[justshutupandtakeit]

Of course it was where the term Lesbian came from. She ran a school for young girls training them to be good wives and mothers. While there is no doubt she may have loved her charges the evidence of sexual deviancy is quite slim given the volume of evidence upon which it is based.

[Apogee]

There may be more credibility in the claim for Sappho, but it may also be possible to read the poems' eroticism as not being spoken in her voice, which would negate the charge.
It seems to help some persons to always be able to say "David and Jonathan..." or whatever.