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Luke Evans – My Unexpected Journey book review: A sensitive soul, a deep thinker and a great wit
He’s known as the Hollywood heart-throb with the incredible voice, but how did the smalltown boy make it to the big time?
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Festival of Queer Literature in Spanish in London returns for its fourth year
"We need more than A Room of One's Own" said Festival Director Jorge Gárriz, addressing an assembly of LGBTQ writers, poets and literature lovers at last night's launch at the Spanish Embassy in London
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‘Alan Hollinghurst is one of our best living writers – the LGBTQ+ community has much to thank him for’
To celebrate the release of the author's new novel Our Evenings, Jack Cullen casts an eye across his previous five, looking at the significance of this daring, accomplished LGBTQ+ author
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Dylan Mulvaney announces debut book Paper Doll: ‘It shows how messy my life is’
The book will be published in March 2025
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Author Dean Atta on his favourite book of the year: ‘It made me reflect on the inner child and how formative our youth is’
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Heartstopper among titles targeted as 53% of school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, study says
"I feel frightened, intimidated," one school librarian has said on her fear of stocking LGBTQ+ books
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Two men enjoy intimate moment in this extract from new queer Shakespeare book
Dr. Will Tosh is the Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe and author of Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
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Andrew Scott’s audio erotica series has fans feeling things: ‘I could take off into space’
We can't imagine what it is about this combination that has got people excited
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Mel B on the Spice Girls and her sexuality: ‘I fell in love with a woman and was with her for 5 years’
Exclusive: "I didn’t start off my sexual journey going, I’m this, I’m that, I’m bisexual,'" says Scary Spice as she talks rejecting labels, her upcoming wedding and the gay friend who helped her survive abuse
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Meet writer, filmmaker and photographer Kevin Morosky, who wants queer communities to get creative
Exclusive: "Does the pressure [of success] get to me? No, not at all. I'm a Black gay man who grew up poor in Croydon. I’ve survived worse!’
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Marc Thompson remembers ‘taking control’ with Black gay nightlife in video extract
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye is available now
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O Novo Rio: Queer youth culture in the Brazilian supercity in 12 pictures
Shoot locations of William Rice's photography zine O NOVO RIO include Ipanema Beach and what is claimed to be the biggest queer club in South America
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‘Everyone in my village knows I’m gay except my parents’: Slum Boy’s Juano Diaz on the teen love affair that inspired this artwork
In this exclusive extract from his memoir, Juano recalls growing up in a strict Catholic and Romany Gypsy community in rural Scotland - and how one local boy changed his life
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Scott Jericho author William Hussey on the books that shaped his life
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‘Dinner, dessert, then a visit to his dungeon’: The Old Gays share their hilarious guide to sex
Exclusive: In this extract from their new book, the TikTok stars reveal all about getting down in your 60s, 70s and beyond
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Ncuti Gatwa, Theo James, and Helena Bonham-Carter to lead Audible’s David Copperfield
Produced by Sam Mendes, the adaptation will bring Dickens' London to life
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‘Artists are here to disturb the peace’: Remembering James Baldwin’s extraordinary wit and wisdom, in 12 inspiring quotes
The celebrated author of classics like If Beale Street Could Talk and Giovanni's Room died in 1987 at the age of 63
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Check out these peachy images from the upcoming Museum Bums book
Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art by Mark Small and Jack Shoulder is being published by Chronicle Books.
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Heartstopper: Bookstore in Hungary fined for publicly displaying graphic novel
An anti-LGBTQ law in the country prohibits depictions of homosexuality to minors - and the book was "not distributed in closed packaging," said a government rep
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‘Why is it so many witches appeal so strongly to queer audiences?’
"I feel, as a trans woman, that there’s a very real witch-hunt in progress in 2023. It seems there is little trans people won’t be accused of online and in the media," writes Juno Dawson.