Lifestyle News

AC Brand on Straight Men Visiting Gay Bars

Posted on 3 Aug 2025 in Lifestyle

The gay fashion brand Andrew Christian has some words of advice and encouragement for heterosexual cisgender fellows visiting a gay bar, perhaps with a gay friend, perhaps with a group of women who understand that queer spaces are safe for them. The full ten point guide has lots of good elements within, pointing out that pitfalls straight visitors sometimes make to our spaces, and teaching a little about etiquette and where that history comes from. They say "Let’s get one thing straight (pun absolutely intended): we love our straight allies.

Cat Happy not Catty!

Posted on 28 Jun 2025 in Lifestyle

A promotion currently running on the legendary community station Radio Caroline for the Cat Chat website says "Nothing beats the company of a cat to turn your house into a real home". And we know that pets make many LGBTQIA+ households complete. Cats just pip dogs to the post a

Sky Channels Go Rainbow for Pride

Posted on 26 Jun 2025 in Lifestyle

They may be owned to a large degree by Rupert Murdoch, a machiavellian publishing figure, but the Sky Channel range in the UK are regulated by OFCOM and also know that they have to appeal to mainstream tastes to attract advertising. Now, for the month of June, t

Photo Archive on Instagram Shows LGBT History

Posted on 16 Jun 2025 in Lifestyle

Gay arts magazime Gayety showcases the work of Mike Balaban, who is making his photo archive available on Instagram, carefully curated and with meaningful recording beneath each photo of its meaning. From muscle boys in gay clubs to people enjoying their holiday

BBC4 Gives Outing to Classic Gay Film

Posted on 15 Jun 2025 in Lifestyle

The television network BBC 4, one of the public service broadcasters serious channels, has retransmitted a classic piece of AIDS era storytelling. On 15th June, it broadcast The Lost Language of Cranes, a 1992 adaptation of gay novelist David Leavitt's 1986 novel, which was equa

Jun

More LGBT+ Australians than Ever in Big Boost

Gay Aussie magazine DNA reports that a new latitudinal study by researchers at Charles Darwin University has looked at survey results of household arrangements acr

Jun

London Fetish Legends Opening Doors

Fetish Daddy, a shop by and for the serious BDSM and fetish scenes in the capital, and situated in the heart of the fetish clubbing scene in Spelman Street, E1, is opening its door

May

Leading the Charge for Corporate Pride

In Bristol, supportive businesses are planning on their displays for Pride Month, which traditionally falls in June, as the month in which the Stonewall Riots of 1969

May

Queer Friendly Pub Reopens its Doors

In Bristol, an avante garde bar and coffee shop, which is also home to the studios of one our fellow community radio station, stuffed full with new, female and non-binary talent, has relaunched.

May

Stonewall Awards (US) Recipients Revealed

The Philadelphia gay newspaper PGN says "On June 1, the Philadelphia Gay News (PGN) will host the 2025 Stonewall Awards Brunch at the Arts Ballroom.