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This week’s heroine is: Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968) (more…)

Before meeting Shabby Katchadourian, her management informs me that she’s always late, writes Sophie Wilkinson. So when she arrives before me, gesticulating exuberantly as she gives a tourist directions to the nearby London Eye, I’m pleasantly surprised.

The 24-year-old’s four week stint in the final series of Big Brother had thousands of young lesbians across the nation glued to their screens. Her wardrobe, today consisting of her grandfather’s hat, a military jacket, braces, bandanas and ankle-swingers, betrays more than a “vaudevillian punk” aesthetic. She’s cute, androgynous, cheeky and bloody entertaining, all things onscreen lesbians aren’t allowed to be. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793)

Also known as: Born as Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, later became the Dauphine and then the Queen of France. Played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 biopic Marie Antoinette. (more…)

Friday night. You’re lusty and lonely so you pick up your phone, scroll past the takeaways and order an escort. A couple of hours later a woman comes to your house. You pay her, have sex with her, and she leaves.

No gay bars, no pick up lines, no undisclosed expectations – just sex, for cash. As a lesbian or bisexual woman would you do this? Could you do this? Would you pay another woman to have sex with you? (more…)

“I hate labels. I’ve worked for 25 years to rip labels off. Once you’ve slapped a label on something you no longer have to look behind it and make your own mind up.”

Author Jeanette Winterson recently gave an interview to The Guardian in which she argued against being labelled a “lesbian author”.

But is “lesbian author” still a useful and valid description for readers, asks Lorraine Douglas. Is “gay/lesbian” a valid means of categorising writing?
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This week’s heroine is: Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Also known as: Magalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon (her birth name) or Frida Kahlo de Rivera (after she married, divorced then remarried the Mexican painter Diego Rivera).

Not to be confused with Salma Hayek, who played Kahlo in the 2003 movie Frida. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Getrude Stein (1874-1946)

Also known as: the author of Tender Buttons, an influential art collector, and mentor to Ernest Hemingway (more…)

Big Brother’s old news, right? Its novelty has long worn off, and we’ve better things to do on a Friday night than watch a televised freakshow beg us to run up extortionate phone bills.

But, thanks to one Shabby Katchadourian, Big Brother’s finally worthy of a lesbian/bisexual fanbase, writes Sophie Wilkinson. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Angela Bowie (1949-)

Also known as: Mary Angela Bennett (the name she was born with) and Jipp Jones (an alias she used for modelling) (more…)

As of last year, Apple announced that it had sold over 225 million iPods, writes Bianca Camminga. Since the rise of electronic music, luddites across the globe have been heralding the end of the album, compact disc and, well, life as we know it. (more…)