WELCOME

SHARE YOUR DIVA STORIES

YOUR SHOUT

I am what you might call an “old skool scene queen”.

VOICES

Props to the Metro, which this month has appointed

PICK’N’MIX

Smells divine. Blissful bath times await… olverum.com

COMIC

“When queer love is depicted in mainstream media it

Sharice Davids

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES. SOME WEAR SUITS TO CONGRESS

SHE SAID

NOTABLE QUOTABLES SELECTED

STYLE

OWNER OF THE GAY AGENDA, POPPY DADD, ON BEING A BODY POSITIVE MODEL AND A PROUD FEMININE LESBIAN

If you can’t love yourself…

OLIVIA JONES IS EMBARKING ON A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH HERSELF

A love letter to my true soulmates

ROXY BOURDILLON CELEBRATES THE POWER OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP THIS GALENTINE’S DAY

Saving all my love for me

REETA LOI ON WHAT IT MEANS TO REALLY LOVE OURSELVES

Our own domestic bliss

ELEANOR MARGOLIS FACES THE MUSIC OF LOVE

What is love? (Baby don’t hurt me)

JORDAN GRAY ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE LIFE’S LEAST DESCRIBABLE PHENOMENON

Love me as I am

VALENTINO VECCHIETTI WANTS TO BE LOVED FOR HER DIFFERENCES, NOT DESPITE THEM

Only human

CARRIE LYELL CHATS TO SINGER-SONGWRITER DODIE CLARK ABOUT FEELINGS, FAME AND FORGIVENESS

If walls could talk…

OUR SURVEY RESULTS REVEAL EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT QUEER WOMEN’S LOVE LIVES, BUT WERE TOO POLITE TO ASK…

How we met

FROM A UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE TO A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION, DIVA READERS REVEAL HOW THEY MET THEIR OTHER HALF

I knew I loved you before I met you

LESBIAN FICTION AUTHOR KIKI ARCHER DIGS OUT HER TEENAGE DIARY AND DISCOVERS A DEEP-ROOTED DESIRE TO BE A MOTHER

Under your skin

ROXY BOURDILLON MEETS SKUNK ANANSIE’S LEAD SINGER TO DISCUSS HER 25-YEAR CAREER AS A QUEER ROCK STAR

BOOKS

LGBTQI+ culture is wide-ranging and diverse enough

MUSIC

After the release of her EP, Visions, AJIA returns

SAPPHIC ANGST FEST

GEORGINA TURNER ON ZINE CULTURE AND THE AWARD-WINNING BERENA ZINE, SAPPHIC ANGST FEST

SCREEN

Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) is an inexperienced

5 of the best…

lesbian and bisexual love stories to cuddle up with on Valentine’s day

Building Self Esteem

DANIELLE MUSTARDE TALKS REBIRTH, SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND CHANNELLING SERENA WILLIAMS WITH REBECCA LUCY TAYLOR

96 FESTIVAL

CREATED AS A THROWBACK TO CLAPHAM COMMON’S LEGENDARY 1996 PRIDE AFTER-PARTY, 96 FESTIVAL RETURNS TO OMNIBUS THEATRE NEXT MONTH. DANIELLE MUSTARDE FINDS OUT MORE

GAY’S (still) THE WORD

AS LONDON’S BELOVED BOOKSHOP CELEBRATES ITS 40TH BIRTHDAY, DIVA POPS IN TO PERUSE ITS SHELVES

“Don’t they know how lucky they are?”

VICTORIA GOLDING GOES TIME TRAVELLING IN HAPPY VALLEY

Reclaiming our spaces across Belfast

KY LIE NOBLE ON T HE QUEER, FEMINIST SPACE PROVIDING RESISTANCE A ND REF UGE FOR WOMEN IN THE DUP HE ARTL A NDS OF BELFAST

firefighter?

SAM WILSON EXPLAINS WHY WANNABE FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS NEEDN’T LET STEREOTYPES PUT THEM OFF…

How to navigate an office romance

A LITTLE ADVICE FOR THOSE OF US LOOKING FOR LOVE IN THE WORKPLACE

Nice: naughty, nice and everything in between

WHETHER YOU’RE AN ART ENTHUSIAST OR A BEACH BUM, THERE’S A LOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS UNEXPECTED LGBTQI+ DESTINATION

TAKE THE HIGH ROAD

CARRIE LYELL HEADS WEST TO GO WALLABY SPOTTING ON THOSE BONNY, BONNY BANKS

DIARY

THIS MONTH, IT’S THE LOVE ISSUE SO IN A BID TO SHARE THE LOVE, WE’VE ROUNDED UP A WHOLE HOST OF QUEERTASTIC HAPPENINGS, JUST FOR YOU

Mills and Boob

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE IN THIS TONGUE-IN-CHEEK SAPPHIC SPOOF

HOROSCOPE

MICHELE KNIGHT is a queer psychic, astrologer, broadcaster