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Write something from a dyke perspective, they reckon … what’s that? I suppose I have a permanent lesbian’s eye view, being a lesbian and all, but what makes it different to heterovision?

Through the glass dyke-ly I see a world that’s far too diverse to bother with closets, but we do. Everyone has secrets. When Michael Stipe came out he said he was fed up being made to feel guilty, when he wasn’t ashamed of being gay, he just wanted to keep...

I keep attempting to disprove stereotypes about dykes in these columns, but the truth is that there are some I cheerfully conform to.

Short hair – check. It’s still extremely short after being shaved right off and I love it. I feel confident and in control with short hair and I reckon it suits me too. I have also, while being a fully functioning dyke, had very long hair. I just find it annoying and yes, I enjoy the fact that I’m easily identified as gay. Even when I’m be...

“Write a column on dyke fashion!” said the ed. I immediately thought of the column I wrote years ago where I would beg and plead and whinge at lesbians to get some fashion sense. In the years since, I've decided not to care. Dykes are not a badly dressed group of people, they're just a minority and therefore easy to pick on. I want to state right here and now that I have never ever seen a lesbian wearing dungarees – and while I have seen plenty (myself included) in checked shirts, I've...