Dodds, Gracia2020-07-282020-07-282020https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25414Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2020. 26 pagesThis essay focuses on the evolution of sexuality identity markers on the Southern Oregon Lesbian Lands. Research derived from the University of Oregon Special Collections and Archives serves to display the means by which different women understood and made sense of sexuality and sexual orientation. I have found that the term ‘lesbian’ is better understood as a catch-all word for all of women’s same-gender attraction; meaning that includes multi-gender attracted women. This research will give better insight into how umbrella terms, like lesbian, affect who is included (and excluded) throughout both the duration and existence of the lesbian communes, and in current times.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USSouthern Oregon Lesbian Landssexual orientationlesbian communeslesbianmulti-gender attracted womenOther