Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag

Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag

The Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag measures a huge 90cm high by 150cm wide and is perfect for wearing as a cape!

We also have The Pink Flag as well as the Lesbian Sunset Pride Flag.

There are 2 side grommets (that’s the term apparently!) to attach with rope to a flag pole.

Made from water-resistant polyester.

History of the term Lipstick Lesbian

Lipstick lesbian is slang for a lesbian who exhibits a greater amount of feminine gender attributes, such as wearing make-up (thus, lipstick), dresses or skirts, and having other characteristics associated with feminine women. In popular usage, the term lipstick lesbian is also used to characterize the feminine gender expression of bisexual women, or to the broader topic of female-female sexual activity among feminine women.

The term lipstick lesbian was used in San Francisco at least as far back as the 1980s. In 1982, Priscilla Rhoades, a journalist with the gay newspaper Sentinel, wrote the feature story “Lesbians for Lipstick”. In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D.C.–based social group of “feminine lesbians” that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

The term is thought to have emerged in wide usage during the early 1990s. A 1997 episode of the television show Ellen widely publicized the phrase. In the show, Ellen DeGeneres’s character, asked by her parents whether a certain woman is a “dipstick lesbian”, explains that the term is lipstick lesbian, and comments that “I would be a chapstick lesbian.” An alternate term for lipstick lesbian is doily dyke.

Some authors have commented that the term lipstick lesbian is commonly used broadly to refer to feminine bisexual women or to heterosexual women who temporarily show romantic or sexual interest in other women to impress men; for example, Jodie Brian, Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Volume 1 (2009), states, “A common depiction of lipstick lesbianism includes conventionally attractive and sexually insatiable women who desire one another but only insofar as their desire is a performance for male onlookers or a precursor to sex with men.”

In Intersectionality, Sexuality and Psychological Therapies, the term lipstick lesbian is defined as “a lesbian/bisexual woman who exhibits ‘feminine’ attributes such as wearing makeup, dresses and high heeled shoes”; the book adds that “more recent iterations of feminine forms of lesbianism such as ‘femme’ (e.g. wears dresses/skirts or form-fitting jeans, low cut tops, makeup, jewelry), or ‘lipstick lesbian’, are an attempt to define as both lesbian and feminine.”

Source: Wikipedia – Lipstick Lesbian

Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag Design

The official Lipstick Lesbian Flag was created by Natalie McCrary, and posted on her workpress “This Lesbian Life” in July, 2010

Source: Tumblr Blog – Lesbian Flag History