WORDS CARRIE LYELL
I’ve always been visible as a lesbian, long before I even knew what a lesbian was. I was serving butch dyke realness on the swings aged six, sporting a skinhead at seven and wearing dungarees and Doc Martens, well, throughout my childhood, really. Carrie was a queer fashion icon in the 90s, that’s for sure. Looking back through family photos now, two things strike me. One, it’s incredible that my parents didn’t know they had a baby gay in their midst, and two, where can I get those dungarees? Shoreditch, eat your heart out.