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WHERE WERE YOU SURPRISED TO DISCOVER QUEER JOY?

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Why we need queer joy to carry us through

W hen the Scissor Sisters — one

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The Trump challenge

With Trump’s return to power, what’s the worstcase scenario for America’s LGBTQ+ community?

KYRAN THRAX

WORLD OF WONDER Kyran Thrax is a queen

Dear landlords, here’s what you need to know about LGBTQ+ renters

Generation Rent acts as a voice of private renters, campaigning to make homes safe, secure and affordable. Here, Ben Twomey, chief executive, and Tilly Smith, campaigns and partnerships officer, explain how discrimination in the rental market affects LGBTQ+ people

At the root of my indulgence is a desire for connection

I don’t vape, but I’ve started. It feels

When anger is a positive emotion

Experiencing rage for the first time over their poor treatment by an ex-boyfriend, Amrou is finally starting to value themself

SHOW. ME. THE. RECEIPTS.

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“In Nepal, most queer people live double lives”

Growing up in rural Nepal as a queer person, Aayam Poudel felt unable to live as his authentic self. Now, as a drag performer and LGBTQ+ tourism entrepreneur, he’s paving the way for acceptance in a society still grappling with change

Shilajit: the new super supplement?

Dr Ranj Singh on this traditional Ayurvedic medicine

Aston Martin Vanquish

It looks a million dollars (but costs less than half that) and — all credit to its maker — combines new tech with brutal, old-school power and glory

FULLY ENGAGED

After a string of buzzy roles in the decade’s biggest TV shows, Companion actor Lukas Gage is emerging as a thoroughly modern movie star. Here, the unassuming king of virality talks cock socks, coming out, and being an accidental spokesman for sex-positivity (“it’s so normal!”)

SISTER ACT II

As they prepare to light up our lives once more with a 20th-anniversary tour next year, the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, Babydaddy and Del Marquis discuss the upcoming shows, performing in anti-LGBTQ+ countries, and what a new album would sound like

PURRFECT BALANCE

Drag Race royalty Kitty Scott-Claus shares her journey of physical transformation, quitting drinking, body dysmorphia, and how prioritising fitness has changed her life

KWESI’S STORY: BEATEN, BLACKMAILED, BANISHED

When Kwesi visited his family in Ghana, the last thing he expected was to be lured into a honeytrap by a man, beaten by the police and blackmailed

Istanbul: ride in the ace of oppression

Meet the faces creating space for Istanbul’s queer community, as the increasingly hostile Turkish government makes LGBTQ+ lives harder by the day

“YOU’RE A NOTHING. YOU’RE NOT A BOY OR A GIRL ”

For much of her life, 63-year-old Yvonne Grey, who was born intersex, endured erasure and horrendous abuse by her family, who forced her to live as a man rather than as a woman. She also suffered shocking mistreatment by teachers and doctors. Here, as she continues her fight for intersex recognition and equal rights, she tells her story

MARCHING ON

As the City of West Hollywood turns 40, its just-younger Democrat mayor John Erickson reflects on the many trails that the proudly progressive and very LGBTQ+ city has blazed across the decades, and where it will still be defiantly heading in the wake of a decidedly unprogressive American election

PROFILE Alex Zeitz

As Virgin Voyages’ senior director of international operations, resilience and inclusion, Alex Zeitz has shaped an unforgettable customer experience

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Hearts and minds

Established in memory of Brianna Ghey by her mother, the mission of the charity Peace & Mind UK is to improve mental health for young people

Just the TICKET

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TOKYO Out East

From the sprawling cities of Tokyo and Osaka to the rural birthplace of Japan, Attitude travel editor Markus Bidaux explores the nation’s LGBTQ+ scene as it enters a new era of acceptance

OSAKA

OSAKA NIGHTS: Osaka Castle Drummer from the Wadaiko

Against the current

Back in July, Francis Highton rowed along the Zambezi River as part of a challenge to pass through all six African nations that the vital waterway flows through. Here, while navigating the crocodile and hippo-infested waters, he talks about finding queer representation in the unlikeliest of places

Somewhere Moldova the rainbow

Nicola Frachesen journeys to the overlooked European capital of Chișinău for Moldova Pride 2024 to discover a country — and community — slowly emerging from its past to carve a new queer identity

Rolling in the Riviera

We iron our best shirts and make for the glitz and glamour of a long weekend in Monte-Carlo, the mindblowing capital of Monaco and home of ‘Diamonds are Forever’ singer (and Attitude favourite) Shirley Bassey

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SIR RICHARD BRANSON

He’s explored the world (and space), built a global business empire from a single record shop, and lives on a Caribbean island 4,000 miles from the nearest Waitrose. But now, Virgin Group CEO Sir Richard Branson faces his biggest challenge to date: sitting in the hot seat for Attitude’s fabulosity test

LUKE EVANS

LIFE LESSONS

FEAST YOUR EYES

We embrace the vision of London’s new BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Gallery Café — a place to enjoy tasteful queer art with your coffee or cocktail

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Is there anything Sandi Toksvig can’t do? Presenter,

BEATS & PIECES

From being a fixture at Fabric in London to stirring the dance floor at the NYC Downlow in Glastonbury into a right tizz, the DJ and producer went global in 2016 when his track ‘Final Credits’ was crowned Mixmag Song of the Year, as well as being awarded BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix of the Year. Midland’s debut album, Fragments of Us — a gorgeous and reverent paean to gay clubs past and present — is out now.

JUKEBOX

Joseph Ryan-Hicks goes out-out as he revisits Grace Jones’s magnum opus, Nightclubbing, and explores the artist’s enduring legacy

B SIDES

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of iconic TLC album Crazysexycool, Attitude revisits the 90s American girl group’s best B-sides, demos and live tracks, from ‘Dirty Dirty’ to ‘His Story’

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