Femfan

Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

So, at last, backed by a formidable phalange of femfans, I dare speak up, brave lassie that I am.

When I went to my first science fiction convention in 1961, fandom was entirely white and 80 percent male. Women were marginalized as "femfans." Gay people were in the closet.