#TEAMDIVA REVEALS THEIR QUEEROES FOR LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH

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Editor’s letter

People often tell me I was born in

A letter from our publisher

Welcome to DIVA’s LGBT+ History Month issue where

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Get the look: Queer showbiz legend

GLADYS BENTLEY AND BILLIE HOLIDAY WEREN’T JUST GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIANS, THEY ALSO SERVED LOOKS THAT COULD KILL.

Baby, if I had a time machine

NIC CROSARA gets a taste for the Time Warp

Speak up against conversion practices

JAYNE OZANNE calls on us all to support the Ban Conversion Therapy campaign

Just a little bit obsessed…

CAIT FINDLAY asks, am I obsessed with being queer, or is the world not quite designed for me?

My Arab queerness

NISREEN FOX shares the journey to accepting all parts of their identity

Queen of the protest

WE ARE LIVING THROUGH A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN LGBTQI HISTORY. THANKFULLY, WE HAVE TRAILBLAZING ACTIVIST LADY PHYLL FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS AND INSPIRING US TO MAKE CHANGE

AND JUST LIKE THAT

SARA RAMIREZ TALKS QUEER CHEMISTRY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MAKING TV HISTORY AS SEX AND THE CITY’S FIRST NON-BINARY CHARACTER, CHE DIAZ

Disabled–dating–denied

POTENTIAL DATES SEE DISABILITY FIRST, PERSON SECOND, WRITES DANDY DILLON

Non-monogamy and me

HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC LED US TO RETHINK MONOGAMY AND OUR RELATIONSHIPS?

Checking in with the polyam community

HERE’S WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT ALL THINGS NON-MONOGAMY AND LOCKDOWN

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A NON-BINARY LESBIAN?

LET’S EMBRACE THE CHANGING AND FLUID NATURE OF LESBIAN IDENTITIES

Start YOUR ENGINES...

MICHELLE VISAGE TALKS RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE SEASON 14, HARLEM BALLROOM CULTURE AND HER PLASTIC SURGERY JOURNEY

SCREEN

LA MIF Directed by Fred Baillif In French,

The legacy of Anne Lister

FILMMAKER AND YORK UNIVERSITY STUDENT LIV WOODWARD SHARES HER DIARY OF MAKING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT “THE FIRST MODERN LESBIAN”

Queer Black joy for your ears

SETTLE DOWN WITH NANA DUNCAN AND ROSE FRIMPONG, CREATORS OF THE TWO TWOS PODCAST

MUSIC

PICK OF THE MONTH MIXTAPE FKA TWIGS CAPRISONGS

LGBTQI HISTORICAL ROMANCES

Escape into these books and remind yourself that

BOOKS

BOOK OF THE MONTH YOUNG ADULT FICTION BITTER

Her Last Request

MARI HANNAH, THE AUTHOR BEHIND THE DCI KATE DANIELS CRIME SERIES TALKS ABOUT HER LATEST NOVEL

You and your partner need to talk about financial security

IS IT TIME TO STOP TIPTOEING AROUND YOUR FINANCES? 

RAINBOW FAMILY

PHOTO ELLIE KURTZ There was a lot I

Dear Ali ...

THIS MONTH, ALI ADVISES ABOUT NEW RELATIONSHIPS

I’m a lesbian who used to fake orgasms: I felt like a fraud

ARE ORGASMS REALLY THE PINNACLE OF SEX?

What bisexuality taught me about sex

ELEANOR NOYCE SHARES HER JOURNEY AND THE LESSONS SHE’S LEARNED ALONG THE WAY

SEXY BITS

TOY STARSI Created by gender-inclusive company Cute Little

My secret sex diary

FEE REVEALS THEIR JOURNEY TO SEX TOY HEAVEN AS TOLD TO ELEANOR NOYCE