This chapter examines how the social sciences might rethink how we understand and represent lesbian lives and move away from androcentric thinking when conducting LGBTQ+ research. This chapter illustrates how androcentrism normalises and maintains lesbian invisibility in academic scholarship, especially within LGBTQ+ spatial studies, and encourages a move away from such frameworks. Drawing from intersectional feminist and decolonial thinking, this chapter critiques the “add-on approach,” where lesbians are superficially included in LGBTQ+ research that predominantly centres gay male experiences. Instead, it advocates for lesbian standpoints to be central to scholarly understandings of LGBTQ+ life. This chapter then reflects on methodological challenges of engaging with “hard-to-reach” lesbian participants and reviews the author’s research process in studying lesbian experiences of Manchester’s LGBTQ+ social spaces. This offers practical insights for developing more inclusive strategies for future LGBTQ+ research. Ultimately, this chapter calls for a critical and proactive shift in how lesbian lives are researched, represented and theorised, grounded in intersectional, feminist methodologies that embrace diverse experiences. The final section of this chapter outlines how doing so generated new insights into the politics of LGBTQ+ space, lesbian territoriality within commercial LGBTQ+ spaces and the creation of new concepts that help capture the complexities of the everyday experiences within LGBTQ+ social spaces.