Racy TV series Gentleman Jack has encouraged a generation of women to open up about their own sexuality.
The period drama, starring Suranne Jones and a smash hit on BBC1, is based on the real-life diaries of landowner Anne Lister. She dressed in black, wore a top hat and was dubbed Gentleman Jack – Jack being slang in the 1800s for a gay woman.
Sally Wainwright, who wrote TV hit Happy Valley, based the series on Anne’s revelations.