Issue 504

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Amplifying Queer Voices.

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A Note From Us
February. An issue talking about love. Where’s the Devil Wears Prada ‘groundbreaking’ gif when you need it? Thing is, these pages are full of extraordinary people doing their bit to make the lives of queer people that little bit better. It’s fitting
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The Love List
(in cinemas 7 February) Academy Award-winner Margot Robbie returns as the fan-favourite sociopathic supervillain Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe’s eighth adventure. Set shortly after the events of Suicide Squad, which got a rough ride from c
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I Love Me
On these cold and dark winter mornings, the pleasure of a hot towel shave experience is just the type of incentive to get us out of the cosiness of our bed. The GilletteLabs Heated Razor offers just that. This high-tech device provides a sustained he
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Open Door: The Start Of A Campaign
On a dark February evening in 1954, a 17-year-old schoolboy met a man on the Exeter to Taunton express. Within weeks, that schoolboy was on trial. According to his prosecutor, Mr Kenneth Bain: ‘He got into conversation with a man in his compartment a
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Queer Love Songs
Music and romance have always been intertwined, from candlelit dinners to the most memorable love stories on the big screen – these moments just wouldn’t be the same without a heartfelt soundtrack. Historically, this kind of music has been targeted t
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Victoria Monet
If somehow you haven’t heard of Victoria Monét, you have almost certainly sang along to one of her songs. The American star has been cutting her teeth as one of the music industry’s most successful songwriters in recent years, with writing credits on
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Lauv
Lauv says he feels happier being an “open book”, and after we’ve chatted for an hour or so, I can’t imagine him any other way. During our wide-ranging conversation, the L.A.-based pop hero speaks plainly and unselfconsciously about his mental health
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Gia Woods
When singer-songwriter Gia Woods released her debut single Only A Girl back in 2015, it wasn’t just a big moment because it kick-started her career in the music industry; it also represented her coming out moment. “Soft touch, warm skin, nothing like
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Jillian Mercado
“My whole career path is essentially about representing us in the correct way, in the way that we see ourselves, whether it’s any form of media, TV, magazines, editorial, movies, I’m in,” Jillian Mercardo tells us minutes before her photoshoot, and j
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Queer Love Stories That Made History
While mainstream film is still lacking in LGBTQ representation, television has long been a vehicle for providing fully-realised queer characters and the relationships they share – in fact, a recent study from GLAAD found that the number of LGBTQ char
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Taliwhoah
Since we first spoke to Taliwhoah at the beginning of 2019, she’s released both an EP and her brilliant debut album Another Dimension, a record full of soulful pop and late-night R&B sounds. She’s also fully embraced her sexuality, singing of same-se
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Nicole Raquel Dennis
For anyone with an interest in theatre, Dear Evan Hansen has been impossible to ignore. Featuring songs composed by celebrity writing duo Pasek & Paul – responsible for the La La Land and The Greatest Showman soundtracks – the Broadway run swept the
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Nasty Cherry
Last year, Nasty Cherry made an explosive debut in the music industry with their very first single, Win, a power-pop rock anthem reminiscent of all-female supergroups such as The Donnas, HAIM and The Runaways. After a streak of excellent pop singles
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Sasha Velour
This March, Sasha Velour will be returning to the UK with their one-queen show, Smoke & Mirrors, a 90-minute extravaganza that combines drag, live theatre, visual art, magic, personal storytelling and a reenactment of the iconic So Emotional lip-sync
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Ricky King
Taylor Ross, the designer behind rising label Ricky King, has succeeded in crafting work that transcends the disposable nature of modern fashion, seamlessly blending the old and the new to create something altogether timeless. Perhaps the ultimate in
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The Game Is Finally Listening
December saw football’s Rainbow Laces campaign make it’s biggest splash yet. Never so visible, the movement’s iconic imagery stood front and centre at the heart of fixtures throughout the first week of December - a spine-tingling sight of gay symboli
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The Farm, Philippines
‘So are you having a nice day?’ asks the nice Filipino lady as she pumps me with a bucket of coffee while poking my belly. ‘Well, until now…’ I say. I’m at a health farm deep in the jungle two hours outside Manila and this is the first coffee I’ve ha
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Treehouse Hotel, London
You sometimes worry that they tear down buildings before they’ve got through their difficult phase. Buildings that start off modern, then start to look tired and then start to look wrong – like a pretty child that grew into an awkward teenager - but,
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1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Where is it? The name’s a dead giveaway but, if you’re still schtumped, it’s where prettyas Brooklyn Heights meets the so-hip-it-doesn’t-even-hurt-anymore DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). They’ve basically nabbed one of the best photo op
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Check In
This summer, how about we wrestle Mykonos back from the likes of Lindsay Lohan and give it its homojo back? Deal? And how about we start with the brand new and deliciously lovely Kalesma in Ornos Bay, about as close as you can get to town while being
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Aspen. The Ski Trip.
‘Don’t get hammered. You have a mountain to get down,’ I say to a fellow beginner skier – helmet-hair flattened just so, a pinch of red to the nose from those rays bouncing off the snow on snow on snow - as he pours himself a third red wine over lunc
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Fashion Richard Quinn
In terms of the SS20 collection you describe it as ‘a fashion sanctuary, where we can all come and celebrate’, and with world affairs becoming more unstable and darker, did this influence the opulence and romance of the collection? Yeah, I think from

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