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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; padding-bottom:0.2em;">"Am I a Lesbian?" <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%22Am+I+a+Lesbian%3F%22&rft.author=Angeli+Luz&rft.pages=30"></span></caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data">Angeli Luz</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lesbian" title="Lesbian">Lesbian</a> identity, <a href="/wiki/Compulsory_heterosexuality" title="Compulsory heterosexuality">compulsory heterosexuality</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">January 2018</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Google Doc</a>, PDF</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">30</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Am I a Lesbian?</b>" is a document written by <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> user Angeli Luz<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and first shared via <a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Google Docs</a> through her blog in 2018. Written over two days, the <a href="/wiki/Zine" title="Zine">zine</a>-like guide presents a series of questions that Luz was considering for herself at the time of writing while she attempted to understand her <a href="/wiki/Sexual_orientation" title="Sexual orientation">sexual orientation</a>. Many of the document's questions engage with the concept of <a href="/wiki/Compulsory_heterosexuality" title="Compulsory heterosexuality">compulsory heterosexuality</a>, a social force theorized by <a href="/wiki/Adrienne_Rich" title="Adrienne Rich">Adrienne Rich</a> in 1980. </p><p>Since its release, the document has been widely reshared as a <a href="/wiki/PDF" title="PDF">PDF</a> and via other social media, especially <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> since the 2020s. An article in <i><a href="/wiki/Them_(website)" title="Them (website)">Them</a></i> described the "Am I a Lesbian?" as "part of the online queer canon"; it is frequently referred to as the "<b>lesbian masterdoc</b>"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in online queer spaces.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Criticism of the document has focused on its articulation of "compulsory heterosexuality", which differs from Rich's initial conception of the term. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_and_content">Publication and content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_I_a_Lesbian%3F&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Publication and content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Am I a Lesbian?" was first published as a 30-page<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Google Docs</a> document by Angeli Luz on her <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> blog cyberlesbian in January 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luz, then a high school student, wrote the document over the course of two days in her late teens after coming to terms with her attraction to women and trying to determine whether her attraction to men "was real or a social construct [she] took in as a facet of [her] identity".<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luz remained anonymous as the guide's author until 2020 when she was interviewed about the document for an article in <i><a href="/wiki/Vice_(magazine)" title="Vice (magazine)">Vice</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-autostraddle_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autostraddle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Am I a Lesbian?" is divided into 20 sections and formatted "like a blog post, not a scientific paper; it's rife with bulleted lists, inconsistent capitalization, and conversational asides".<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stefanie Duguay, a professor of <a href="/wiki/Communication_studies" title="Communication studies">communication</a>, likened the document to a <a href="/wiki/Zine" title="Zine">zine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work offers a series of questions to help them determine whether they experience attraction to women and whether attraction they feel towards men is genuine or is guided by <a href="/wiki/Compulsory_heterosexuality" title="Compulsory heterosexuality">compulsory heterosexuality</a>, a social force first theorized by American essayist and feminist <a href="/wiki/Adrienne_Rich" title="Adrienne Rich">Adrienne Rich</a> in her 1980 article "<a href="/wiki/Compulsory_Heterosexuality_and_Lesbian_Existence" title="Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence">Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence</a>" (though Rich is not mentioned in "Am I a Lesbian?").<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Compulsory heterosexuality, also referred to as "comphet" in the document, is argued by "Am I a Lesbian?" to be the pervasive assumption that women's attraction to men is <a href="/wiki/Social_constructionism" title="Social constructionism">socially constructed</a> and enforced through societal pressures and norms.<sup id="cite_ref-vice_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The document affirms lesbian identities and queer attractions for transgender and nonbinary readers, and regardless of past attraction to or romantic/sexual experience with men.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Am I a Lesbian?" has been widely redistributed; while the original Google Docs link became unavailable by 2020 (ostensibly for violating the Google Docs terms of service), the text of the guide was reshared in PDF form on other platforms like <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autostraddle_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autostraddle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Luz's original post had garnered over 30,000 notes on Tumblr by 2024, and the guide had become known colloquially as the "lesbian masterdoc" by that same year in some online queer communities.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_and_responses">Legacy and responses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_I_a_Lesbian%3F&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legacy and responses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Am I a Lesbian?" was described by Quispe López in <i><a href="/wiki/Them_(website)" title="Them (website)">Them</a></i> in 2024 as "part of the online queer canon" and as having attained a <a href="/wiki/Cult_following" title="Cult following">cult following</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Celebrities <a href="/wiki/Rene%C3%A9_Rapp" title="Reneé Rapp">Reneé Rapp</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kehlani" title="Kehlani">Kehlani</a> have cited the document as helping them come to terms with their lesbian identities.<sup id="cite_ref-them_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PinkNews_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PinkNews-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Variations on the document from other authors, such as a similar resource called "Am I Trans?", have since also been shared.<sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> References to "Am I a Lesbian?" and compulsory heterosexuality as articulated by the document became common on <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> in the early 2020s; some TikTok videos misattributed the coinage of "compulsory heterosexuality" to "Am I a Lesbian?".<sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JoLS_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JoLS-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Duguay described the treatment of compulsory heterosexuality in "Am I a Lesbian?" as overemphasizing the experiences of individuals and minimizing the social and political aspects of Rich's original theorization of the concept.<sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Duguay, the document's framing of compulsory heterosexuality as "an individual problem is not going to invoke change at these bigger societal levels".<sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Caroline Godard, a scholar of French literature, wrote that "the Masterdoc hints that compulsory heterosexuality is a way of thinking about one's relationship to the world — it is an epistemological orientation that one can, with practice, choose to opt out of — whereas for Rich, compulsory heterosexuality describes how the world is organized", concluding that the document suggests a person may opt out of compulsory heterosexuality through an arrival at a personal lesbian identity, which is not possible in Rich's conception of the concept.<sup id="cite_ref-post45_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-post45-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A study published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_Lesbian_Studies" title="Journal of Lesbian Studies">Journal of Lesbian Studies</a></i> described the shifting understanding of compulsory heterosexuality from Rich's theorization to "Am I a Lesbian?" to TikTok as a limited form of <a href="/wiki/Generation_loss" title="Generation loss">generation loss</a> within the queer communities studied.<sup id="cite_ref-JoLS_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JoLS-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_I_a_Lesbian%3F&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Some sources incorrectly spell Luz's first name "Anjeli".<sup id="cite_ref-zhang2023_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zhang2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-them_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-them-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cut_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cut-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Spelled by some sources as "<b>lesbian master doc</b>".<sup id="cite_ref-zhang2023_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zhang2023-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Some sources, such as a 2021 <i><a href="/wiki/Autostraddle" title="Autostraddle">Autostraddle</a></i> article, cite the document as 31 pages in length.<sup id="cite_ref-autostraddle_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autostraddle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Am_I_a_Lesbian%3F&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol 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