I know that in the past it was homosexuality was more suppressed and more against when it came to men being gay like it used to be considered a mental illness in the past and people were attacking people who are homosexual but there was never any talk about women being lesbians like was it more common back then for them to be more acceptable.
I hope I phrase this question OK
There is definitely much more that could be said about this topic, but I did address this to some extent in another answer I just finished this evening: Why would a woman in the 19th / early 20th century remain unmarried?