TEAM DIVA

HAPPY PRIDE! HERE’S HOW #TEAMDIVA ARE CELEBRATING THIS YEAR

Editor’s letter

I ’m writing this a fortnight after the

A letter from our publisher

Another Lesbian Visibility Week (LVW) has been and

TRENDING LGBTQI

owned or friendly organisations supporting the community this month

YOUR SHOUT

You said it...

Get the look: Grace and Frankie

WHY NOT TAKE SOME STYLE INSPO FROM THESE TWO ICONS?

DIVA Meets: Ki Griffin

SAY HELLO TO THE TRAILBLAZING ACTOR, ACTIVIST AND DJ

Not going to mask my pride

MILLICENT MACHELL reflects on being visibly queer

Before I say “I do”…

NIC CROSARA examines the marriage inequalities that face LGBTQI couples

I wish I was a celesbian baby. Or do I?

CAIT FINDLAY considers the highs and lows of baby life on the ‘gram

On the right track

IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DIVA PUBLISHER LINDA RILEY, CYCLIST EMILY BRIDGES OPENS UP ABOUT COMING OUT, TRANS INCLUSION IN SPORT AND HOW SHE FINDS THE STRENGTH TO KEEP PEDALLING

How Derry Girls empowered the “wee lesbian” in us all

CLARE DEVLIN’S CHARACTER RAISES THE BAR FOR ROUNDED, HEART-WARMING REPRESENTATION

Feeling myself

AUTHOR NATALIE LEE SHARES HER STORY OF SHEDDING SHAME AND FINALLY FINDING SEXUAL FREEDOM

The TikTok Lesbolution

FROM SAPPHIC THIRST TRAPS TO QUEER COUPLE ACCOUNTS, ALICE WILSON INVESTIGATES THE UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF LESBIAN TIKTOK

Meet the TikTokers serving up WLW visibility

POWER COUPLE CAMILLA AND JULIE LORENTZEN OPEN UP ABOUT BEING QUEER AND VISIBLE ON TIKTOK

A QUEER ROMANCE

MEET LORI-JADE BARKER AND MAX SLACK, TWO QUEER CREATIVES CELEBRATING THE BEAUTY OF LGBTQI LOVE AND PROVIDING THE REPRESENTATION WE NEED TO SEE

Tell me everything

AUTHOR LAURA KAY ON HER LATEST NOVEL AND THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER JOY IN FICTION

Non-binary joy

BEN PECHEY REFLECTS ON THE POWER OF EMBRACING PLEASURE BEYOND THE GENDER BINARY IN AN EXTRACT FROM THEIR NEW BOOK

BOOKS

Book of the Month THE SCHOOLHOUSE By Sophie

MUSIC

EP I USED TO BE SAM I Used

SCREEN

Pick of the Month WE’RE ALL GOING TO

My life would have been different if I had watched Heartstopper when I was younger

SEEING THIS BEAUTIFUL BISEXUAL LOVE IS LIFE-CHANGING

Why I’ll forever be an internet fangirl

FINDING ESCAPISM IN YOUTUBE FAN COMPILATIONS

All Stars Cabaret

DIVA PUBLISHER LINDA RILEY REVIEWS AN EVENING OF EXTREMELY QUEER-FRIENDLY ENTERTAINMENT, STARRING CLAIRE SWEENEY AT LONDON’S PROUD CABARET, EMBANKMENT

Is pansexuality bi erasure?

THERE ARE MANY STIGMAS THAT SURROUND DIFFERENT SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS. HOW DO WE BREAK FREE FROM THESE WHEN CHOOSING THE LABELS TO DESCRIBE OURSELVES?

WORKING CLASS PRIDE

HOW DOES CLASS AFFECT THE WAY WE NAVIGATE THE WORLD AS QUEER PEOPLE?

Dear Ali ...

THIS MONTH, ALI HELPS A READER COMMUNICATE THEIR FEELINGS

Your vagina is not broken

THERE’S MORE TO SEX THAN PAIN AND PENETRATION: TIME TO LIFT THE SEXUAL HEALTH STIGMA

SEXY BITS

SEX TOY OF THE MONTH LOVE TRIANGLE BY

My secret sex diary

FELICITY REVISITS HOW HAVING DRUNK SEX IN HER STUDENT ACCOMMODATION’S POST ROOM EMBOLDENED HER IN THE BEDROOM AS TOLD TO ELEANOR NOYCE