lovers

It hurts when I am lovers with a white, working class lesbian and she refuses to deal with race and the fact that I am a mother.

1996, Michiyo Fukaya, A Fire is Burning, it is in Me: The Life and Writings of Michiyo Fukaya

I am lovers with her sister and we have become sisters through friendship.

1999, Caeia March, Spinsters' Rock, Women's Press (UK)

I was lovers with a woman I'll call Judy. One morning when we were sharing our dreams, I told her the dream I'd had where I was making an eloquent speech in Japan about saving the whales[…]

2011 March 30, Diane Stein, All Women Are Psychics, Crossing Press, →ISBN, page 109

I was lovers with Joan — she was an artist for ONE Inc.

2012 February 17, Nan Alamilla Boyd, Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History, OUP USA, →ISBN, page 209

I was lovers with this boy in my neighborhood for... oh, I'd say at least eight years. And everybody in the neighborhood knew. And we came out that year.

2018 March 1, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press, →ISBN