Homo/Bi

Can a person enjoy sex for it’s own sake with whomever they please, be they male or female, yet be only capable of having emotional relationships or falling in love with a similarly gendered mate? Let’s get one thing straight, no pun intended, from the off. I’m new to this. If you’d have called me [...]

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Heteroflexible

Raise your hand if you consider yourself a 50/50 bisexual. At a guess, I’d say that not more than a few of you are waving at me, while the rest look blankly and wonder why such a question is even vaguely important. A quick poll of those surrounding me right now reveals an 80/20, a [...]

Tags:  Â· Posted in: BCN 85: Spr 2007, Libby

Valentines?

A colleague calls my mobile. ‘I know it’s a long shot,’ she says, ‘but can you work Saturday seventeenth’? I reply positively and she is stunned. ‘Seventeenth February’? she asks again, ‘You know that’s valentines weekend’? Yes, yes, yes, I am painfully aware of the fact that this is the weekend that I should be [...]

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Christmas of a crap lesbian

At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle Happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you’re single. – Wendy Cope Wendy Cope doesn’t often get it wrong, but I think on this occasion she [...]

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Diary of a crap lesbian: phase?

Let me take you to Bradford, February 2001. There is a pub, a rainbow flag hanging over the door. Inside, on this Thursday night, sits a group of seven girls. Among them is a spiky haired, plastic bejewelled, seventeen-year-old dyke. Wave, you know her. Beside her is a spiky haired, plastic bejewelled sixteen-year-old dyke. All [...]

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I Love My Prejudiced Friends, I Just Don’t Want Them Having Newspaper Columns

Diary of a ‘crap lesbian’ part seven… Usually, I’m all for journalistic impartiality. In this case I must however say this : Lowri Turner – what a bitch. Since it’s not entirely possible to rip its author apart piece by piece, I shall instead do the same to her recently published piece, ‘However Much I [...]

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Sex & The Singleton

Diary of a ‘crap lesbian’ part six… Mummy – I know you are proud of me, that I have achieved something, no matter how small. I know you like to read what I write, but in this case I am going to suggest that you don’t, because I am going to talk about sex. I [...]

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Living with the past

Diary of a ‘crap lesbian’ part five… Don’t laugh, but I think I have a lot in common with Belle from Disney’s retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It’s true – we both have ideas above our station, are discontent with our given lot, have a great love of books and regularly converse with cockney [...]

Tags:  Â· Posted in: BCN 76: Dec 2005, Libby