DIVA Magazine

DIVA Magazine | June 2017

She’s the self-confessed poster child of Pride, so who better to front this special issue than the one and only Lea DeLaria? In an exclusive interview with DIVA’s Roxy Bourdillon, the Orange Is The New Black star talks about Big Boo, bedding millennials, and reveals why she doesn’t go for other butches.
If you’re a modern girl, check out our digital issue and enjoy bonus content including extra special snaps from our LA photoshoot.
Also in this issue….
From terrified teen to published author: Lucy Sutcliffe’s book is changing lives – including hers
Lost On You: Carrie Lyell falls under singer songwriter LP’s spell
Body warriors: Queer people say bin your beauty standards
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah on the origins of UK Black Pride
Now you see me: Why having a boyfriend doesn’t make me straight
This Is Your Pride: 10 lez/bi women share their stories
DIVA does Dinah Shore
Let’s beat loneliness: we need to do more for our LGBT elders
PLUS Travel, family and much much more!

DIVA magazine is Europe’s best-selling and most authoritative lifestyle magazine for lesbian and bisexual women.

Our aim is simple – to bring you the latest trends and talent at the cutting edge of popular lesbian and bisexual culture. Each month you will find in-depth interviews, engaging features and photo shoots with some of the most influential and admired women from our community. On top of this we cram in page-after-page of news, opinion, entertainment and the arts, humour, travel and much more besides.

The digital edition packs an extra special punch - look out for exclusive photo galleries and behind-the-scenes videos that you won’t find anywhere else. Whether you prefer to read DIVA magazine on a smartphone, tablet or laptop you’ll never have to leave home without it. For best results, download when connected to a wifi hotspot.

With so much going on, it’s no surprise that DIVA magazine is THE trusted source of information for lesbian and bisexual women the world over.

As a subscriber you'll receive the following benefits:

A discount off the RRP of your magazine

Your magazine delivered to your device each month

You'll never miss an issue

You’re protected from price rises that may happen later in the year

You'll receive 12 issues during a 1 year DIVA Magazine magazine subscription.

Note: Digital editions do not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies.

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Our magazine apps run on all iPad and iPhone devices running iOS 10.0 or above, Android should be: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or above , Kindle Fire (Gen 3) or above, Windows 8 tablets, Windows 8.1 Phones, and PC and Macs with a html5 compatible browser.

However for iOS we recommend an iPad 2 (2nd gen)/iPhone 3 or better for performance and stability. Earlier models with lower processor and RAM specifications may experience slower page rendering and occasional app crashes which are outside of our control.

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7 Customer Reviews

Great magazine for queer women Reviewed June 3, 2017

I love this magazine. It's aimed at bisexual women as well as lesbians and I was pleased to find an article on pansexuality in one issue. As a pan woman I often feel like things with lesbian content isn't "for" me, but I don't find that with Diva. It has a wide range of articles focusing on all kinds of topics, often politics and feminism as well as pop culture and other lighter topics. To improve, it could do with more focus on trans women and non binary people.

I love DIVA Reviewed January 22, 2015

This is a great magazine. I love it.

...more diversity needed Reviewed December 18, 2014

It just upsets and annoys me that women of colour are constantly made to seem invisible in LGBT+ communities through the constant lack of representation in media outlets. We do exist and we deserve to be represented in lesbian magazines.

Not your ordinary women's magazine Reviewed August 23, 2013 SUBSCRIBER

Amazing how much they pack in every month... Politics, culture, lifestyle, fashion, scene, travel. Ordinary women get as much of a look-in as celebs, which makes a nice change. Varied content aimed at satisfying our diverse community. I'm bi and there's more "for me" in DIVA than any other magazine (straight or queer) that I can think of.

one of a kind Reviewed November 23, 2012

Diva is quite literally one of a kind, it's the only nationwide UK lesbian magazine. It's the 'sister publication' of GayTimes and is aimed at lesbians (and bisexual women) in The United Kingdom and also in Europe. It has a diverse range of articles from gardening tips to TV features, from clubbing guides to fashion features. Although Diva is fairly good many of its readers feel disgruntled that it appears to be aiming at too wide an audience.

