International Asexuality Day (IAD) was announced on 31 January, and will be held on 6 April from 2021 onwards. The day aims to celebrate and support all asexual people, with a particular focus on those outside the Western, English-speaking world. It was set up collaboratively by individuals and organisations from 22 different countries and regions. […]Read More
“Best. Gay. Cousin. Ever.” read the T-shirt, which the 17-year-old dancer and singer JoJo Siwa posed in to officially reveal that she is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Two weeks later, JoJo introduced her 10 million Instagram followers to her girlfriend, Kylie, in celebration of their two-month anniversary. This has certainly captured everyone’s attention; […]Read More
Historically, both the LGBTQ+ community and ‘the composer’ have been painted as ‘the outsider’ by many. But LGBTQ+ composers have been present throughout musical history, from the Baroque period, through the height of the Classical age, onwards into nineteenth-century impressionism and modernism, and now within today’s contemporary world of classical music. Whether or not they […]Read More
Thirty-three-year-old Oscar-nominated Elliot Page publicly came out as transgender on their Twitter this morning. This comes six years after Elliot, formerly Ellen, came out as gay in 2014. Elliot is famous for his role as Vanya in The Umbrella Academy – with the filming of the third season due to start shortly – and his […]Read More
There are worse ways to spend an evening than watching the gorgeous cast of Netflix’s new LGBTQ+ film The Boys In The Band. Based on Mart Crowley’s 1968 play, The Boys In The Band centres on Harold’s (Zachary Quinto) birthday, celebrated by his coven of friends: Michael (Jim Parsons), Donald (Matt Bomer), Bernard (Michael Benjamin […]Read More
Also known as (Celebrate Bisexuality Day, Bisexual Pride Day, CBD, and Bisexual Pride), Bi Visibility Day is all about celebrating and raising awareness of bi+ identities. As defined by Robyn Ochs, bisexuality is “The potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at […]Read More
Morse code? But make it gay, sis. No shade hunty but here’s the piping hot tea. Long before slaying, kiking and okuring, British gays communicated with one another using Polari. Polari wasn’t a constructed language but rather a mysterious vocabulary developed during the 1960s, a time when society not only stigmatised, but illegalised, homosexuality. Hence […]Read More
Rainbows are synonymous with gay pride, but are now being used to support the NHS. Has the casual dusting off of a century's worth of history completely missed the point?Read More
It is easy to feel bleak about the future of queer spaces. According to UCL research, 58% of LGBTQ+ bars in London closed their doors between 2006 -2016. The main reason for this was found to be development, the sanitisation and gentrification of the capital. And London isn’t the only place that has been affected; […]Read More
This week, a Boston-based group, Super Happy Fun America, applied for a permit with the City of Boston to host a ‘Straight Pride Parade’, so named because, as the group believes, straight people are amongst an oppressed majority. In a world where they are subject to the politically-correct standards of the so-called gay agenda in […]Read More
Being gay is still one of the most contentious issues that stands in the forefront of the debate of our country’s changing moral standpoint. While a string of Parliamentary legislation has helped to bolster a tolerant and egalitarian society into which LGBT individuals are actively welcomed, a new survey released by the charity Stonewall revealed […]Read More
My sexuality is not a joke. Don’t you dare use my sexuality to fuel your ‘quirky night out’. Gay bars are not the same as normal bars. They are effectively the only spaces in society that are specifically dedicated to the LGBTQ community.Read More
It’s official: after a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling on the 26th June, gay marriage has now been legalised in all 50 American states. In the words of Chief Justice Roberts who voted in favour of the ruling: “if you are among the many Americans – of whatever sexual orientation – who favour expanding same-sex marriage, […]Read More
With the much anticipated return of Orange is the New Black back on our TV (or rather, laptop) screens, it’s time to touch on a subject that the Emmy Award-winning show has actively decided to tiptoe around: bisexuality. The sexual orientation of its lead character Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) hasn’t yet been made exactly clear on the show, with her ex-boyfriend […]Read More
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