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Sheffield-based journalist, copywriter and author of 'The Art of Drag', published by NoBrow Press in September 2020.
Kay and Celine have been in love for 32 years, but their romance was almost soured in its infancy by a shit jumper. "I can still see it," laughs Kay, describing the "really hairy" jumper that Celine wore on one of their early dates. "Well," exclaims Celine, feigning indignation.
In August 2018, Karin Dreijer burned out. The artist known as Fever Ray was in the midst of touring their sex-fuelled 2017 album Plunge, a statement of queer joy, sex and rebellion in a world that still so often stigmatises and criminalises queerness.
Amid an onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, queer youth are facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. Kaydee was 22 years old and contemplating suicide when she started hormone therapy in April 2021. The gender-affirming care has been "lifesaving," she says, but now the Minnesota native spends her days panicking that this access will be taken away.
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened - 1997. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and we're here to relive every minute of it. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air.
It was over a decade ago that a box of Polaroid photos was discovered by Robert Swope, an inquisitive furniture dealer perusing the flea markets of Manhattan. Captured in these images, which have since been collated into a book of the same name published in 2005, was a group of lively, captivating women, some of whom identified as transgender; others simply identified as transvestites or cross-dressers.
On International Women's Day 2020, sex workers and allies gathered in Soho to protest for decriminalisation. In today's world of corporate feminism and #girlboss tees, it's easy to lose sight of what International Women's Day actually represents. That was not the case in Soho on Sunday, where the streets were filled with pissed-off sex workers on strike.
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened - 1997. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and we're here to relive every minute of it. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air.
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened - 1997. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and we're here to relive every minute of it. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air.
The U.S. transgender population-historically a difficult number to pin down-has garnered increasing attention in recent years, both in the headlines and from researchers. According to a 2016 study by UCLA's Williams Institute, one of the most comprehensive attempts to measure this population to date, roughly 1.4 million Americans identify as transgender.
When Lucinda Graham enrolled on her Fashion, Textile, Art & Design course, she already had a fraught relationship with her body. "I had a complicated past with eating disorders and compulsive exercising," the 23-year-old recalls. "Earlier in the course, I often felt out of place as a 5"9, size 16 woman - especially as all the female mannequins resembled prepubescent teens."
Protesters in Warsaw. Photo by Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On Friday, August 7th in Warsaw, Avtomat - a queer party promoter, DJ and activist - was one of several protestors defending a statue draped in a rainbow flag.
This week's FRONTPAGE finds us chatting with one of Hollywood's most promising young stars - the supremely talented Justice Smith, an artist who finds acting akin to "oxygen." Somewhere in Los Angeles, Justice Smith is laying in bed. The 26-year-old actor has his camera off, a decision he made for press interviews at some point in the pandemic.