Half the women in it were dead – Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Anne Lister – but reading DIVA made me realise that lesbians and bisexual women had actually existed in every time and place – they had always been here, and they had survived, and I would too.

She wants him because everything about him gives her pleasure, and she’s not ashamed of it, and this is what their thrilling dancing embodies.A new student at an all girl's catholic school finds herself as the center of attention of her insatiable classmates.

But I look back now and realise that DIVA was as much a part of my growing confidence as the queer club nights and the snogs and the alcopops. Strange to talk about it as a different time now that we’ve got schools cancelling LGBTQI inclusive education thanks to protests from religious parents, and a Tory MP (Andrea Leadsom) describing inclusive teaching as exposure, but much has changed. After an affair with Kitty (played by Hawes), another male impersonator, Nan becomes the sex slave of wealthy widow Diana (played by Chancellor). This pride month, if we are to be truly proud, it seems about time that lesbian love is reclaimed in its own right.It is telling that, of the top 10 all-time highest-grossing LGBT films in the US, every single one of these is about gay men, or a male same-sex relationship. There's nothing better than a compilation of steamy tales about the joys of the pole and slits, just waiting to get your pants down.