I prefer to be called gay, a gay woman not a lesbian

I don't like the term - a lesbian.
I think it is the A infront of lesbian
That offends me.
I am a person.
I am a woman.
I don't see myself as a lesbian
I feel like the term represents
Being called an alien, an anomaly, a separate
From normal people. A something else.
Men are gay. Gay men.
Women should be gay women.
Women who happen to be gay.
Don't tell me it is just a term,
A means to describe a person.
It is falling out of style
And I think more
Women would feel more
Comfortable in their
Own skin and to come out,
if a lesbian was dropped
In favour of a more modern
And appropriate term
To describe a woman's orientation.
I say that I am gay.
Trans people. They are trans.
Men. They are gay men.
Bisexual. They are Bisexual.
Women attracted to other women only,
Are a something else.
Not lesbian woman. A lesbian.
I dislike the otherness of the term.
That is why I say that I am gay.
Are you a lesbian?
I try not to hesitate
And say yes, I'm gay.
Ah so you are...
(then they pause too ...)
A lesbian.
You don't look like.... One.
Even straight people
Have trouble saying a lesbian.
Watch Peter Kay
And his curly hair sketch.
So they are a....