Label Policing Is Part of Lesbian History. We Should Leave It in the Past

King Princess dropped a bomb back in 2024, and it’s just now detonating on the lesbian internet.It was all well and good being king of lesbian pop until social media found out Princess once casually noted that she’d slept with cis men — just for kicks on tour sometimes in foreign countries. (When in Rome…)“Sometimes you get bored, and I’m just gonna ride a cock,” King Princess confessed while guesting on Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily. It was ostensibly a safe space, queer co-hosts and all, but the soundbite resurfaced in sapphic corners of the internet nearly two years later, troubling some enough to spring into action on X, Instagram and TikTok to diagnose King Princess with a serious case of internalized biphobia.King Princess posted a video in response. “The amount that I actually care about men romantically or sexually is so small, like, it would be inappropriate to call myself bisexual,” she clarified. “I am a lesbian, I’ve been a lesbian, I will continue to be a lesbian, because it doesn’t change.” It appears lesbians are largely pressed by King Princess’s claims because she’s repped lesbians loudly and proudly since she debuted “1950” in 2018 — boosted by a cryptic Harry Styles tweet, no less. The lyrical scavenger hunt introduced a queerly royal King Princess with a “Carol” role play set to song; a self-professed “gay ass bitch at a major label” at a time when former Disney star Hayley Kiyoko was so singularly leading the pack in proclaiming that “girls like girls like boys do” that she was deemed Lesbian Jesus by her rainbow flag-toting fans. How refreshing to have a certified, self-defined lesbian amid shots of fluidity-for-the-moment like “Cool for the Summer” and “Girls,” the controversial Rita Ora, Cardi B, Bebe Rexha, and Charli XCX collab with a drinking song chorus: “Sometimes, I just wanna kiss girls, girls, girls! Red wine, I just wanna kiss girls, girls girls.”Bisexuality was so