Sorry I haven't gotten the chance to respond before now, thank you for all the replies!
@chemgoddess - I'm definitely curious to find like-minded people in the pole community, as Phoenix Hunter explained. There's so much variety of ages, races and body types that I've seen in pole that I was kind of sad to not find much at all on lesbian pole dancers. Trying to search "lesbian pole dancer" on Google just gets you a bunch of porn sites =/ The other unfortunate thing that I saw was a fair amount of casual heteronormativity (things that assume heterosexuality) on various pole blogs and sites owned by straight female pole dancers across the web. I really don't think any of these women even realized they were doing it, but those things were still jarring and I wasn't able to get into their work in the same way after that, and it made me feel very alone.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of those women before! I'll definitely look them up :)
@Rhianael, millonme - I've wondered about that too, making people feel weird or like I must be trying to hit on them because I'm a lesbian. In the end, because I want to be open about my life (and also just want any opportunity to bring up my wonderful wife :) ), I am still open about my orientation, and the studio I go to has been good and accepting. At the end of the day, I figure, if a woman *assumes* you're hitting on her just because you're attracted to women, that says more about her than you =P
@polekat, Stefana of Light - I've known a number of women who have said that, they're attracted to men but appreciate the female form more. To be honest, I think I said that at one point too before I accepted the true extent of my feelings for women.
It's really not something I can separate out, myself. My aesthetic appreciation for women, my sexual attraction, my romantic feelings, my general affinity for other women - it all kind of blends together, it's all part of the same thing for me. It's like... "Do I want to be with her or be her? Ah, screw it, it's both" =P The only feelings I've ever had for men are feelings of obligation and, when I was younger and didn't know what lesbianism was, envy that they got to date girls =P (yet that was somehow enough to convince myself that I was bisexual when I was younger... But that's a different story)