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...