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Gay Star News FEATURE
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The Year In Queer: The Best LGBTQ+ Films Of 2024
Buddy comedies, documentaries and musicals. Queerness reached into every genre of film in 2024.
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Cherry Cherry Lady! These Are Predicted To Be 2025’s Biggest Aesthetic Trends
Good news for anyone that got fish tats during the great tinned sardine trend of 2023.
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The Year In Queer: The Best LGBTQ+ Music Moments Of 2024
From all Brat green everything to the unstoppable rise of a Midwestern princess, it’s been an incredible year for Queer music fans and artists.
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Why The World Can’t Stop Looking At Chappell Roan
Britney, Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette – the world always gawps at a princess that’s struggling. Can a drag queen from the midwest break that cycle?
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London Is A Grey Brat Afterparty Ashtray Right Now, So Let’s Escape To Queer Tourist Friendly Mauritius
There may be no permanent Gay bars on the island, but there are many colourful birds and lizards.
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Why The World Can’t Stop Looking At Chappell Roan
Britney, Princess Diana, Marie Antoinette – the world always gawps at a princess that’s struggling. Can a drag queen from the midwest break that cycle?
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Why Are Supermarkets Competing To Be Camp Now?
There are only three kinds of people who share a supermarket advert. 1) Racists who call non-white people round a dinner table “woke nonsense”. 2) People who cry at John Lewis Christmas adverts. 3). Twitter Gays.
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Five Beautiful Confessions From Bisexual Icon Gillian Anderson’s New Book On Female Desire
“I’ve wanted to smell her skin for so long.”
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Trump Is The 47th American President. LGBTQ+ And Women’s Rights Are At Risk.
Donald Trump has won the American presidency for a second time. Here’s how Queer women celebrities have responded.
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Shorts
Sculptor Nick Hornby opens up about his “nuclear midlife crisis”
Agony Guncles
Mighty Hoopla? I hardly know her! Ella Vaday has more on the latest queer stories
Drag News
What IS the most Nonbinary name you can think of?
Vox Pops
We chat with the cast of BBC3’s I Kissed a Girl, meet the iconic Demi
The One That Got Away
Meet living sculpture and activist Daniel Lismore!
Our Friends And Neighbours
Sub and Dom in Da Bungalow
Agony Guncles
IRELAND
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Spill the LGBTea: Róisín Ní Haicéid of Banríon
Let’s spill the LGBTea with Róisín Ní Haicéid, from the Dublin based indie-rock quartet, banríon.
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How Camp Are The Irish Festival Line-Ups?
You can expect to see plenty of tents this festival season but just how camp are our line-ups in Ireland this summer?
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What It Means To Celebrate Pride in Ireland
My biggest blunder, aside from my Englishness, was only getting one photo from that night…
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How Camp Are The Irish Festival Line-Ups?
You can expect to see plenty of tents this festival season but just how camp are our line-ups in Ireland this summer?
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What It Means To Celebrate Pride in Ireland
My biggest blunder, aside from my Englishness, was only getting one photo from that night…
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Spill the LGBTea: Róisín Ní Haicéid of Banríon
Let’s spill the LGBTea with Róisín Ní Haicéid, from the Dublin based indie-rock quartet, banríon.
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Pride In Ireland 2024: When Is Pride In Your County?
These are the events for everyone up and down the country looking to celebrate Pride this year.
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Videos
The Pitch: Jake Williamson
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Our Friends And Neighbours!
Gay footballer Zander Murray’s first interview since retiring – toxic masculinity, allyship and The Sims!
Our Friends and Neighbours!
Digital Hacktivist Kit Bacon
Crystal Interview
‘The Tories Have Waged War On The LGBTQ+ Community’
This is Queer Love
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Celebrating Otamere Guobadia’s poetry debut collection
This Is… Queer Love
Let’s go to The Divine with Barbs
Let’s Go Outside!
Meet designer and illustrator Mundo Moo
Our Friends And Neighbours!
“My promise to [the LGBTQ+] community is we’re going to carry on supporting you.”
Mayor Sadiq Khan
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Mid-Century Modern Men: What Life Was Like For London’s Post-War Gay Community
“When you joined a guard’s regiment, you were often told the places to go if you wanted to pick up men.”
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‘I Adopted Two Children With My Partner And It Was The Best Thing We Ever Did’
As the You Can Adopt campaign reveals an “unprecedented decline” in the number of people coming forward to adopt, father of two Steven opens up about what it has been like to adopt with his partner Robbie, and why it has been so worthwhile.
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The Thing Making Pop Fun Again? The Female Gaze, And Gays
A new era of revealing, horny, femme-fronted pop is bringing joy back to the music industry.
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UK Black Pride: 10 Euphoric Images From This Year’s Celebration
Tens of thousands of people took part in this year’s UK Black Pride celebration.
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“This Affects Real People”: Community Figures Call On Labour To End Tory’s Puberty Blocker Ban
Munroe Bergdorf, Nadia Whittome and Paris Lees are among those condemning Wes Streeting for moving to make the Tory’s puberty blocker ban permanent.
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The Queer Cabaret Paradise Hidden In The English Countryside
The House Of Sublime opens its tented doors just once a year at Wilderness Festival. It’s now a countryside haven for club kids.
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Looking For Now: The Queer Longing At The Heart Of Designer Ashish Gupta’s New Photography Book
“I have tried to capture the vulnerability that accompanies lust and sexual objectification.”
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The Hot Wing King: A Love Story About Gay Identity, Race, Fatherhood and Chicken
Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a chicken wing competition, now showing at London’s National Theatre, is a heartfelt exploration of Black Queer masculinity.
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Why Do Bisexuals Like Having Multiple Beverages At Once?
Is there any science to the stereotype that Bisexuals like to have three drinks in front of them at all times?
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Gay Furry Hacker Group Announces It’s Disbanding Due To FBI Concerns
In a post on their Telegram channel, SiegedSec wrote: “this group is my beloved creation, i will always support and love our group”
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Gender Transcending Non-Binary Icons From History To Today
Non-Binary people have always existed and always will.
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Labour Urged To Protect LGBTQ+ People After Landslide Election Victory
Following the Labour Party’s landslide victory in last week’s general election, several prominent LGBTQ+ people are calling on the government to protect the community.
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Another Drag Queen Is Suing Laurence Fox
Nicky Doll is the second ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ alum to take legal action against Laurence Fox over comments he made on social media.
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Pride In London 2024: See Pictures From This Year’s Parade
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of the capital to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
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Before Stonewall: The Gay Disobedients of History
The history of Queer rebellion before Stonewall involves donuts and an 18th Century ally called Mother Clap.
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Putting The Camp In Classical: The Story Of The UK’s First “Classical Pride” Music Festival
“A drag show with classical music… I don’t know how you avoid the campness!”
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The End of The L Word: How Lesbians Are Reclaiming The Word ‘Lesbian’
“The word ‘Lesbian’, I think especially to other women, it feels like something I’m really proud to say.”
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Meditations On Love At The Photographers’ Gallery
A literal safe space has opened at The Photographers’ Gallery – Meditations on Love.
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