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Les Wexner
Les Wexner (Leslie H. Wexner) is an American retail entrepreneur who founded The Limited in 1963, built L Brands with Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, and led it until 2020.
Les XX
Les XX (Les Vingt) was an avant-garde artists' circle founded in Brussels in 1883, whose annual salons showed Impressionist, Neo-Impressionist, and Symbolist art until 1893.
Les Yeux d'Elsa
Les Yeux d'Elsa is a 1942 collection of 21 poems by the French writer Louis Aragon, dedicated to his wife Elsa Triolet, that became a central work of the French Resistance.
Lesa Lesa (லேசா லேசா)
Lesa Lesa (லேசா லேசா), also Laysa Laysa, is a 2003 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Priyadarshan, produced by Vikram Singh, starring Shaam, Trisha, and Madhavan, a remake of Summer in Bethlehem, released 16 May 2003.
Lesavka Chasma
Lesavka Chasma is an 800-km-long chasma (rift canyon) on Venus at 0.8° S, 215° E, IAU-approved in 2003, named for an East Slavic forest deity, daughter of Leshiy and Kikimora.
Lesbia
Lesbia (trainbearers) is a genus of Andean hummingbirds, family Trochilidae, established by Lesson in 1833, holding the Green-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia nuna) and Black-tailed Trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae), known for very long cleft tails.
Lesbian
Lesbian: a woman with enduring sexual or romantic attraction to women; defined across identity, attraction, and behavior; prevalence, health, and legal context worldwide.
Lesbian bed death
Lesbian bed death is a 1980s-popularized term for a supposed decline of sex in long-term lesbian relationships, rooted in Blumstein and Schwartz's American Couples study and since qualified by matched-comparison and desire-discrepancy research.
Lesbian erasure
Lesbian erasure is the denial or omission of lesbian identity, culture, and same-sex attraction in academia, media, healthcare, and data, related to bi-erasure and heterosexism erasure, documented since 1994 scholarship.
Lesbian erotica
Lesbian erotica: erotic work depicting desire between women, from censored precursors like The Well of Loneliness through 1950s lesbian pulp paperbacks, 1970s feminist publishing, and today's digital F/F market.
Lesbian feminism
Lesbian feminism: 1970s second-wave feminist movement, also called lesbian-feminist or radical lesbianism, founded around Radicalesbians and the Furies; challenged homophobia in feminism and sexism in gay politics, advocated separatism, and built a print culture.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA), founded 1974 by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, and others from the Gay Academic Union, is the world's oldest and largest lesbian archive, all-volunteer, in a Park Slope, Brooklyn brownstone since 1993.
Lesbian literature
Lesbian literature is writing by, about, or read as lesbian, from Sappho and Carmilla to The Well of Loneliness, 1950s pulp fiction, 1970s feminist presses, and today's sapphic genre boom.
Lesbian pornography
Lesbian pornography: porn featuring lesbian performers or made for lesbians, distinct from girl-on-girl scenes for male audiences; history from Fatale Video (1985) and On Our Backs to the 2001 AVN crossover, plus Pornhub audience data and feminist critiques.
Lesbian sexual practices
Lesbian sexual practices: sexual behaviors between women, including oral sex, digital penetration, mutual masturbation, and intercrural sex. Covers prevalence, STI transmission risk, safer sex methods, orgasm research, and screening disparities versus heterosexual women.
Lesbian Space Princess
Lesbian Space Princess: 2025 Australian adult animated sci-fi comedy by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese; princess Saira rescues ex Kiki from Straight White Maliens; Teddy Award winner, Berlinale 2025.
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Lesbian Vampire Killers (LVK, US title Vampire Killers) is a 2009 British comedy horror directed by Phil Claydon, starring James Corden and Mathew Horne as friends fighting a cursed village's lesbian vampires; it was critically panned but opened third at the UK box office.
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), a London lesbian and gay activist group founded July 1984 during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike, raised about £20,000 for the Dulais valley mining community in South Wales and helped win NUM backing for lesbian and gay rights.
Lesbos (Λέσβος)
Lesbos (Λέσβος, Lesvos), third-largest Greek island off Asia Minor with capital Mytilene: Petrified Forest of Sigri, Sappho's birthplace, olive and ouzo economy, 2015 refugee gateway.
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome, an X-linked HPRT1 disorder (HPRT deficiency, Lesch–Nyhan disease), causes hyperuricemia, dystonia, and compulsive self-injury; allopurinol controls uric acid only.
Leschi
Leschi (c. 1808 or c. 1825–1858) was a Nisqually leader who resisted the Treaty of Medicine Creek and led fighters in the Puget Sound War of 1855–1856.
Lèse-majesté
Lèse-majesté (crimen laesae majestatis) is the crime of attacking a sovereign's dignity, from Roman law to modern statutes; Thailand's Section 112 carries three to fifteen years, while most European laws are dormant or repealed.
LeSean McCoy
LeSean McCoy, "Shady", former NFL running back (Eagles, Bills, Chiefs, Buccaneers, 2009-2020); 11,102 rushing yards, 6 Pro Bowls, 2 first-team All-Pro, 2013 rushing leader, 2 Super Bowl titles, retired as Eagles career rushing leader.
Leselinyana la Lesotho
Leselinyana la Lesotho ("Little Light of Lesotho") is a Sesotho-language newspaper founded at Morija, Lesotho, in 1863 by the missionary Adolphe Mabille; the country's first, it became the main vehicle for written Sesotho literature.
Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛)
Leshan Giant Buddha (乐山大佛), a 71 m Tang-dynasty stone Buddha carved 713–803 at the Minjiang, Dadu, and Qingyi river confluence in Sichuan; world's largest Buddha, part of the 1996 Mount Emei mixed World Heritage site.
Leshan, Sichuan
Leshan (乐山, formerly Jiazhou) is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan at the Minjiang, Qingyi, and Dadu river confluence, home to the 71 m Leshan Giant Buddha, Mount Emei, and Dongfeng Weir world heritage sites; 3.15 million residents, 2025 GDP 250.2 billion yuan.
Leshi Singh
Leshi Singh is an Indian politician from Bihar, a Janata Dal (United) minister holding the Building Construction portfolio who has represented Dhamdaha in the state assembly since 2000.
Leshy (Леший)
Leshy (леший, leshevik, lesny tsar) is the forest spirit of East Slavic folklore: master of woods and beasts, shapeshifter who leads travelers astray, ambivalent unclean force and just guardian.
Lesinurad
Lesinurad (Zurampic, RDEA594) is an oral URAT1 and OAT4 inhibitor uricosuric for gout hyperuricemia, approved in the US in 2015 and EU in 2016, used only with a xanthine oxidase inhibitor, and withdrawn from the EU in 2020 for commercial reasons.
Lesion
Lesion: any area of abnormal or damaged tissue caused by injury, infection, or disease, anywhere in the body; examples include wounds, ulcers, cysts, and tumors, benign or malignant.