We might now be tempted to think of these women of bisexual, but we must be wary of retrospectively applying anachronistic labels. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Sandi Toksvig goes behind the iconic green door of one of the most famous lesbian venues in the world, The Gateways Club.

Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. So, why not re-read the lives of actors themselves, given that we can be 99% sure that the narratives produced about them by tabloids and other press are also entirely fiction?Both our families are very opposed to anything involving homosexuality, and since we both fear the fall-out, have kept things secret. She tries to keep a secret from her mother that she is secretly married just to save her marriage but it only works for an amount of time until she figure out that this is her life and if she choose to like women she will and none can tell her nothing different. The BBC messaged Niya to tell her that we would be using images of a violet to illustrate the memes. In any case, you might be thinking: why care about Taylor Swift’s sexuality anyway—shouldn’t that be none of our business?

Instagram pictures posted by Swift, hundreds of photos in gossip magazines, TV interviews, and so on.We have been best friends for over ten years and started dating about three years after we met each other. But while I had mad crushes on boys and aspired to extreme girliness in aesthetic, my desires were not simply straight. I want to have a bit more anonymity and I just want to protect some of what people take for granted in their lives that I've forgotten to have.

They could protect her while she was in the family home, but they could not guarantee her safety outside if the wrong people found out. She watched films featuring same-sex couples and read a lot of reports on lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) communities. When it comes to their letters to each other, though, they don’t shy away from talking about the physical side of sapphism.

We can’t be sure whether is was a bearding scenario when Swift and Lautner got together, but they sure were very showy yet extremely uncomfortable together.