"In 2011, a couple of years before the David Bowie Is exhibition opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, I came out as a lesbian. Up until that point I had been exclusively dating men, one of whom I married. Two years later, I was in my early 40s, a newly separated mother of four children, living in the US. I had started to question my gender identity, as well as my sexual orientation, and was looking for some answers."
"I was born in England in the early 1970s before the advent of the internet. As a teenager, my friends and I didn't have Reddit or YouTube to turn to when we had questions about sex; instead, we turned to pop stars, and in the 80s everyone was messing with gender. Annie Lennox wore boys' clothes, Boy George wore girls' clothes, and pop groups such as Erasure and Bronski Beat had members who were out and proud."
"I didn't know exactly what I was looking for when I walked into the exhibition perhaps I hoped that by losing myself in the opulence of Bowie's gender experimentation I might, in turn, stumble across a clue to my own identity. I soon found myself standing in front of a small television screen on which the video for Boys Keep Swinging was playing on repeat."
A woman came out as a lesbian in 2011 after years of dating men and marriage. In her early 40s and newly separated with four children, she began questioning both sexual orientation and gender identity. Born in England in the early 1970s, she turned to pop stars for gender models during the pre-internet era when figures like Annie Lennox and Boy George blurred gender norms. She lived as a tomboy in the 1990s, reverted to femininity to marry, moved to the US in 2007, and after her marriage ended felt drawn back to masculinity, visiting the V&A Bowie exhibition seeking insight.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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