Peggy Shaw’s starts her solo performance at London's Soho Theatre of MUST: the inside story with the lights up, standing just inches away from the audience. In her native New York accent she tells us, “I’ve been waiting for you and now you’re here. I am falling over the balcony and into the orchestra.”

So begins Shaw’s, and the audience’s, journey through the history of her 65 year old body. In collaboration with the Clode Ensemble, the self-identified butch lesbian grandmother, uses story-telling, song (the audience had to know its Rolling Stones), stills and film to illustrate exactly what her body has experienced. As she glides from story to story, wearing a dapper black suit and pristine shirt and tie, the Clode Ensemble accompanies her with live jazz music via their grand piano, violin and bass. Shaw could almost be a tall Frank Sinatra when she gets her groove on.

Have you ever watched a TV show about lesbians and been disappointed? Utterly disappointed. Perhaps you've thought, "I could do better than that". Faye Hughes has. So frustrated was the 28-year old theatre director by the lack of quality television featuring lesbians that she wrote her own series, "Far Out".

A pilot of the London-based drama about nine lesbian and bisexual women is currently being shown online with a special screening happening later this month. Here she tells LoveGirls all about the online drama she wrote, directed and stars in.

In the London lesbian world it has become folklore: can you remember the first time you saw it? I can.

It was 2001 and I was on my way to meet friends at Tottenham Court Road's First Out cafe one chilly evening. There - taking up what seemed like was the entire skyline - it was: a massive billboard of two young women, lying on a bed in cute underwear, kissing. The black and white poster stopped me in my tracks. Never had I seen such a blatant, and rather foxy, display of lesbianism and I remember rushing into the cafe and asking my friends if they had seen it too. They had, and they were equally happy.

The image, called "Kiss", was part of an advertising campaign for the launch of the now defunct gay website Queercompany.com. It was taken by photographer Tanya Chalkin.

A girl's got to start somewhere hasn't she!? I'm sure we've all been in situations where we're left wondering what exactly the side-show contortionist we've hastily bedded is trying to achieve as she vaults across the room via the chandelier (what can I say, the décor at my house is a little pretentious!). Let's face it; it doesn't always quite go to plan. I for one have ended up in many an unladylike position, some of which have ended painfully; not a heartbroken sobbing wreck, but more like concertinaed into the splits and wedged between a wall and a bed. Believe me; nobody looks pretty from that angle! So, here are a few basics as a refresher for us all and as some handy (no pun intended) hints and tips for you lovely ladies who haven't given it a bash yet... So to speak.

Jump right in girls, the water's warm!

LoveGirls always strive to answer the most important issues in the gay community, forget Prop 8 and Gay Rights, this week we battled over what makes for a good onscreen girl on girl kiss. We agonised for days over which movies should make the grade, okay maybe not days, but we spent a good few hours watching chicks make out. It was painful, but we made it through to the other end, and here's the result of our research - "Top 10 Girl on Girl Movie kisses".

I've never really had what could be described as a "type", when it comes to women I've dated a broad variety of them in the search for "Miss Right".

LITTLE MISS RELIGIOUS

In the beginning ...

She was a hardcore Catholic girl who went to church every week and looked like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Determined not to let our religious differences, her 9pm curfew or her parents disapproving glares get in the way of true love we started dating.

What went wrong ...

I'm sure there are girls out there worth waking up for at 8am on a Sunday morning, but I quickly realised she wasn't one of them. Whilst she was at Church praying for forgiveness for her sins, namely me, I was recovering from an alcohol fueled Saturday night out without her.

I have this friend who is basically a dating disaster, she is pretty, confident and funny, I bet she is sounding like a real catch, right? I can't for the life of me work out where she is going wrong, but all her relationships seem to run a similar cycle. Being the good friend that I am, I decided to catalogue the cycle in the desperate hope that maybe someone else can pin point whats going wrong with her relationships ...

Leave a comment letting us know the last thing you had to apologise for or your tried and tested method of saying sorry and you could win an Ann Summers goody bag.

The longer a relationship lasts the more likely I am to screw up, so learning to say sorry has become a necessity. You don’t need a degree in Advanced Mathematics to understand that an unhappy girlfriend = no sex. Whether you're apologising for not noticing a new hair cut, forgetting an anniversary or getting so drunk at her sisters wedding that you ended up throwing up over her mum's favourite dress, what you say and do counts for a lot.

Some movies just dont deserve wasting a tub of Ben and Jerrys on. I was forced to watch the Catwoman movie last night with some friends and what followed was a lengthy drunken debate - "Is Catwoman a Lesbian?"

I argued on the lesbian side for two reasons;
Halle Berry is crazy hot in that movie
The world needs a Lesbian Superhero (with an oiled up body and revealing leather catsuit)

I was determined to convice the others that she was infact a closet dyke, a loosely held argument soley based upon the fact that we all wanted to do some nasty things to Halle Berry.

Win a copy of The L Word (Series 4) DVD - leave a comment letting us know about an experience you have had with an Ex.

Going from being in a relationship to being friends is never a smooth journey, sadly it's happened to me a few times and it always seems that both parties have different perceptions of what being an Ex involves. My first major breakup was with the first girl I ever really loved, we’ll call her Kelly – because that's her name! ;) We got engaged after a few months and were living together, the first sign things weren't going to work out was when I found out she had slept with someone else, always a giveaway that it’s time to move on. It was a textbook breakup, we talked for hours, tears flowed and we promised to always remain friends.