Filthy Lesbian: Found (Filthy Lesbian Series Book 6)

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This is a very good thing for companies keen to jump onto the pride month marketing bandwagon, who both exploit and propagate the notion of ‘gay as norm’.

Such an androcentric ‘normal’, extended to represent the whole community, is equally seen in the rainbow flag which dominates Pride, and all the rainbow-branded merch that entails.It centres on Nan (played by Stirling), a lesbian male impersonator working in the world of Victorian music hall.

For the queer community in Britain, the 1990s was a decade inflected by Section 28 – pearl-clutching horror at the notion that school children might think being gay was okay, a Tory councillor (William Brownhill) speaking openly about killing “filthy queers”. The buzz about lesbians made it easier for DIVA to get attention in the mainstream press, but the point was that it was by, for, and about queer women. Nowadays, gender equality has progressed considerably, but the old, lesbian stereotypes still haunt the popular psyche.When it doesn’t stink of bitter misandry, ‘lesbian’ seems dirty and embarrassing, quite alien from the earnest, loving relationships that many queer women dream of.

Tonight in the lesbian retirement community where I spend the winter I was flipping the TV dial and happened to come across a rerun of Dirty Dancing, a 1987 film set in a Jewish Catskills resort.With this being the case, the less-officious, gender-neutral ‘gay’ has become something of a safe haven. In an unprecedented turn of events, she is allowed to conduct an "art therapy" session in which she will be the model. This pride month, if we are to be truly proud, it seems about time that lesbian love is reclaimed in its own right. The femme lesbian looked more feminine in dress and mannerisms, but she had antipathy toward aspects of the conventional female role, and she was attracted to butches. When I told my mum my idea for this article, she wrinkled her brow and asked me, “ Is there any shame around the word ‘lesbian’?