Articles in this issue

Below is a selection of articles in DIVA Magazine June 2017.

A WORD FROM OUR PUBLISHER Welcome to our Pride issue, DIVA’s curtain-raiser to a summer of loud and proud celebrations of who we are and how far we’ve come as a community. I’m delighted that DIVA’s partnering with Birmingham ...

LETTERS WE CAN’T WAIT TO ADOPT I’ve just read Adele B’s request for more information about adoption (Letters, May) and it would be wonderful to see this. Three years ago I wrote to DIVA about the hurdl...

In case you missed it… MONTHLY NEWS ROUNDUP BROUGHT TO YOU BY OUTNEWS GLOBAL EDITOR ROXY BOURDILLON NEWS ROUND-UP GAY AND BI MEN TORTURED IN CHECHNYA Hundreds of men suspected of being gay or bisexual are being abduc...

VOICES MEDIAWATCH with Carrie Lyell PERSON OF THE MONTH ESTHER POUCHER Most of us are lucky to get one or two likes on our Facebook posts. But not so for A-level student Esther Poucher, wh...

PICK’N’MIX WORDS: ROXY BOURDILLON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 LIFE IS TOUGH BUT YOU ARE TOUGHER Gal pal going through hard times? Let her know you care....

A quickie with… MEET THE SINGERSONGWRITER WHO IS PROVING IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START SOMETHING NEW Jude Adams INTERVIEW DANIELLE MUSTARDE She released her first album at the age of 57 despite being ...

DIVA Magazine | June 2017

She’s the self-confessed poster child of Pride, so who better to front this special issue than the one and only Lea DeLaria? In an exclusive interview with DIVA’s Roxy Bourdillon, the Orange Is The New Black star talks about Big Boo, bedding millennials, and reveals why she doesn’t go for other butches.
If you’re a modern girl, check out our digital issue and enjoy bonus content including extra special snaps from our LA photoshoot.
Also in this issue….
From terrified teen to published author: Lucy Sutcliffe’s book is changing lives – including hers
Lost On You: Carrie Lyell falls under singer songwriter LP’s spell
Body warriors: Queer people say bin your beauty standards
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah on the origins of UK Black Pride
Now you see me: Why having a boyfriend doesn’t make me straight
This Is Your Pride: 10 lez/bi women share their stories
DIVA does Dinah Shore
Let’s beat loneliness: we need to do more for our LGBT elders
PLUS Travel, family and much much more!

As a subscriber you'll receive the following benefits:

A discount off the RRP of your magazine

Your magazine delivered to your door each month

You'll never miss an issue

You’re protected from price rises that may happen later in the year

Money-back guarantee

You'll receive 12 issues during a 1 year DIVA Magazine magazine print subscription.

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If you are concerned about a delivery, please contact the publisher of your subscription directly. Alternatively, you can contact us and we will provide you with the details for the publisher.

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DIVA Magazine | June 2017

She’s the self-confessed poster child of Pride, so who better to front this special issue than the one and only Lea DeLaria? In an exclusive interview with DIVA’s Roxy Bourdillon, the Orange Is The New Black star talks about Big Boo, bedding millennials, and reveals why she doesn’t go for other butches.
If you’re a modern girl, check out our digital issue and enjoy bonus content including extra special snaps from our LA photoshoot.
Also in this issue….
From terrified teen to published author: Lucy Sutcliffe’s book is changing lives – including hers
Lost On You: Carrie Lyell falls under singer songwriter LP’s spell
Body warriors: Queer people say bin your beauty standards
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah on the origins of UK Black Pride
Now you see me: Why having a boyfriend doesn’t make me straight
This Is Your Pride: 10 lez/bi women share their stories
DIVA does Dinah Shore
Let’s beat loneliness: we need to do more for our LGBT elders
PLUS Travel, family and much much more!

