Category: LGBTQ+ Community

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How the queer, ESEA community is celebrating Lunar New Year

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From underground queer raves in London to crafting new traditions in Shanghai, here’s how the Year of the Snake is being celebrated. WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2024 AND HAS BEEN UPDATED IN-HOUSE. Lunar New Year is upon us and it’s the year of the Snake. An annual 15-day cultural tradition, Lunar New Year marks the beginning of spring and the arrival of the new year.  For many of us, celebrations centred around family and heritage can be a difficult…

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Arab Articles Author Book Culture Interview Language LGBTQ+ books LGBTQ+ Community LGBTQ+ language News Originals Queer

From anfona to zalamiyya: Here’s your queer cultural guide to Arab slang

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Lebanon-born graphic designer, writer and visual artist Marwan Kaabour discusses his debut book which playfully maps out the dynamic lexicon of the LGBTQIA+ Arab community.   WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH It’s not always safe to step into the world of queerness. Often, we wonder how our identities will be received, even just by being ourselves. And, sometimes, we don’t even have the means – the labels or terms – to express who we really are. We craft new words to bridge the gap between the words on our tongue and the…

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“I don’t want to be a superstar”: Kehlani hates being famous – but loves fucking with gender norms

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Singer-songwriter Kehlani talks finding gender euphoria on and off the stage, defiantly speaking her mind and her full-throttle new album, CRASH. WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH There’s a collision on the cover art of CRASH: a shattering of expectations, as Kehlani – donning black and gold six-inch thin strap heels and a glittering spiky silver two-piece – poses atop a totalled blood red car. Her return is striking, two years after her third studio album, Blue Water. Gone are moments of moss-covered beach rocks, the pools of salty seawater and the…

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Heartbreak High’s Ayesha Madon is more than a TV star

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The rising star on unlearning comphet culture, Rina Sawayama’s influence on her music career and her new single ‘Blame Me’ WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH PHOTOGRAPHY BY YASMIN SUTEJA Right now, it’s Ayesha Madon’s moment. Poised, face illuminated by a beaming ring light, the 26-year-old Australian actress is grinning over Zoom. And, of course, she’s excited. In recent years, a lot has been at play for Madon – she’s garnered high praise for her lead role in Netflix’s campy teen series Heartbreak High and picked up nominations including the AACTA Audience…

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Articles Black history Books Culture Faber Jason Okundaye LGBTQ+ books LGBTQ+ Community News Queer history

GAY TIMES partners with Faber Members for an evening of revolutionary queer storytelling

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GAY TIMES has teamed up with Faber Members for a special Pride celebration which will include readings from authors Jason Okundaye, Oisín McKenna and Joelle Taylor. Summer is here there’s no better way to spend a sweltering London evening than celebrating queer love with a night of readings, music, film and drinks at Faber HQ, The Bindery on Hatton Garden. The event will begin with readings by Oisín McKenna from his acclaimed debut novel Evenings and Weekends and poet Joelle Taylor from her award-winning collection, C+nto & Othered Poems, Orwell…

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Articles Author Books Brontez Purnell Culture Interview LGBTQ+ Community LGBTQIA+ community memoir News Originals Sex

Punk polymath Brontez Purnell on the cult of masculinity, trimming weed and the ‘McDonaldisation’ of identity

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To mark the release of his poetic memoir Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt, the writer reflects on twenty years of writing and living queer life in candid conversation with Eli Cugini WORDS BY ELI CUGINI HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN Anyone who thinks that polymaths don’t exist anymore probably hasn’t met Brontez Purnell. The Oakland-based novelist, musician, dancer, filmmaker, zine maker — and overall ‘pretty Black boy’ extraordinaire (to quote his interview with Steve Lacy) — can now add ‘poet’ and ‘memoirist’ to the list. Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt follows Pernell’s…

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Articles Data Equal pay Finance gender Gender gap Latinx Lesbian LGBTQ+ LGBTQ+ Community Money News Originals Self-identification UK Black Pride Visibility Wage gap

What is the LGBTQ+ wage gap, and how can we fight it?

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LGBTQIA+ employees are often paid less than their straight counterparts, data shows. What can we do to close the gap? WORDS BY NICOLE GARCÍA MÉRIDA HEADER BY YOSEF PHELAN Minorities never really need to look at data to confirm they’re being discriminated against. We see it, we feel it, we experience it in the flesh — yet several studies have demonstrated the existence of an LGBTQIA+ wage gap.  A survey carried out by YouGov in 2019, commissioned by LinkedIn and UK Black Pride, found that LGBTQIA+ people in the UK…

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Articles Drag drag kings LGBTQ+ Community Long Read News Original Originals

Drag kings are ready for their reigning era

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Get ready for our drag king takeover: a special digital feature photographed by Rebecca Thomas at London’s iconic Bistrotheque.   WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH PHOTOGRAPHY BY REBECCA THOMAS FASHION BY UMAR SARWAR CREATIVE DIRECTION BY JULIA SALOTTI FASHION ASSISTANCE BY PHEBE BARNUM-BOBB, CALLUM MCKENZIE AND CAMERON MCGIBBISONPHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANCE BY TYLER KENNET GROOMING BY SVEN BAYERBACH AT CAROL HAYES MANAGEMENT USING DRYBAR HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN Drag Kings haven’t always been represented as much as they should be. In online and IRL spaces, we regularly hear about the thriving careers  – and the cultural…

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Articles Beverly Glenn-Copeland Cover story Culture LGBTQ+ Community Long Reads Music News Trans community

In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s vocabulary, love is always a verb

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The legendary musician and synth pioneer combines personal, philosophical and natural worlds in his intricate compositions. He reflects on love, queer legacy and inspiring the next generation. WORDS BY CHRISTINE KAKAIRE PHOTOGRAPHY BY WYNNE NEILLY Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s biography up to 2020 reads like the epic journey of an artist-hero. Born in Philadelphia, United States, at the tail end of WWII to music-loving Quaker parents, he grew into a musically precocious child then came of age in 1960s Montreal, Canada, with a scholarship to study classical music at McGill University. Glenn-Copeland…

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Articles Chemsex HIV LGBTQ+ Community LGBTQIA+ venues Life Long Reads News NHS Originals

Attempts to criminalise chemsex users are making the queer scene less safe than ever

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GAY TIMES finds that up to 1000 people have died of possible chemsex-related harms in the past decade, so why are police attending callouts instead of ambulances? WORDS BY SOPHIE WILKINSON HEADER DESIGN BY JACK ROWE “Somebody overdoses, so they call for an ambulance, but the police turn up first,” Patriic Gayle says from across the table at the London HQ of the Gay Men’s Health Collective (GMHC), where he is Project Lead. We’re right next to stacks of condoms, lube, gloves, salt tablets and needles, neatly contained in cardboard…

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