It’s hard to believe that in the 1990s the world’s most famous lesbian was a Canadian country singer. Kathryn Dawn Lang — or kd lang, as she styled herself — broke out of one of America’s most staunchly heterosexual music scenes and into the mainstream with Ingénue, her 1992 pop masterpiece. With its hits Constant Craving, Miss Chatelaine and Save Me, it went multi-platinum, won her the Grammy for best female pop vocal and catapulted her to megastardom.
Back then, a butch lesbian pop star was a revelation. With her cropped hair, mannish boots and pinstripe suits, Lang became the poster girl for 1990s “lesbian chic”. A seminal 1993 Vanity Fair cover, shot by Herb Ritts, saw her reclining in a barber’s chair in shirt