landyke

plural landykes

1. A participant in a lesbian womyn's land movement, in which lesbian separatists establish counter-cultural, women- or lesbian-centred communities.

   [see title]

   2015, Kate Ellison, Merril Mushroom, Rose Norman, editors, Landykes of the South: Women's Land Groups and Lesbian Communities in the South (Sinister Wisdom 98)

   2 more examples

   […] and sustain landyke culture and Word Weavers Lesbian Publishing.

   2003, George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman, Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, page xxix

   It is a part of what we women do. Just as we gather to celebrate a landyke's 80th birthday, we take turns keeping watch over Bev's dying.

   2006, Sinister Wisdom, issues 67-72, page 135