Issue 507

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Amplifying Queer Voices.

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Editorial Director Lewis Corner Fashion Editor Umar Sarwar Design Manager Jack Pengelly Features Editor Daniel Megarry Entertainment Editor Sam Damshenas Commissioning Editor Oly Innes Cover Designer Willoughby Warner Photographers Forrest Leo Jakub
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A Note From Us.
It goes without saying that this isn’t the summer issue I thought we’d be putting out this year. When I first started speaking with Anne-Marie at the start of 2020 about shooting her first-ever GAY TIMES Magazine cover, it was initially for a very di
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The Love List.
(out 19 June) Are you ready to feel the fantasy? That’s what Jessie Ware promises with her highly anticipated fourth album, What’s Your Pleasure? Through a tracklist of slick grooves, infectious disco riffs, and beats destined to play well into the n
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Justin Tranter.
Known for: Lose You To Love Me by (Selena Gomez), Make Me Feel (Janelle Monae), Believer (Imagine Dragons), Sorry (Justin Bieber), Cake By The Ocean (DNCE), Slumber Party (Britney Spears), Make Me Like You (Gwen Stefani), Genetics (Meghan Trainor), H
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Why Apple’s 2020 iPad Pro has the MAGIC TOUCH.
It’s been a decade since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s boundary-pushing new device, simply known as the Apple iPad, to the world in January 2010. Tablet technology was still in its infancy, but the Cupertino company launched a product packed full of po
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How Lockdown Is Having A Disproportionate Impact On LGBTQ+ Youth.
The current global COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in ways we couldn’t have imagined. No country or community has escaped its impact. The social and economic consequences of this novel coronavirus spreading across the globe will be felt for y
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Elevate.
Music is the ultimate form of escapism. Very little else takes you into worlds of your own in the same way. For queer people and the LGBTQ+ community at large, it has offered sanctuary over the decades. Our idols and anthems have created communion am
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Inside The Gay Marriage Scam.
When writer, activist and musician, Reeta Loi, signed up to The Arranged Gay Marriage Bureau in early 2019, the journey she was about to embark on was one she’s wasn’t expecting. The Arranged Gay Marriage Bureau is based in India and promised to find
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Michael Cimino
When crowd-pleasing romcom Love, Simon hit cinema screens at the start of 2018, it was a massive moment not only for the LGBTQ+ community, but the entertainment industry as a whole. It was the first movie from a major Hollywood studio to focus on a g
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Legendary.
This summer, HBO are taking it to the Ballroom with their fierce new reality competition series Legendary, which features eight voguing houses as they compete in a series of “unbelievable” battles and showcase high fashion lewks on the runway in orde
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Anne-marie
It’s early March when Anne-Marie rocks up for her first GAY TIMES Magazine cover shoot, walking through the door of the studio in East London all smiles and looking relaxed in an oversized sweater. The shoot was originally planned for a later date, b
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Josef Salvat.
“It’s important that people continue to put music out. It’s vital actually,” says Josef Salvat. We’re chatting with the Aussie superstar over Zoom (because that’s the new normal now) about his second studio album, Modern Anxiety, his first full-lengt
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How Covid-19 Will Change Our Community Forever.
In March of this year, Matthew Walton, the chair of Pride in Hull, had to make the decision to cancel this year’s event. Like many event organisers, he had been monitoring the increasing threat of COVID-19 and he had hoped that it could be postponed.
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Meet The Queer Songwriters Behind Your Favourite Hits.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again - queer people are writing the best pop songs in the game right now. On the surface, it may feel as though the mainstream charts are dominated by straight singers telling straight stories. Aside from a han
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Happyness.
After being “chewed up and spat out”, almost “choked to death” and robbed of their music (literally) during their two-year stint in Northampton, Happyness made a triumphant return to the industry earlier this year with their third studio album, Float
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Mez
At just 21 years old, Los Angeles-based MEZ is quickly becoming one of the coolest DJs on the queer scene. He regularly plays underground parties, bringing his slew of musical influences to the decks, and was recently booked to open for music and fas
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Abisha.
After generating hype in the industry with dance-pop number Nothing Matters, alt-R&B jam All That and self-love anthem Love Like This, ABISHA finally quenched our thirst for new music earlier this year with the release of her debut EP. Released to ac
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Franz Sozny.
“Itend to work in isolation quite often with the creation of my art, so I’ve been able to cope with this well,” says Franz Sozny from his place in Los Angeles. During lockdown, the photographer, artist and musician conceptualised, shot and edited thi

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