a person who is close to ones self. someone of non-relation. someone whom you can tell anythng! (unlike friend a frinad is the closest of all...

Referring to women who are sexually or romantically attracted to other women. Applies to both lesbians and bisexual women, as it is only the same-sex attraction that matters, not any other attractions the women may have.

Originates from the Greek poet Sappho, a bisexual woman from the Isle of Lesbos, from which we get the term lesbian.