As a subscriber you'll receive the following benefits:

A discount off the RRP of your magazine

Your magazine delivered to your device each month

Your magazine delivered to your door each month

You'll never miss an issue

You’re protected from price rises that may happen later in the year

You'll receive 12 issues during a 1 year DIVA Magazine magazine subscription.

Note: Digital editions do not include the covermount items or supplements you would find with printed copies.

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However for iOS we recommend an iPad 2 (2nd gen)/iPhone 3 or better for performance and stability. Earlier models with lower processor and RAM specifications may experience slower page rendering and occasional app crashes which are outside of our control.

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Shipping is included in the price for all subscriptions, single issues, bookazines and merchandise products on Pocketmags. The prices you see are the prices you pay, we do not add additional shipping costs during the checkout. We deliver to the United Kingdom, Europe, United States of America and the Rest of the World.

Shipping Times

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The deliveries are handled by each of our publishing partners. The great thing about a subscription is that in most cases you will receive the issue before it goes on sale in the shops!

Your subscription is most likely to start with the next available issue. The delivery date is determined by the date that you placed your order and the print date of the next available issue.

If you are concerned about a delivery, please contact the publisher of your subscription directly. Alternatively, you can contact us and we will provide you with the details for the publisher.

For weekly publications please allow up to two to four weeks for your first delivery.

For monthly publications please allow up to four to six weeks for your first delivery, although some publishers may have longer lead times.

For bi-monthly publications please allow up to six to eight weeks for your first delivery.

For international delivery and Magazine from Abroad please allow up to ten to twelve weeks for your first delivery.

DIVA Magazine | June 2017

She’s the self-confessed poster child of Pride, so who better to front this special issue than the one and only Lea DeLaria? In an exclusive interview with DIVA’s Roxy Bourdillon, the Orange Is The New Black star talks about Big Boo, bedding millennials, and reveals why she doesn’t go for other butches.
If you’re a modern girl, check out our digital issue and enjoy bonus content including extra special snaps from our LA photoshoot.
Also in this issue….
From terrified teen to published author: Lucy Sutcliffe’s book is changing lives – including hers
Lost On You: Carrie Lyell falls under singer songwriter LP’s spell
Body warriors: Queer people say bin your beauty standards
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah on the origins of UK Black Pride
Now you see me: Why having a boyfriend doesn’t make me straight
This Is Your Pride: 10 lez/bi women share their stories
DIVA does Dinah Shore
Let’s beat loneliness: we need to do more for our LGBT elders
PLUS Travel, family and much much more!

As a subscriber you'll receive the following benefits:

A discount off the RRP of your magazine

Your magazine delivered to your door each month

You'll never miss an issue

You’re protected from price rises that may happen later in the year

Money-back guarantee

You'll receive 12 issues during a 1 year DIVA Magazine magazine print subscription.

Shipping Information

Shipping is included in the price for all subscriptions, single issues, bookazines and merchandise products on Pocketmags. The prices you see are the prices you pay, we do not add additional shipping costs during the checkout. We deliver to the United Kingdom, Europe, United States of America and the Rest of the World.

Shipping Times

All prices for magazine and some newspaper subscriptions listed on Pocketmags include free delivery.

The deliveries are handled by each of our publishing partners. The great thing about a subscription is that in most cases you will receive the issue before it goes on sale in the shops!

Your subscription is most likely to start with the next available issue. The delivery date is determined by the date that you placed your order and the print date of the next available issue.

If you are concerned about a delivery, please contact the publisher of your subscription directly. Alternatively, you can contact us and we will provide you with the details for the publisher.

For weekly publications please allow up to two to four weeks for your first delivery.

For monthly publications please allow up to four to six weeks for your first delivery, although some publishers may have longer lead times.

For bi-monthly publications please allow up to six to eight weeks for your first delivery.

For international delivery and Magazine from Abroad please allow up to ten to twelve weeks for your first delivery.