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The term lesbian (before its modern context) referred to someone who was from the Isle of Lesbos. This island was located in the northern part of the Aegean Sea, and the name probably meant "wooded," or something similar.

Aside from being covered in trees though, Lesbos was also the home of the poet Sappho. Sappho was born to an aristocratic family (because there's never been a lot of money in being a poet, it seems), sometime around the year 600 B.C. She was married, and she ran an academy for younger, unmarried women where she lectured and composed poems. It says something about her skill that in a society obsessed with art and poetry Sappho was famed far and wide for her lyric verses.

That's not all, though. Sappho's verses were often very sexual, sometimes bordering on the lewd, and she wrote them about both men and women. Praised in her day she was essentially what writers in the 21st century erotica revolution aspire to be. Also, if there was any doubt that celebrity gossip and obsession with the sex lives of the rich and famous is something else we inherited from the ancient Greeks, the primary thing most people remember about Sappho is she had sex with women. It seems like an odd fact given her fame, fortune, praise from other great writers of the time, and the fact that her face appeared on goddamn currency, but then again she's still a famous poet over a thousand years after her death.