queer culture

A hug from her best friend at the age of 64 made Liz Hilliard realise that she was not – as she had always believed – straight.

Point of Pride's HRT Access Fund provides 12 months of free medical care for trans folks seeking gender-affirming hormone therapy (HRT).

Police and government workers clashed in Daegu, South Korea as the organisers of an annual Pride festival attempted to set up.

The Catholic Church and other faiths have celebrated many whom historians and scholars consider queer.

A new report from LGBTQ+ rights organisation GLAAD has found all major social media platforms are failing to protect queer users.

Here are 15 films featuring queer women who get their fairytale ending.

Lauri Hussar, the newly elected president of Estonia, has suggested a change in law could be introduced within weeks.

I was one of the co-founders of r/BisexualMen on Reddit and I write a series called Sex Ed for Bi Guys. I don't think there's a point in creating a minuscule magazine for us, but it'd be nice to be able to follow each other on here!

Sport as a social space is notoriously harsh and uninviting towards the queer community. Gender and heteronormativity, particularly in male-dominated sports, is the backbone upon which many of these cultures are built....

Pride has always been a protest. But that doesn't mean it can't also be funny

From pop sensations to pensioners, models to movie stars, 17 LGBTQ+ pioneers, aged 19 to 90, share stories of style, self-discovery and expression in British Vogue’s July 2023 issue.

“There is – despite the chip, chip, chip of the news cycle, the screaming indignities of social media, the disturbing ineptitude in scores of our public officials – a great deal of joy still to be found in the world. I promise.”

We all know LGBTQ+ history didn’t start with the gay liberation movement in the ’60s and ’70s. And while certain politicians would rather erase us from text books, queer folks have been around since the dawn of civilization....

Research has found women over the age of 65 are amongst the most sexually fluid groups in the UK, challenging long-held ideas about fluidity.

When the feelgood movie made him an Oscar-nominated star, the strain of hiding who he was almost forced him to quit acting. He explains how opening up about being gay, then trans, saved his life

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — For years, Orden David was persecuted in his native Antigua and Barbuda — a frequent complaint by many LGBTQ people who fear for their safety across the conservative and mostly Christian Caribbean, where anti-gay hostility is widespread.

Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical and J. Harrison Ghee Best Lead Actor....

Garth Brooks’ new Nashville bar and honky-tonk Friends in Low Places is opening this summer — and the country star is sharing that everyone is welcome… except assholes....

The biggest Pride parade in New England has returned to Boston for the first time since 2019. Organizers say this year's focus was less on corporate backing and more on social justice and inclusion. The hiatus was due only in part to COVID-19 restrictions. The organization that used to run the event dissolved in 2021 amid...

A national chain known for its food and aesthetic that drips in southern comfort is the next business facing backlash over its support of Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community. The Texas Family Project called on supporters to boycott Cracker Barrel on Thursday, June 8, stating "a once family friendly establishment has caved to...

This week, a judge temporarily blocked Florida's ban on gender-affirming care for kids. It's seen as a win for trans rights but a chilling effect has left some providers and families confused on care.

The Los Angeles county district attorney's office has left Twitter due to barrage of what the office called vicious homophobic attacks. The account that went by the handle @LADAOffice no longer exists on Twitter. The office said Thursday that comments on Twitter ranged from homophobic and transphobic slurs to sexually explicit...

On Friday (9 June), the Nordic country joined Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Germany, France, Malta and New Zealand in banning harmful conversion practices....

Alan Turing was a gay war hero and mathematician who broke the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in WWII, but his story ended in tragedy.

Remembering Anita Cornwell, the fearless pioneer who shattered barriers as a Black lesbian writer, activist, and feminist. Her legacy lives on in her groundbreaking work.