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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELP THOSE IN NEED?

Editor in Chief’s Letter

When the drug GHB became a big problem for London’s

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As Land Rover pulls the wraps from the first all-new

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We’re only just getting started

GUILLOTINA MUNTER, Glasgow’s first lady of drag, spills

Redressing the balance

Business has a vital role to play in international LGBTQ equality, says Fabrice Houdart, human rights officer at the United Nations

The Rules

…for having a Sue-perb Christmas

Changing the record

Honesty is the best policy for London-based singer Lostchild, 27, as he charts his journey from drink and drug addiction to sobriety

A letter in solidarity with my friend’s coming out

ISRAELI AUTHOR YOAD SHIRAN IS CURRENTLY LIVING HIS

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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without All I Want For Christmas is You

big in a wig

Making history as the first drag king to win a televised

Bentley Flying Spur

Where “light on its feet” is a stellar compliment rather than a suggestion of effete…

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DIGITAL

The award-winning digital version of Attitude is the

It’s in his kiss

The 1975’s Matty Healy sealed his place as a true ally when he snogged a male fan during a concert in homophobic Dubai. He tells Thomas Stichbury about growing up surrounded by gay men, his drag granddad and standing against bigotry and hate

REBELS’ REBELS

EXTINCTION REBELLION NOW HAS AN LGBTQ AFFINITY MOVEMENT, THE RAINBOW REBELLION, DEMANDING OUR COMMUNITY BE HEARD IN THE BATTLE TO PROTECT THE PLANET

FIGHTING OUTDATED LAWS

Eswatini — formerly known as Swaziland — is ruled by an absolute monarchy, and is yet to repeal a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations. In his own words, activist Melusi Simelane tells us about life for LGBTQ people in the land-locked African country

What’s the story, Morning Gloria?

Lorraine Kelly, the queen of daytime TV and Attitude Honorary Gay Award-winner, is given the royal treatment as she drags up to celebrate her 60th birthday and 35 years of broadcasting

HOPE SURVIVES IN THE KILLING FIELDS OF CHECHNYA

Dan Glass visits Russia to discover how the government’s anti-LGBTQ policies are affecting the queer community

ALL RISE

Attitude talks to two LGBTQ activists to find how and why they started down that road, what they see as their mission and what their hopes are in the years ahead. Plus, four more campaigners tell us about their lives and work

STIGMA ATTACHED?

Do Gareth Thomas and Jonathan van Ness’s revelations about being HIV-positive amount to a watershed moment? Diagnosed across the decades since the condition was first given its dreaded name, five HIV activists tell Attitude if they think the condition still allows for discrimination

CHINA SYNDROME

Life in China is tough for LGBTQ people, despite some promising steps in the past 20 years. But brave people such as Ying Xin, the executive director of the LGBT Center in the capital city Beijing, are striving to give queer people even more freedoms and — hopefully — equality

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah (aka Lady Phyll)

Executive director of The Kaleidoscope Trust and co-founder and executive director of UK Black Pride

Just the TICKET

Aurora Expeditions has launched its first custom-made

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Lapping up the luxury on a ski trip to Bridget Jones location, Lech, in Austria, our own singleton, Thomas Stichbury, wouldn’t say no to finding his Mark Darcy on the slopes

Prison break

Will Stroude volunteers for a stretch in a Helsinki jail. Stripey suit not included…

HOT HOTEL

Six Senses Samui, on Thailand’s second largest island

ACTIVATE

If you’re part of the 20 per cent of adults in England

Bake up a storm

David Atherton, 36, did it for the gays when he won this year’s The Great British Bake Off. But perfect puds and fat-free fruitcakes are just the start – he talks fitness, growing up in an evangelical Christian family and health-care in Africa

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW

A ClassPass membership gives you access to the world’s largest fitness and wellness network, operating in almost 30 countries. Meet ClassPass partner Joelle D’Fontaine, who founded At Your Beat to prove that dance doesn’t discriminate

PUMP IT UP

Doing cardio won’t limit those allimportant gains from your weights routine – in fact, do it right and you’ll see better results

A PROBLEM SHARED

Got a problem? Dr Ranj Singh is here to offer his advice

FRIENDS AT COURT

Gay Lawyers raise a glass or two to celebrate 15 hard-fought years of battling for LGBTQ rights like yours — that’s 15 years and counting…

HERE, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Shake a tail feather at the stress of every-day life with a night to remember at the London Cabaret Club

BISI ALIMI

HIV/Aids and LGBTQ rights activist

THE WORD ON THE STREET

Who is the LGBTQ community’s ultimate ally?

Peter pan-t

Photo-book of a superstar who defined the gay eroticism of the Seventies and Eighties

Civil War servant

Greta Gerwig’s refreshing remake of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale proves any doubters wrong

Camp-o follower

James Barr dives into the unknown to bring you all the latest music news

HOMO FOMO

QUEER THEATRE, FESTIVALS, EXHIBITIONS AND MORE

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Blauer USA are a dab hand at mixing the contemporary

MERCURY RISING

American model Brandon Good turns up the heat with some smokin’ hot looks for spring

Peter Tatchell

Human rights campaigner