IIRC Bilitis was Sappho's lover in a French novel, and when the first American lesbian organization was forming, they named themselves the Daughters of Bilitis.
It sounds like a disease to me too but I guess some people thought Sappho was too cliched?
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Date: 2018-08-11 01:31 am (UTC)It sounds like a disease to me too but I guess some people thought Sappho was too cliched?