April 2024

GAY TIMES

Amplifying Queer Voices.

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Editorial Director Megan Wallace US Editor-in-Chief Fran Tirado Fashion & Creative Director Umar Sarwar Senior Art Director Jack Rowe Entertainment Editor Sam Damshenas Features Editor Zoya Raza-Sheikh Contributing Editor Jamie Windust Designer Anisa
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Editor’s Letter
In 2024, making a magazine issue all about ‘drugs’ seems paradoxical, because surely we’re all sober, right? Well, more people than ever seem to be swearing off the drink. According to statistics, around a third of 18 to 24-year olds don’t consume al
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Gotta Have It
Denim starting at €350/£299 Diesel and Lee Jeans, two leading denim giants and theoretical competitors, come together for a fusion collaboration like no other. The collection sees denim offcuts from both brands deconstructed, reworked and sewn togeth
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For Fletcher, love Isn't The Drug - it’s The Antidote
Cari Fletcher’s life is like a real-time representation of Alice Pieszecki’s infamous The L Word chart. So when she gleefully quizzes me to guess who photographed our GAY TIMES cover shoot, I’m not surprised by the answer: her YouTuber ex-girlfriend,
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Trans And Non-binary Communities Are Finding Gender Autonomy Through Hormone Microdosing
Last month, when Kristen Stewart said she wants to do the “gayest fucking thing” and “grow a little moustache”, the response, at least in some corners of trans social media, was unambiguous. “Wishing Kristen Stewart a very start low dose testosterone
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As Drugs Get Stronger, The Future Of Queer Nightlife Needs To Be Harm Reduction Informed
When Reece* first started falling in love with his now-partner over six years ago, he had never really taken drugs recreationally, apart from drinking alcohol and dabbling in weed on occasion – “the diet coke of drugs”. He even turned his nose up at
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How Ozempic Infiltrated The Queer Community – And Why Off-brand Diet Drugs Are Replacing It
“I don’t know a single gay guy who isn’t either on Ozempic, wishing they could be on Ozempic, or taking some weird shit and wishing it was Ozempic,” 33–year-old Malachi, an events manager from London, tells GAY TIMES. “I’ve been on it myself for a fe
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“Y’all Know I’m Going Boysober For A Year”: How Queer Gen-Z Rebranded Celibacy
If you didn’t know, we’re in a “sex recession”. Off the back of a pandemic where lockdown restrictions effectively criminalised casual sex, few people would be surprised that attitudes towards relationships and intimacy have changed. Throughout the 2
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Attempts To Criminalise Chemsex Users Are Making The Queer Scene Less Safe Than Ever
“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, l
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Into The TRANIMAL KINGDOM With GEENA ROCERO
Because she grew up in the city, trailblazer Geena Rocero feels like she’s always trying to get back to her roots in a pre-colonial Philippines. Her desire to do so, she says, came to fruition in a tanning salon in San Francisco — you’ll have to read

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