Month: September 2025

  • “Culturally Gay”: Are lesbians allowed to discuss popular culture?

    “Culturally Gay”: Are lesbians allowed to discuss popular culture?

    I was a teenager when weekly celebrity gossip magazines were calling women who weighed 60kg “obese.” How quickly (or slowly) a celebrity woman could lose her pregnancy weight made headlines. Kate Moss proudly declared that her motto was, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” You couldn’t escape it. Celebrity culture and the magazines that…