Issue 508

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Amplifying Queer Voices.

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Editorial Director Lewis Corner Fashion Editor Umar Sarwar Junior Art Director Jack Rowe Associate Editor Sam Damshenas US Commissioning Editor Oly Innes Contributing Editor Reeta Loi Contributing Editor Jamie Windust Junior Writer Zoya Raza-Sheikh F
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Editor’s Letter
When I started my career as a journalist a decade ago, little did I expect one day to be reimagining a legacy LGBTQ+ print publication like GAY TIMES Magazine during a global pandemic. It’s been immensely challenging to say the least, but as the medi
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Jari Jones
Jari Jones unapologetically exudes activism, beauty and purpose. She’s more than just a model. She acts as a voice for plus-size women, a voice for trans women and an aspirational role model to the Black LGBTQ+ community across the world. “Black Live
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Gia Ford
Elton John. Frank Ocean. Freddie Mercury. Dusty Springfield. There’s a strong tradition of LGBTQ+ music acts creating stage personas and going on to change the cultural landscape. Adopting a new moniker allows you to create a whole new identity, or s
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Power of Pride
While last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion in New York City, it is 2020 that marks the 50th anniversary of the Pride movement. It was in 1970 that LGBTQ+ advocacy groups began marching in cities across the United States to
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Orville Peck
When the biggest night in music was in full swing back in February, Orville Peck found himself surrounded by legends and icons at the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Little did he expect that one of those titans of music would be making a beeline
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The Spectrum of Love
Tears hit my cheeks in short sharp burning fragments like shrapnel, and I reel from what feels like the shock of a blow to the head. The pain churns my insides, my fists clenching as I buckle over. Urgh. My period is coming. Perhaps I was being a PMS
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15 Mins With An Icon shania Twain
To this very day, Shania Twain holds the record for the biggest-selling album by a female artist ever with 1997’s Come On Over shifting more than 40 million units worldwide. But this year she’s celebrating the album that changed her life forever. Sha
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Walt Disco
If I told you there’s an exciting new band from Glasgow with a gender non-conforming singer whose vocal sounds like it should be on The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack, they’ve named their new EP after vintage gay porn, and have a song inspired
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Tinashe
Given that Tinashe has made some of the most effortlessly sensual music of the past decade, from her stunning club banger 2 On to her stellar feature on Britney Spears’ sweetly suggestive Slumber Party (Remix), it’s surprising to hear her say she’s “
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Pride vs Politics
As someone who owns a ‘Thou shalt never fuck a Tory’ t-shirt, I guess it’s fair to say that I’ve always been political. There are two nights a year (election permitting) where I’ll stay up to the early hours, and that’s election night, and the Eurovi
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House of Balmain
We all want to be legendary, don’t we? Well, it looks like Jamari Balmain, the father of the House of Balmain, has achieved just that. After appearing on and conquering HBO Max’s vibrant new ballroom-inspired reality competition series, Legendary, we
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Heidi N Closet
We may be in a global pandemic, but Heidi N Closet is feeling as soft, sssupple, blessed and highly favoured as ever. The self-described “dancing disco diva” sashayed away on the 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race earlier this year in sixth place, mis
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Ww 84
The year is 1984. Parts of Australia have just decriminalised homosexual acts between consenting adults. In the UK, Chris Smith comes out as the first openly gay member of the House of Commons. At the top of the charts, Bronski Beat are ruling the ai
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Mohsin Zaidi
“There were so many layers to coming out to my family, and I guess I didn’t want to forget it,” he says of his decision to put his journey onto paper. Originally intended for his eyes only, the documentation eventually became a fully-fledged memoir -
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Brendan Jordan
Prepare to feel ancient, because it’s been - wait for it - six years since Brendan Jordan danced his way to fame with his now-iconic stank face on the local news, and attracted praise from queeroes such as Lady Gaga and RuPaul, as well as Pandora Box
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Gigi Goode
Good morning campers. Hi, did you know that Gigi Goode is better than you? That was a reference to her opening line in the Droop commercial by the way, so don’t get mad. But statistically speaking… The 22-year-old performer, birth name Samuel Geggie,

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