PHOTO LUCY POPE
It’ll have been five years next month since I first held my breath and clicked “send” on an email to DIVA’s editor Jane. I was pitching her a column idea called The Rubbish Lesbian, not really expecting her to be interested, but to my great amazement, like a hotter female version of the man from Del Monte, she said, “Yes”. The rest, as we say on the lesbian columnist circuit, is herstory.