Why can’t I get contraception as a gay woman?
Because I am dating a woman, I was refused a coil – a routine treatment to help manage period pain
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Pillion is the film Fifty Shades failed to be
Harry Lighton’s debut feature tests the boundaries of queer cinema without a hint of judgement
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On Swift Horses is a plodding take on queer desire
Daniel Minahan’s film, set among gamblers in repressive postwar America, promises subversion but risks very little.
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Chris Bryant: “I’ve got a terrible confession”
The veteran Labour MP on political pragmatism, the Church of England and meeting Peter Mandelson at the YMCA gym.
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Sharing a bed with Edmund White
Epic sexual promiscuity was the key to White’s literary output.
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Love Lies Bleeding is a fun, surreal lesbian romance
This Eighties-set film, in which Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian play star-crossed bodybuilders, is at its most original when it…
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Justin Welby: “It’s better to be woke than asleep”
The Tories decry his interventions; others say he’s too conservative. Can the Archbishop of Canterbury unite a fraying Church?
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Muna’s anti-capitalist pop
The queer pop band has two focuses: making music, and making sure success doesn’t turn them into “evil landlords”.
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
The singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
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Why Eurovision is beloved by the LGBTQ community
The contest, developed in the 1950s as an opportunity for cheap TV, is now synonymous with camp. How did it…
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I wrote the ninth most banned book in America. That sucks
Right-wing groups are challenging This Book is Gay, my guide for young LGBTQ adults. Their homophobic agenda is obvious.
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How Judy Blume became a lightning rod in the culture wars
The frank explorations of puberty and sexuality that made her books radical in the 1970s are newly controversial in the…
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Is a feminist marriage possible?
A new history takes in everything from ancient Roman weddings to Don’t Tell the Bride to ask: can we redefine…
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Sam Smith and the return of the Satanic Panic
The conservative hysteria around pop music, sexuality and Satanism has a long history.
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Uproar over Keir Starmer’s stance on LGBTQ issues
This isn’t the first time the Labour leader has got in trouble for hanging out with certain religious types.
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What X-Men can teach us about prejudice
The Florida state representative Webster Barnaby’s comparison of trans people with X-Men mutants couldn’t have backfired more.
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How Paul O’Grady brought sharp wit and political bite to daytime TV
The comedian, presenter, activist and drag queen brought lacerating yet down-to-earth humour to light entertainment.
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Kate Forbes does not get a free pass just because of her faith
Controversy over her opposition to equal marriage is less about religion than it is politics parading as religion.
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The New York Times is eating itself
NYT editors have rebuked staff and contributors for critiquing the paper’s coverage of trans issues.
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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