Even though women who identified as exclusively lesbian pretty much stayed that way, there was undeniable variation in whom they were involved with and whom they were attracted to. Very few were “gold star lesbians”—women who only sleep with other women. One woman who had in fact only been with women for the entire twenty-year period told Diamond during their most recent interview that she and her wife had broken up. This woman, newly single and devastated, had then become involved with a man. She told Diamond, “I think I’ll end up with a woman again, but maybe I just needed a change.”
