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Speaking of which, does a Sappho and her friend community exist somewhere federated?
If not you know what you need to do.
Wow, NO results for 'Sappho' in communities? Damn. That's unexpected.
What or who is sappho?
In addition to the other comment - "Sappho and her friend" refers to the unfortunate practice by historians of portraying queer relationships in a callously heteronormative way, like referring to Sappho's female lover as "her friend".
Sappho was a poet from the island of Lesbo, which is where the word lesbian comes from.
The mythological legend regarding Lesbos was that all of the women Lesbians started having sex with each other one time when all of the men Lesbians went off to war.
Edit: Sappho was a real poet really from Leabos, and is one of the founders of lyric poetry in Western literature. Lyric poetry here means mostly any kind of poem that's a lot shorter than the multi-chapter epics.
Lesbos not Lesbo
Since both of these are assuming you know the island of lesbo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho
Lesbos not Lesbo
!herfriend@sappho.social
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What is this Sappho thing?
a greek poet. "sappho and her friend" makes fun of straight people pretending that an obviously homosexual relationship is just a friendship