There was a time, not so long ago, when if you typed Jenna Lyons’ name into Google, you would come face to face with a murky search history relating to her “torrid lesbian relationship”, after she left her husband in October 2011 to be with Courtney Crangi.

Lyons weathered tabloid gossip with dignity. And at an awards show in November that year, where she won the title of Fashion Original, she publicly thanked “Courtney, who’s shown me new love”.

Eight years on, and sexual fluidity is now throughly part of mainstream culture. Thanks in part to the visibility of high-profile women like Kristen Stewart, Cara Delevingne and Janelle Monáe (a self-styled “queer-ass motherf*cker) refusing to label the terms of their love, positive LGBT representation on screen, and public attitudes shifting decidedly in favour of same-sex acceptance, things feel freer than ever. With the Same-Sex Couples Act of 2013, formal marriage equality has finally been written into the lawbooks too, while in the Houses of Commons, there are currently 45 MPs who define as LGBTQ.

“Why do people still need to come out in 2019?”