A Lesbian Secret

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Purportedly the chronicle of an undercover investigation by intrepid reporter "Doris Hanson," SECRET LESBIAN SOCIETY records the author's interviews and flirtations with film stars, models, and librarians, from Las Vegas to Santa Monica, all while trying earnestly not to forget her boyfriend back home.

But while I had mad crushes on boys and aspired to extreme girliness in aesthetic, my desires were not simply straight. I guess that’s why I hang onto the idea that there’s a Secret Lesbian Club in Hollywood, headed by the girliest boy-mad celebrity of all…because in that alternate universe, sexuality might be hidden but it sure isn’t black and white. This entry was posted in Pop Culture, Queer, Sexuality and tagged bisexuality, femme, Hollywood, lesbian, popular culture, queer reading, romance, sexuality, Taylor Swift by binarythis. Despite this, I continue to hold onto the fantasy that our icons of culture aren’t all that straight and narrow.

It was because the woman had retaliated against domestic abuse in her family home, and lashed out against her abuser. The city, with its colonial-era Art Deco buildings surrounding a market, a football stadium and places of worship, sits on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. I came out late in life, and while no one outright mentioned anything about a Secret Lesbian Society (SLS), I was sure it existed. If you do want to make this work, try talking to her again and explain your current situation isn’t working for you and is making you miserable. Let’s be clear here: I don’t want to essentialise sexuality, like it’s some nugget of “truth” that can simply be unearthed like a buried crystal.

I think I care so much because I grew up looking and acting pretty heteronormative, and was treated as such.She has never enjoyed socialising with me, preferring to go out with her girlfriends and do her own thing — like her book club or, more recently, the choir. Chloe and Aleks met when they were just 12 years old and have been a couple since they were sixteen. They hear about them through loose local networks, both on and offline, and through friends of friends. Evanson, who is ten years older than Swift once commented, “Taylor is a 40 year old in a 19 years olds body”, which is just the kind of thing you’d expect an older girlfriend to say about their younger lover. But the thing is, when you spend most of your days thinking queerly (that is, making the familiar strange, particularly with regard to sexuality and gender), you can’t help but see the world through rainbow glasses.

of Burundi’s 11 million-strong population have access to the internet, and almost all of them are based in Bujumbura. But today, for many young people enjoying the nightlife in Bujumbura, those tensions feel another lifetime away. However, if you look a little closer, we can see a queer subtext in Swift’s life and oeuvre that suggests a rather more fluid expression of desire.

The song also starts with “You stand with your hand on my waist line/It’s a scene and we’re out here in plain sight”, which suggests a romance that might not be perceived as one at first. Instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual, the term most commonly used by Vita and Virginia to describe their "proclivities" is "Sapphist": a euphemism after Sappho, an ancient poet of sensual verse about women, who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos (inspiring, too, the word ‘lesbian’).