Lesbian Crush Diaries

The first clues

By Natasha Holme | Published: May 21, 2018

Despite knowing—on some level—at a very young age that I was a lesbian, it took a silly amount of time for the pink penny to finally drop. Into my university years I was writing entry after entry in my diary about how beautiful my latest girl-crush’s eyes were … yet expressing in the very next paragraphs my bewilderment as to why I never felt excited when a boy touched me. My diary makes for a forehead-slapping read.

So, how could I know I was gay when I didn’t know? What were the mental prods? What were those early signs?
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Self-preservation is just NO FUN

By Natasha Holme | Published: January 8, 2018

Jamie: What do you think of yourself when you look back at what you wrote?

Natasha: I feel just slightly remorseful, as I was far more whacky, interesting, adventurous, irresponsible, self-destructive than I am today. What I gained in self-respect and self-awareness, I lost in character.
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51 Quotes about diary-writing

By Natasha Holme | Published: June 1, 2017

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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Original Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia website

By Natasha Holme | Published: May 25, 2017

As of May 2017, I have archived my original 2012 www.lesbian-crushes-and-bulimia.com website.

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Extract from Secret Diaries Past & Present

By Natasha Holme | Published: January 26, 2017

I must not be obsessive

Natasha
Although I feel mentally stable, self-aware, and well balanced, I do sometimes question my addiction to recording my life, and the two or more hours every day that I devote to it. Do you feel that Anne Lister’s obsessiveness was in any way unhealthy?
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Secret Diaries Past & Present

By Natasha Holme | Published: November 23, 2016

Secret Diaries Past & Present book cover

I have just published a new book—a Q&A collaboration with Helena Whitbread, author of The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. Anne was a wealthy lesbian diarist who lived two centuries before our time.
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Reasons NOT to keep a diary

By Natasha Holme | Published: January 24, 2016

warning sign, forbidden, prohibited, do not

What was to become a life-long obsession with diary-writing was largely spurred by the chance overhearing of this comment at school when I was seventeen. …

Thursday 9th October 1986
“Not in an unpleasant way.”
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Confessions of a teenage stalker

By Natasha Holme | Published: August 27, 2015

keyhole on grunge background

In my mid twenties (in the mid 1990s) I was persuaded by a friend to read a book called Obsessive Love, by Liz Hodgkinson. The author, having experienced the phenomenon of obsessive love herself, offers many ideas on how it arises. The idea that remained with me is that my teacher, ‘Miss Williams’ (as I call her in my published diaries) and I were lovers in our past lives, that I had had a sudden death and so had carried the intensity of our love, grief from the rift, and recognition of my lover, into my current life. Miss Williams, on the other hand, had lived for a long time after my death, she had overcome the love, her grief had subsided, and she no longer recognised me in this life.
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Am I gay?

By Natasha Holme | Published: May 4, 2015

question marks, love hearts, school logo, phoenix

Four summers ago I met a woman called Cath who had tried out three husbands and who had concluded that marriage is “boring.” Her sister is a “gold star lesbian” (in fact has never even kissed a man), and still the penny didn’t drop for Cath until she herself was fifty-three, when she first fell in love—with a woman. How many women have spent their whole life not realising that they’re gay? How many women realised when they were five years old? How do you know?
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Read a preview of Lesbian Crush Diaries

By Natasha Holme | Published: April 20, 2015

Read the sample in Kindle Cloud Reader.

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