Lesbianism, the researchers suggested, might be the result of a female fetus's being exposed to male hormones in the womb.

ECONOMIST: Homosexuality

Openly gay Ellen DeGeneres (No. 10) has brought lesbianism to the mainstream with massive platforms on TV, Twitter and Facebook.

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Though this should be of no more than passing interest, Ms. di Florio repeatedly flirts with the question of lesbianism without providing the answer.

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This, combined with the trivial observation that not all lesbians have twin brothers, suggests that if male hormones are inducing lesbianism, they are coming from elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Homosexuality

"If it's incest, blackmail, lesbianism, homosexuality... terrific, put it in, because people can believe that people can murder for any of those reasons, " he told Radio Times.

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She flips unconcernedly back and forth from lesbianism to heterosexuality.

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In 1885, a bill amended by Henry Labouchere, a Liberal member of parliament, criminalized all male homosexual acts (lesbianism was not illegal) making Britain the least hospitable place for gay men in Europe.

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In the most egregious instance so far, Littlefinger tutored two prostitutes in how to moan in fake lesbianism for their customers, even as they moaned in fake lesbianism for us a real Uroboros of titillation.

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