Straight Sistahs. Are they really?

I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this or not. Maybe it's just me over analyzing things. But I've noticed that among black women when the issue of gay men comes up there's  this visceral reaction of disgust that's openly expressed that would give the impression that among straight black women, same sex sexuality is looked down upon very negatively. Yet, from my experience when the issue of women being with women comes up there's this silence. There have been times when a woman may express a bit of understanding saying things like " Well, it's hard to find a good brotha." Or something along those lines. But usually such comments are made in the privacy of close girlfriends, not in the presence of men. Every now and then a woman will express her disgust and condemnation, usually it's a woman who's very bible oriented. But most of the time there's this silence. Matter of fact I was on a discussion board for my old high school and a guy started a discussion on how more women are hooking up with other women and he wanted to know how the ladies on the board felt about that. Only 14 women replied and guess what, none of them answered his question. One woman started off by stating that he, the guy who posted the question, had too much time on his hands in order to come up with this topic and the rest followed suit by harping on that. No one said "yeah" or "nay", no "God hates gays!", no nothing. Just silence.

So I got to thinking, from my personal experiences, is it possible that there are more black women who are open to the possibility of being with another woman but are just being hush hush about it? Personally, I've had a female friend, who by all means, is straight, admit to me that the thought of sleeping with me had crossed her mind. This was after I had told her I was bi. And in the past on occasion I've had other female friends privately flirt with me and subtly make it known to me that they liked me yet I was a bit clueless back then and wasn't quite ready to deal with such things.  But it makes me wonder. Are a lot of sistahs puttin' up a front? I mean, on the one hand their singing in chorus with the collective negative view  that the black community has towards same sex sexuality but on the other hand they might consider going down that road with a close female friend if things just happen to go that way?

Are sistah's really as straight as they try to make themselves out to be or is there a possibility that there's more flexibility there that they won't admit to except in secret?