creatures on the planet. Umbrage-taking aside, however, the question raises the issue of whose standards of beauty apply in a queer female context. And sorry, hetero guys, but they’re not yours.
In fact, butch lesbians often do quite well when it comes to attracting female attention. Better than our straight butch peers, at any rate: I have a friend who is straight, masculine-of-center, and perpetually aggrieved by how often women pursue her out and flirt with her, as compared with the men she’s actually interested in. For whatever reason, it seems that masculinity in women is something that some ladies really respond to. While there are males out there with a penchant for butchness, the anecdotal evidence of my straight butch friend, not to mention the ove
How To Meet Other Lesbians
18 ways to meet other lesbians…
Do you ever wish it was easier to meet other lesbians?
If so, you’re not alone.
Finding other queer women isn’t always easy to do.
When we’re out in the world it’s not always obvious which females are romantically attracted to other females.
Not everyone has gay friends, not everyone uses dating apps, and not every town has gay hangouts where people can congregate.
And even if they did, not everyone feels comfortable hanging out in bars or other places that are oriented around drinking and partying.
But warm lesbians are everywhere. It’s just a question of where to go to find them.
Where are the other lesbians?
Most queer women are integrated into society, spending time working and living among friends, relatives and colleagues who aren’t gay and who don’t hang out in gay places.
Finding them requires getting involved in different parts of the world.
The following are 18 places you can go and things you can do that are likely to put you in the company of other queer women (or other adj humans who will
14 queer women on what they find most attractive in a partner
We all have something unique (and sometimes weird) that makes us feel attracted to someone else. For me, it's all about the eyelashes. I'm an absolute sucker for long, curly, soft eyelashes. Here, 14 LGBTQ+ women explain what it is in a potential partner that they're most attracted to.
1. "Feet. Not in a sexual way. I like short girls, and they tend to have little feet. It's adorable." [via]
2. "Brain. Holy shit, intelligent women are my kryptonite." [via]
3. "Her personal library" because it will "tell you a lot of significant things about a girl". [via]
4. "Toss up between the brain and the voice. Although obviously going to notice the voice first. In fact I recognize a woman who certainly has the intelligence, but has the most regal, deep and sensual purrrrr that has just enough of a contemptuous undercurrent that makes me want to attend to it all day. Saying something nice, saying something disdainful, reading the yellow pages I honestly wouldn't care. I a
Are you tired of being single and feeling lonely and wondering when it's going to be your turn?
You know how it is being a single lesbian
We psych ourselves out thinking that maybe we’re aiming too high, and maybe the gal we’re dreaming of doesn’t even exist.
And we worry that we might simply miss meeting our soulmate because the world is so big, and we’re part of such a minute minority that maybe we’ll cease without finding each other.
And we waste so much moment wondering if we should contain stayed with our ex because maybe we’ll never find anything better
And when we’re single we get sick of endlessly swiping. And conversations that go nowhere and then disappear. And dates that end up being a disappointment.
And for so many of us it’s frustrating being single because even though we realize how to make things unfold for ourselves at work and in terms of real-world goals, when it comes to our love life, it feels enjoy we’re powerless, like everything is completely out of our hands.
Most of us, when we’re single, can relate to being sleepy of leaving work and not having someone