Lesbians are reclaiming Madonna as we await her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II | Tiff Bakker

The singer is not only a hero for gay men. For a young lesbian like me in the 1990s, she was an object of desire and an inspiration Recently, when Madonna deleted every post from her Instagram profile, it was as if a gay flare had been fired around the world. Cue a flurry of texts from gay male friends, with one declaring that this “purging of the Sistine Chapel” meant the release of Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II was imminent, 20 years after her original disco masterpiece, because Mad...

By Tiff Bakker