Wendy Young shares a love letter to her home, South Africa BY WENDY YOUNG I have a pinguecula.It is mine and I’m keeping it.It isn’t doing any harm and it isn’t too terribly ugly. Pin-GWEK-yoo-lahA pinguecula? you might ask. Is it some sort of strange pet I’ve never heard of? We’ll come back to what [….]
Nora Mulready spent most of her life ignoring her feelings, until they became impossible to ignore BY NORA MULREADY This week I applied to be a trustee of an organisation. In the equalities monitoring form, I ticked the “Gay/Lesbian” box for the first time. I loved doing it so much that I took a picture [….]
How do you prove your sexuality? DIVA meets six womxn who have been forced to do just that BY DANIELLE MUSTARDE Imagine for a moment you’re in a courtroom. It’s not the first time you’ve been here. All eyes are on you. “Are you a lesbian?” the judge asks, in a language that is not [….]
Ahead of LBT Women’s Health Week, North Hearts FM radio presenter Mel Switters shares her breast cancer story BY MEL SWITTERS I’ve always loved my boobs. Yes, I disliked them slightly when I was 14 due to the fact that I was an early developer, but mainly we have always got along. I never suspected [….]
“Whenever I talk about bisexuality around my family the word sits dirty in my mouth” BY IRENE PAZ The first person I ever came out to was my best friend in high school when I was 16. With it came an acquiescent feeling of relief, but I also felt scared. Scared that somehow, now that [….]
“Within two days I have come out to my cleaner, and then to my 20-year-old son” BY WOMAN ON THE VERGE It has been quite a week. I don’t know if there is something in the water but, after a long time of not discussing my sexual preferences with anyone, within two days I have [….]
