What is "lipstick lesbian"

n. (context LGBT slang English) A lesbian who has glamorously feminine characteristics, as opposed to the stereotypically masculine lesbian. A lipstick lesbian, strictly speaking, is attracted to other feminine women, as opposed to the femme#English, a feminine lesbian attracted to butch lesbians.

A lipstick lesbian is slang for a lesbian woman who exhibits a greater amount of feminine gender attributes relative to other gender expressions, such as wearing make-up (thus, lipstick), wearing dresses or skirts and having other characteristics associated with feminine women. In popular usage, the term lipstick lesbian is also used to characterize the feminine gender expression of bisexual women who are romantically or sexually interested in other women, or to the broader topic of female-female sexual activity among feminine women.