Lesbian movement is a broad term that includes various positions and political prospects but it usually means the set of activities (cultural, social, etc.). And behaviors toward the recognition and protection of identity and civil rights of lesbians . It is explicit in political contexts, groups and associations through which to build a common act.

Lesbianism practiced consciously and politically influential is a fairly recent phenomenon whose emergence in Italy can be dated to about the mid-seventies. The first node that homosexual women politically engaged in the seventies are having to dissolve it is to make a distinction between homosexuality and lesbianism. Talking about homosexuality means considering only the “special features” on the strictly sexual, this was considered insufficient by the least restrictive or lesbians who are critical of the society as patriarchal, a society that denies the possibility of a sexuality other than heterosexual reproductive uniquely-designed with the pleasure / power of man.

Feminism has indeed want something more than mere mediation with the male, as this would reduce it to an area where to park as any small concessions within a social structure that would remain essentially unchanged. The relationship allows women to provide themselves with new tools, not polluted by the patriarchal power and bring forth a new contradiction: the woman-woman (or between heterosexual women and lesbians), which emerged from the change in the object of one’s actions, your thinking , of his affection. In fact, with the exception of the aforementioned Pompey the Great, the coexistence of feminist and lesbian feminist separatist within the same group is not easy.
At first there is a tendency to regard lesbianism as a personal choice, if needed, in the broader context of women’s right to self-determination, but also after passing the idea of ​​the difficulties remain, especially at the level of political practices. Lesbians do not want to respond to externally imposed deadlines: distinguish between political desires and political needs.The plans are clearly very different, because in almost all needs within the quota, the lesbians are in fact absent, at least formally, from moments of demands such as demonstrations or public events, including homosexual ones.