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GAY TIMES world exclusive: Inside the wedding of the year with Tiara Skye and Shivani Dave
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You've heard of queerbaiting, but what about straightbaiting?
Jake Hall explores homonormative forces in the queer community, pointing to how they bypass opportunities for coalition-building
My Glastonbury boyfriend
In this personal essay, one writer explores the music festival as a liminal space where (seemingly) cis-het men feel free to explore queerness
The cis creators pretending to be trans online
PSA: Trans lives are not an experiment, and caricaturing transness has real-life consequences
Can polyamory’s biggest hater discover the benefits of non-monogamy?
In the name of journalism, writer Chanté Joseph goes on a journey to unpick her biases against polyamory, to unexpected results
It's time to break down the queer/straight binary
Heterosexuality scholar Asa Seresin – the author of a certain viral 2019 essay that acted as the big bang for heterofatalist online discourse – makes the case for a re-read of straight culture
Editor's Letter: Why we decided our latest issue should explore heterosexuality
Queer people are used to being the butt of the joke – let’s make it heteronormativity’s turn
Our womanhood is not an opinion to be debated: it is real
Following the UK Supreme Court ruling which deems the legal definition of 'woman' to be based on biological sex alone, P. Eldridge pens a rousing call to arms.
In the fight for trans rights, where are the gay men?
Organiser Eliel Cruz explores three simple ways that gay men can be better allies to the trans community this Trans Day of Visibility.
Trans invisibility: on my year of living without mirrors
Vic Parsons reflects on how a year without seeing their own reflection impacted how they relate to gender and identity.
From the Archive
From The Archive: Grace Jones
Amazing Grace Whilst awaiting a telephone call from the androgynous diva, Kris Kirk meditated on the career of Grace Jones
April 2025
“I'm Cortisa Star, watch out”
P. Eldridge chats with rising rap icon Cortisa Star about EMO, her fearless debut EP, and claiming space in the industry on her own terms.
April 2025
Lindsay Perryman’s ‘Tops’ places Black transmasculinity in the photographic canon
"It’s just very crucial to me that these images can be looked at by the next generation, and for people to be welcomed and not othered.”
April 2025
The detransitioning voices refusing to be culture war pawns
A vocal faction of people who have detransitioned are speaking about their fluid gender journeys while embracing trans rights.
April 2025
Editor's Letter: Together we have power, but we have to buckle in for a fight
Words by Megan Wallace When I was a child, you couldn’t keep me out of trees. Scaling trunks, then using my twig-like arms to grab branches, I’d pop my head above the leafy parapet and look up into the sky – grey (this was Dundee, mind) but limitless. I
April 2025
What is the trans unemployment gap – and what we can do about it?
Emily Cameron speaks to Lucia Blayke, founder of Transpire Talent, the UK’s first trans recruitment agency about her journey helping trans people and employers
April 2025
These trans people are going stealth to survive in Trump’s America
Just weeks into Trump’s new term, trans people in the US are being forced to make impossible decisions in order to persist through the next four years.
April 2025
The power, freedom and (occasional) silliness of trans chosen names
From consulting parents to new coinages, finding a name that aligns with your gender identity is a joy. Words by Jamie Windust For many trans and non-binary people, names hold a lot of importance. Our names, the words ascribed to us at birth, the very word we ultimately have inscribed
March 2025
Torrey Peters: “Maybe you f*ck other trans girls, maybe you don't, but you care and you love”
Torrey Peters on her new book 'Stag Dance', what T4T actually means and her abandoned TV adaptation with Lilly Wachowski.
March 2025
Editor's Letter: GAY TIMES’ March issue is all about work – just don’t call us boring
From the end of DEI to the struggles of the sex industry, we’re examining what it means to be queer in the workplace in 2025. Words by Megan Wallace The cost of living continues to soar and the housing crisis plods on, collectively robbing us of our dignity, making
March 2025
Everything is romantic: meet the agency battling erotic censorship online
Founded in 2019, Lover strives to create a diverse, supportive ecosystem where pleasure professionals can thrive. Words by Xoey Fourr Whether finding work as a dominatrix or producing independent pornography, when operating in or alongside the sex industries you will inevitably face struggles and push back – be it from the
March 2025
A new vanguard of Black executive directors are leading the LGBTQIA+ movement
Amid a tumultuous political and social landscape, the movement’s latest generation of leaders could reinvigorate the movement – but are the odds stacked against them? Words by Eliel Cruz In the lead-up to this recent Presidential Election, companies have done a 180 on their path to diversity, equity, and inclusion