Our cover stars, Tegan and Sara have embraced a brand new, poppy sound, and Tegan tells us how their music was always evolving towards the mainstream, plus how being out and proud from the start of their careers wasn’t even in question. We profile Lana Wachowski, formerly one half of The Matrix Trilogy directors, the Wachowski Brothers and now Hollywood’s first out trans director, of the film Cloud Atlas. The latest RuPaul Drag Race winner, Sharon Needles, gets all excited on her first trip to Dublin, and we look back at the secret diaries of Roger Casement, which detailed his gay exploits in Brazil and brought about his execution in 1916 for treason.