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Editorial Director Megan Wallace US Editor-in-Chief Fran Tirado Fashion & Creative Director Umar Sarwar Senior Art Director Jack Rowe Entertainment Editor Sam Damshenas Features Editor Zoya Raza-Sheikh Designer Anisa Cleaver Creative Yosef Phelan Sen
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LOEWE Paula’s Ibiza Cosmic Eau De Toilette
The alchemising brains at LOEWE have caught the essence and elixir of summer, bottling it for instant pleasure with their new Cosmic scent. Fruity, woody and ambery, LOEWE Paula’s Ibiza Cosmic EDP joyously joins the existing LOEWE Paula’s Ibiza fragr
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Swarovski Venus Campaign
Aquatic excellence is the theme for Swarovski’s spring/summer campaign. The dazzling collection takes its cues from the myriad forms of the aquatic world and the underwater gardens which are home to extraordinary creatures and motifs such as shells,
GAY TIMES5 min gelesenGender Studies
Germany Just Passed A Landmark “Self-Determination” Law – But Does It Go Far Enough?
Since 1981, Germany’s trans, non-binary and intersex communities were forced to contend with the so-called ‘Transsexual Law’ (TSG for short) if they wanted to legally change their name and gender marker. Entailing a long, costly and often discriminat
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In Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Vocabulary, Love Is Always A Verb
Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s biography up to 2020 reads like the epic journey of an artist-hero. Born in Philadelphia, United States, at the tail end of WWII to music-loving Quaker parents, he grew into a musically precocious child then came of age in 19
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Punk Polymath Brontez Purnell On The Cult Of Masculinity, Trimming Weed And The ‘McDonaldisation’ Of Identity
Anyone who thinks that polymaths don't exist anymore probably hasn't met Brontez Purnell. The Oakland-based novelist, musician, dancer, filmmaker, zine maker — and overall 'pretty Black boy' extraordinaire (to quote his interview with Steve Lacy) — c
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Editor’s Letter
I’m writing this editor’s letter in the wake of last week’s publication of the Cass Review – an investigation into the UK’s youth gender care services. In the eyes of many, myself included, the review’s final recommendations undermine the right of yo
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Beyond Gentleman Jack: How The Sleepy English Town Of Calderdale Quietly Became A Queer Capital Of The North
Calderdale. Situated in the heart of West Yorkshire with picturesque rolling hills and laced with striking former textile mills, it’s a characterful town with a population to match. I spent the entirety of my adolescence and early adulthood calling H
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UGG & COLLINA STRADA
UGG has partnered up with New York fashion brand Collina Strada for a bold collection designed to add the perfect spring in your step this season. Building upon UGG’s comfortable and luxe foundations, Strada adds a heavy dose of character when remixi
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LOOP x Andrew Footit Earwear Collection
If you’re looking to add colour and charm to your trusted earplugs, Loop’s latest collaboration with artist Andrew Footit is the perfect ear candy. The collaboration is a marriage of art and functionality which sees the classic Loop earplugs updated
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Girl In Red Is Here, Queer And Ready For World Domination
“Maybe I killed someone!” Marie Ulven, aka girl in red, quips over Zoom, quoting her faux online apology video. It’s early afternoon in Oslo and the singer is comfortably sitting cross-legged in the kitchen of her sister’s minimalist apartment, weari
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What Should You Do With The Communal Sex Toy Box?
