The Washington Post’s recent op-ed by stripper-turned-military-wife Lily Burana was rife with the usual pseudo-liberal piety and pseudo-feminist-academic harrumphing about DC’s own Madame Palfrey. No surprise there, perhaps.

But we’re wondering why Burana now identifies herself only as a former stripper and a current-day military wife. Ten years ago, she was a “queer culture” icon and editrix of the alternative sex mag Taste of Latex. Now she’s apparently straight and married. Are she and the Post saying (without actually saying it) that being queer is a choice? Or are they trying to cover this up, lest the Christian right get an “ah ha!” moment?

Anyway, here’s what the best-selling lesbian magazine Curve Mag had to say about Burana’s back in 2000, before Burana’s first book and her transformation into a straight gal:

Burana became a fixture in San Francisco ’s lesbian sex scene. She showed up as a pin-up on the cover of On Our Backs — an unabashed femme — and at local strip joints, where she became even more of an icon. Then she launched the queer zine Taste of Latex, redubbed herself a “polymorphously perverse mega-femme” in 1991, and briefly edited the magazine Future Sex.

And while we’re on the subject, here is an assessment of Burana via her book from the Village Voice:

Burana breaks her no-contact rule. She lets the men grope her while lap dancing, though the details aren’t laid out for us.

So that’s what makes a good female WaPo reporter! We always wondered how they got those, er, scoops. Anyway, what was it they used to say about a woman’s prerogative to change her mind?