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Opinion
last word
from Holestar
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Defining and labelling sexuality can be
a tricky affair, exclaims Holestar, the
‘Tranny with a Fanny’.
It took me a long time to come out to myself. I spent years trying
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to be conventionally heterosexual and, despite being in the Army,
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where there were gay girls a go-go, I denied my lust for the ladies
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out of fear. After leaving, I rethought what I wanted, and decided
to live my life for me, and chose to not conform to anyone’s
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ideals in all areas of my life: with my career, lifestyle and sex life.
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Most of the time, I identify sexually as ‘queer’ or simply ‘sexual’.
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I don’t want my sexuality pigeon-holed as I consider it to be
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undefined.
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I don’t consider myself a lesbian. I may currently have a female
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partner but would never rule out being with a man again. I
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prefer candyfloss to lollypops but why exclude any types of
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candy at the sweetshop? Unfortunately I’ve known women
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who identify as lesbian who have been rejected by their
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community when they have an affair with a man; their gay gold
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club card ripped up and themselves booted out of the sisterhood.
The bisexual label doesn’t suit me either because it can raise can pretty much be who I want, yet perhaps it’s time for a new
mistrust from both hetero and homosexual communities. ‘ism’ to describe indistinct sexuality. But then again, should it be
People assume that the term suggests that your relationships necessary to define ourselves for others?
are temporary, and you’ll eventually revert to the other gender. The main thing is for us to realise that we don’t have to
I believe human beings are bisexual by nature. How far we conform to stereotypes or rules, and you can call yourself
slide up and down the scale of gay and straight as a lifestyle is whatever you want. Just be safe and, ideally, happy.
down to personal choice or social conditioning. I’ve heard gay
men and women say they’d never, ever go with a member of Holestar regularly performs and DJs as the Tranny with a Fanny; a woman
the opposite sex as if the suggestion is repulsive, however, it’s hard dressing up as a drag queen, reclaiming fabulousness to the female body and
to know if this is because of genuine preference or sexual politics. celebrating it. She is also a visual artist taking a Fine Art Masters at Central
I applaud and support those who continue to assert gay St Martins. For more information visit:
rights and equality, and I am grateful that I live in a time where I www.holestar.com or www.myspace.com/holestar
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We’ve all seen them; leaning that looks like you or, even better,
against the bar, walking along the grab an easily influenced girl, and
beach, dancing strangely together. spookily make them morph into you
The twin girlfriends. Women that over a period of weeks, months, even
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seem totally unaware that they are days. Other varieties are the extreme D
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the same person. The first sighting tall-short coupling (we’ve all seen it)
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was in 1965 in Sweden, when two tall and the “How on Earth did she get
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blonde women were seen snogging HER?” specialities, which are fun to
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while up a mountain slope. When the ponder on whilst sat in the corner of
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two women embraced each other your favourite watering hole. We’re all
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they looked like a giant lesbionic oak nice to each other face-to-face, but
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tree, so much so that people still write we still seek out these peculiarities
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eulogies about the ‘Great Yellow Tree’. and then rip them to shreds on the S A
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Nowadays, it’s all the rage. Grab a girl way home!
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