Jessie — The Queer Wardrobe Project

Jessie

Jessie, 39, is a musician, leading Lips Choir, as well as working on Girls Rock London and performing classical and contemporary music. Her different roles create different wardrobes, from expressive jumpsuits and practical dungarees to subtler “concert blacks”. She lives in North London and identifies as pansexual

When I was exploring my sexuality for the first time with women, I bought this really amazing shirt. It had tigers and leopards all over it. I remember wearing it and being like, “Wow, this is really revealing of my gayness, my newfound queerness”. L

If I mention I've got a male partner, I really want to talk about how I'm not straight. But when I was going out with a woman, there were lots of spaces that I felt unsafe, being gay in public. And this is a really interesting, opposite problem about

I remember going on my first date with a woman. She looked quite femme and blonde, and I got in such a state because I didn't know what to wear. I became obsessed with the fact that I should probably dress quite macho or masculine, because she looked