{"id":1876,"date":"2010-08-25T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/08\/how_to_spot_a_fake_lesbian\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T23:29:24","slug":"how_to_spot_a_fake_lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/08\/how_to_spot_a_fake_lesbian.html","title":{"rendered":"How to spot a lesbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairejohnsonart.com\/\">Claire Johnson<\/a> recently wondered aloud:&nbsp;  &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal with all of the fake lesbians in erotic art?&#8221; Except in the Bible Belt and Afghanistan, gay has a cache no longer available to the straight, not that it&#8217;s easy to tell the two apart. Those addicted to visual cues are frequently wrong. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Molly Norris, <i>Self-Portrait, 1982<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mollynorris1982.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/mollynorris1982.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"414\" width=\"477\" \/>A character in Sarah Schulman&#8217;s 1988 mystery novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/After-Delores-2A-Novel-Plume\/dp\/052524641X\"><i>After Delores<\/i><\/a>, felt confident she had cracked the code.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where are we going?<br \/>Charlotte&#8217;s place. I have the key.<br \/>How did you know it was okay to come out to me so quickly? I asked.<br \/>Easy. Charlotte taught me the trick. She says that if you&#8217;re talking to a woman and she looks you in the eye and really sees you and listens to what you have to say, then you know she&#8217;s gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a straight woman, I hope it isn&#8217;t true, but I fear it&#8217;s a more reliable guide than slicked-back short hair and a man&#8217;s shirt. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Johnson recently wondered aloud:&nbsp; &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal with all of the fake lesbians in erotic art?&#8221; Except in the Bible Belt and Afghanistan, gay has a cache no longer available to the straight, not that it&#8217;s easy to tell the two apart. Those addicted to visual cues are frequently wrong. Molly Norris, Self-Portrait, 1982 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}