Throwing myself onto my bed and sobbing like Scarlett O'Hara has always been my post-break-up routine. I genuinely believe that this level of theatrics is a measured and proportionate response when your heart has been dashed against the rocks. I'm a
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How Ozempic Infiltrated The Queer Community – And Why Off-brand Diet Drugs Are Replacing It
“I don’t know a single gay guy who isn’t either on Ozempic, wishing they could be on Ozempic, or taking some weird shit and wishing it was Ozempic,” 33–year-old Malachi, an events manager from London, tells GAY TIMES. “I’ve been on it myself for a fe
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As Drugs Get Stronger, The Future Of Queer Nightlife Needs To Be Harm Reduction Informed
When Reece* first started falling in love with his now-partner over six years ago, he had never really taken drugs recreationally, apart from drinking alcohol and dabbling in weed on occasion – “the diet coke of drugs”. He even turned his nose up at
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Editorial Director Megan Wallace US Editor-in-Chief Fran Tirado Fashion & Creative Director Umar Sarwar Senior Art Director Jack Rowe Entertainment Editor Sam Damshenas Features Editor Zoya Raza-Sheikh Contributing Editor Jamie Windust Designer Anisa
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For Fletcher, love Isn't The Drug - it’s The Antidote
Cari Fletcher’s life is like a real-time representation of Alice Pieszecki’s infamous The L Word chart. So when she gleefully quizzes me to guess who photographed our GAY TIMES cover shoot, I’m not surprised by the answer: her YouTuber ex-girlfriend,
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Gotta Have It
Denim starting at €350/£299 Diesel and Lee Jeans, two leading denim giants and theoretical competitors, come together for a fusion collaboration like no other. The collection sees denim offcuts from both brands deconstructed, reworked and sewn togeth
GAY TIMES2 min gelesenGender Studies
Into The TRANIMAL KINGDOM With GEENA ROCERO
Because she grew up in the city, trailblazer Geena Rocero feels like she’s always trying to get back to her roots in a pre-colonial Philippines. Her desire to do so, she says, came to fruition in a tanning salon in San Francisco — you’ll have to read
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Editor’s Letter
In 2024, making a magazine issue all about ‘drugs’ seems paradoxical, because surely we’re all sober, right? Well, more people than ever seem to be swearing off the drink. According to statistics, around a third of 18 to 24-year olds don’t consume al
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“Y’all Know I’m Going Boysober For A Year”: How Queer Gen-Z Rebranded Celibacy
If you didn’t know, we’re in a “sex recession”. Off the back of a pandemic where lockdown restrictions effectively criminalised casual sex, few people would be surprised that attitudes towards relationships and intimacy have changed. Throughout the 2
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Attempts To Criminalise Chemsex Users Are Making The Queer Scene Less Safe Than Ever
“Somebody overdoses, so they call for an ambulance, but the police turn up first,” Patriic Gayle says from across the table at the London HQ of the Gay Men’s Health Collective (GMHC), where he is Project Lead. We’re right next to stacks of condoms, l
GAY TIMES7 min gelesenGender Studies
Trans And Non-binary Communities Are Finding Gender Autonomy Through Hormone Microdosing
Last month, when Kristen Stewart said she wants to do the “gayest fucking thing” and “grow a little moustache”, the response, at least in some corners of trans social media, was unambiguous. “Wishing Kristen Stewart a very start low dose testosterone
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The Neo- Noir Taking Aim At Femme Phobia In The Queer Community
In the opening scenes of erotic thriller FEMME, Jules is the target of an orchestrated homophobic attack in an East London off-licence store, a harrowing moment that leaves Jules bloody and traumatised. Months later, no longer dressed as his glam dra
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Gay Times
Editorial Director Megan Wallace US Editor-in-Chief Fran Tirado Fashion & Creative Director Umar Sarwar Senior Art Director Jack Rowe Entertainment Editor Sam Damshenas Features Editor Zoya Raza-Sheikh Contributing Editor Jamie Windust Designer Anisa
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Transmisogyny Has Deep Roots In Our Culture – It’s Time To Reckon With The Consequences
Once upon a time – around 50 years ago – the word “gay” included a lot more than men who are attracted to men, or women who are attracted to women. It was a word used by trans women and femmes to self-describe, a word that brought cis gays and trans
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Two Years On From The Women’s Health Strategy Announcements, Has Anything Actually Changed For Same-sex Couples?
When it comes to having children, the course of parenthood never ran smoothly. However, the path is remarkably more complex for samesex couples with uteruses. "We know how lucky we are," says Meg Write sitting with her wife Kayleigh Write, both 29, "
GAY TIMES6 min gelesenGender Studies
Ooh Girl, You Got Female: The Women Queens Proving That Drag Is For Everyone
In 2020, trans icon Kylie Sonique Love reentered the werk room on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6 after 11 years, making herstory with just five words: “Ooh girl, you got female.” The entrance line was of course a PC-friendly version of the controvers
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Editor’s Letter
March marks Women’s History Month and, in 2024, the celebration is as vital as ever. There’s no denying that plenty of progress has been made towards gender equality over the last few decades – but it feels like we’re on the precipice of a cultural b
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Zara Larsson The Birth Of Venus
When Zara Larsson calls herself "a little boss lady", there’s only one thing we could possibly quibble with. Really, there’s nothing "little" about everything the Swedish pop queen has achieved in her already substantial music career. At 26, Larsson
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For Raquel Willis, Pleasure Is Praxis
How useful it is, in the age of our phones — as our lives, our world, our education, our reality — that our intellectuals can traverse the screen with a bit of the ineffable, potent enough to slow us down. Raquel Willis does not compete for attention
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