It’s no secret that in the gay community, there is a preoccupation with age. Much like the wider world, there is an obsession with remaining young, with youth itself being fetishized, prioritized, and in some cases coveted to an extreme. However, a preoccupation with youth isn’t a modern phenomenon. Just think back to your childhood, […]

“Eurovision’s acceptance of all things related to queer sexuality also reconfigures ideas surrounding sexual identity, particularly for the song contest’s international fans.”

“I do not want to live in a country where a friend could die due to an unintended pregnancy.”

Intimacy According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online intimacy can be defined as a close familiarity or friendship. In our own lives, we experience intimacy on a multitude of levels and scales, from friendships, social interactions and intimate relationships. It’s within these intimate relationships, sexual and spiritual, that intimacy can be felt almost exclusively and […]

I went to see Robin Campillo’s film 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) this weekend and was surprised by my ignorance. Set in the early 1990s, the film centres on Paris-based AIDS activist group ACT UP as they battle to bring awareness to the AIDS epidemic that is sweeping across France, and of course more widely […]

“Let’s create a school system where every young person has access to scientifically factual, up-to-date information about sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity, STI’s, safe sex, and consent.”

GCN’s latest Queer and Alternative podcast, Q+A is a super special one, featuring an in-depth interview with Sarah Schulman, activist extraordinaire and author of 11 novels, six non-fiction books, and two plays. Her 19th book, the novel Maggie Terry, will be published in September 2018 by The Feminist Press, and it’s influenced by her 19 years […]

Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii. Like a bonsai plant, Stacy is small but old. She has been making art for over 30 years. A cross-fertilization of theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work is as complex as it is accessible; humorous as it is challenging; visual as it is literate. It ranges […]

Music really is a powerful thing. It’s a form of expression, a creative outlet, and in the case of Italian singer-songwriter Andrea Di Giovanni, and expression of truth. Born into a strictly observant Roman Catholic family, Andrea grew up in Rome as the middle child between his older brother and younger sister. His mother, who […]

Who doesn’t love a place that describes itself as a ‘coffee roastery’? Conjures up all sorts of warm, sensual ideas, don’t you think? Well, Urbanity is a coffee roastery, along with an all-day casual eatery that focuses on interesting and great tasting food, which has recently begun opening in the evenings too. Coffee is roasted […]