Previous studies which focus on terms used by the LGBT+ community, namely terms of identification such as lesbian, have described their use in linguistic reclamation as in Brontsema (2004), their frequencies as in Baker (2013), and the benefits of their positive usage in the classroom as in Paiz (2019). These studies have not adequately examined the community’s own feelings towards terms which are used to describe their identities. In our previous study Skipworth & Kapetangianni (2019) which utilized a questionnaire to collect data about LGBT+ persons’ level of identification with terms used in their community, it was found that lesbian and bisexual women relate more strongly to gender-specific terms such as lesbian, dyke, Sapphic, and woman-loving-woman (WLW) than gay and bisexual men relate to similar gendered terms. To examine the reasoning behind this trend, the results of a second study Skipworth & Palmer (2019), which focused on the semantic characteristics of terms of identity used by members of the LGBT+ community, will be analyzed alongside a corpus of Twitter data to determine which characteristics, such as recognizability and inclusivity, Sapphic women find most important in terms of self-identification.