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Some women who are attracted to women call themselves gay women. Gay women may or may not consider this to mean the exact same thing as lesbian. Gay women may or may not also consider themselves genderqueer. A notable example of this is American musician [[King Princess]], who describes herself as a [[genderqueer]] person and gay [[woman]].<ref name="Menuez">{{Cite web |title=King Princess |last=Menuez |first=Bobbi |work=theingenuemagazine.com |date= |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://theingenuemagazine.com/king-princess/}}</ref>
Some women who are attracted to women call themselves gay women. Gay women may or may not consider this to mean the exact same thing as lesbian. Gay women may or may not also consider themselves genderqueer. A notable example of this is American musician [[King Princess]], who describes herself as a [[genderqueer]] person and gay [[woman]].<ref name="Menuez">{{Cite web |title=King Princess |last=Menuez |first=Bobbi |work=theingenuemagazine.com |date= |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://theingenuemagazine.com/king-princess/}}</ref>


===Gynephilia===
===Gynephilic/Gynesexual===
Gynephilia, also referred to as gynesexuality, gynosexuality<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite book|title=Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions |chapter=Your Fence Is Sitting on Me: The Hazards of Binary Thinking |author=Kaplan, Rebecca |year=1995 |quote=Even if I agreed that it is useful to have words to name the sex(es) to whom someone is erotically attracted, I would not have to use the categories homosexual and heterosexual. I could just as easily divide the world up into gynosexual (attracted to women), androsexual (attracted to men), and bisexual (attracted to both).}}</ref>, or femsexuality, is a romantic or sexual orientation in which a person feels attraction to women or to traits they perceive as feminine.<ref name="NeutroisTerms">"LGBTQ Terms." ''Neutrois.com.'' [http://neutrois.com/definitions/terms]</ref>
Gynephilia, also referred to as gynesexuality, gynosexuality<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite book|title=Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions |chapter=Your Fence Is Sitting on Me: The Hazards of Binary Thinking |author=Kaplan, Rebecca |year=1995 |quote=Even if I agreed that it is useful to have words to name the sex(es) to whom someone is erotically attracted, I would not have to use the categories homosexual and heterosexual. I could just as easily divide the world up into gynosexual (attracted to women), androsexual (attracted to men), and bisexual (attracted to both).}}</ref>, or femsexuality, is a romantic or sexual orientation in which a person feels attraction to women or to traits they perceive as feminine.<ref name="NeutroisTerms">"LGBTQ Terms." ''Neutrois.com.'' [http://neutrois.com/definitions/terms]</ref>


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