New word? hasbians

[Joanne M. Despres]

M-W hasn't picked this up through its regular reading program, but
a NEXIS search yielded 25 hits from 1989 forward.  At his point it
looks like a low-frequency word found mainly in the lesbian/feminist
press, with an occasional appearance in some mainstream English
newspapers and very rare uses in mainstream American papers
(once in the Los Angeles Times and once in the Washington Post).

For what it's worth,

Joanne
On 11 Feb 2003, at 21:55, AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

> Article by Amy Sohn:
>
> If the lipstick lesbian was the gay icon of the nineties, these days she’s
> been replaced by her more controversial counterpart, the hasbian: a woman who
> used to date women but now dates men. Though Anne Heche is the most prominent
> example, many hasbians (sometimes called LUGS: lesbians until graduation) are
> by-products of nineties liberal-arts educations. Caught up in the gay scene
> at school, they came out at 20 or 21 and now, five or ten years later, are
> finding themselves in the odd position of coming out all over again—as
> heterosexuals. . . .
>
> From
> http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/columns/nakedcity/n_8301/
>
> - Allan Metcalf