This month features an in-depth interview with trio Years & Years to talk about the band's queer following thanks to out and proud frontman Olly Alexander; We look at the risk-taking world of chemsex, the weekend long drug fuelled parties that often involve unsafe sex and needle sharing; We profile the LGBT candidates of the approaching 2016 elections; In the first of a new series, queer activist Tareq Zeidan talks about lives of the LGBTs in his native Lebanon here homosexual acts are still considered a criminal offence.

Plus opinion pieces galore and LGBT entertainment news, all inside this month's GCN!