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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…)

This week’s heroine is: Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992)

Also known as: Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress (both titles of films she starred in) and Lola-Lola, her character’s name in her breakthrough role in 1930 cabaret cult classic, The Blue Angel. (more…)

Tonight (Monday 31 May 2010) the BBC airs The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, a period drama  based on the fastidiously-detailed diaries of an 18th century gentlewoman. Here Kaite Welsh gives the lowdown on what to expect from the scandalous Miss Lister. (more…)

This week’s heroine is: Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975)

Also known as: The ‘Creole Goddess,’ ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Bronze Venus.’ (more…)