WLW: 

• Women Loving Women, refers to lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or otherwise same-gender loving women (pronounced “W-L-W” or “wuh-luh-wuh”).
• Often used in communities of color, this specification grew from the historical notion that any woman who had emotional, romantic, intimate, and/or sexual partnerships with women as lesbians.
• As more understandings of sexuality have come to light, WLW has largely replaced lesbian as a unifying term to describe these women.