Which poet from Lesbos wrote the first lyric poetry portraying homoerotic feelings?

Sappho was an Archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by music. In ancient times, Sappho was widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets and was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess", just as Homer was "The Poet". The scholars of Alexandria included her in the canon of nine lyric poets.

Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost or has mostly survived in fragmentary form, except for the "Ode to Aphrodite" which is certainly complete. New poems were discovered in 2004 and 2014 including the poem "Tithonus" which was the subject of international news coverage, and was described by Marilyn Skinner as "the trouvaille of a lifetime".

Beyond her poetry, Sappho is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women, with the English words sapphic and lesbian deriving from her name and that of her home island respectively. The seaside village of Skala Eresou on the island of Lesbos became a popular pilgrimage for lesbians in the late 20th century.