Gold star lesbians are a rare breed

I didn't know what to name the thread. It's a slight better than 'Gold star lesbians live at the end of a rainbow?'

Lisa Diamond's research has been mentioned here before. 'Study: Bisexuality in Women Not just a College Experimental Phase'

I came across this spin on her findings

Explaining Diversity in the Development of Same-Sex Sexuality Among Young Women

Journal of Social Issues, Summer, 2000, by Lisa M. Diamond,
Ritch C. Savin-Williams

here's the exerpt that caught my eye:

Contrary to conventional wisdom, exclusive same-sex attractions are the exception rather than the norm among sexual-minority women. Laumann et al. (1994) found that 4.4% of American women reported experiencing same-sex attractions, and 94% of these women were also attracted to men. In fact, nearly two thirds were predominantly attracted to men. Similarly, two thirds of the lesbian women in Study A reported experiencing periodic attractions to men. The prevalence of nonexclusivity in sexual-minority women's attractions suggests that other-sex attractions and relationships remain an ever-present possibility for most sexual-minority women, a fact that creates multiple opportunities for discontinuity and inconsistency in the female sexual-minority life course. For example, nearly one fourth of lesbians in Study A listed a high school boyfriend as one of the strongest attractions they had ever experienced, yet many of these women reported that they no longer experienced other-sex attractions (Diamond, 1998). An a ltogether different subset of lesbians (again, approximately one fourth) pursued other-sex sexual contact between the first and second interviews (Diamond, 1998, 2000b).