A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Should sexuality be a factor when we vote in this year’s general election? Now that gay men have equal rights in most parts of the UK, it’s a question many of us are asking.

The word on the street

JAY JAY A summer of vogue balls by English Breakfast

Agenda

THE THINGS WE LOVE THIS MONTH

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CLIFF JOANNOU

Fear is a very useful tool for control

THE RULES

For babysitting nieces and nephews

BALLOT-BOX CLEVER

None of the leaders of the main political parties has a perfect record on LGBT+ issues, so choose where to put your cross carefully on polling day, says writer JACK MAY

DANNY LEE WYNTER

Continuing to dream of life in a mansion still inspires me

CABIN FEVER

It’s time for another Pirates of the Caribbean adventure, and this time there’s a swashbuckling new heartthrob on board in the shape of Australian hunk BRENTON THWAITES. Just be careful you don’t fall overboard and drown in his eyes…

LEO IN LA LA LAND

You don’t have to be a hunk in trunks to make a pool party go swimmingly, as water baby LEO RICHARDSON finds out

ELLIOTT KINGSLEY

ACTOR ELLIOTT KINGSLEY TELLS ATTITUDE ABOUT APPEARING IN A RE-IMAGINED VERSION OF ROMEO & JULIET WHERE THE PAIR OF STAR-CROSS’D LOVERS ARE BOTH MEN

PAUL FLYNN

There’s a certain uncertainty to the PM’s words

WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN…

WITH SUMMER ON THE HORIZON, JAMES BARR HAS THE ALL THE BEST TUNES — IF NOT THE BODY — FOR THAT BEACH PARTY

SECOND COUSIN

SAM CLAFLIN LOOKS THE PART IN A NEW VERSION OF DU MAURIER’S SUSPENSE-FILLED STORY

ENGENDERING SOMETHING NEW

JUNO DAWSON IS PERFECTLY SUITED TO WRITE ABOUT BINARY LIMITATIONS — AND DOES SO WITH WIT AND HONESTY

Culture club

Why, 20 years on, I’m still a sucker for gay TV classic BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

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BIG GAY FOLLOWING

LISTING ARLENE PHILLIPS’ CAREER milestones needs a

BREAST OF BRITISH

HE WON OLYMPIC GOLD IN THE 100M BREASTSTROKE IN 2016 — TEAM GB’S FIRST IN RIO — AND HOLDS THREE WORLD RECORDS. NOW, THE AMAZINGLY BUILT ADAM PEATY TELLS US ABOUT AN EARLY HATRED OF THE WATER, HIS WORK ETHIC AND INSPIRING OTHERS

SWIMMING AGAINST THE T IDE

DESPITE REPRESENTING A NATION WHERE HOMOSEXUALITY IS STILL OUTLAWED, TONGAN OLYMPIC SWIMMER AMINI FONUA HAS THRIVED AND IS AIMING TO BE A BEACON OF HOPE FOR OTHER YOUNG GAY ATHLETES

SPIES LIKE US

THE TALISMAN OF GCHQ, THE GOVERNMENT’S COMMUNICATIONS HEADQUARTERS, IS ALAN TURING, ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC FIGURES IN GAY HISTORY. BUT IN THE 1950s A GOVERNMENT EDICT PROHIBITED THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM EMPLOYING GAY MEN. MANY OF THOSE ALREADY WORKING AT THE ORGANISATION WERE REMOVED AND THE POLICY REMAINED IN PLACE UNTIL AS LATE AS 1993. HOWEVER, JUST FOUR MONTHS AGO, GCHQ WAS RANKED 75TH ON STONEWALL’S WORKPLACE EQUALITY INDEX, WHICH MEASURES THE MOST LGBT+ FRIENDLY EMPLOYERS IN THE UK. NOW ATTITUDE HAS BEEN GRANTED EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO FIND OUT HOW AND WHY SUCH A MONUMENTAL CHANGE HAS TAKEN

ON THE DOWNLOW

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF QUEER GLASTONBURY

From the BTTM up

ATTITUDE MEETS PWR BTTM, THE QUEER PUNK BAND REDEFINING GENRES AND GENDERS

“A LOT OF GAY MEN AS A CONSOLATION PRIZE BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T BE WOMEN”

AUTHOR AND ATTITUDE COLUMNIST JUNO DAWSON REVEALS HOW BEING UNHAPPY AS A GAY MAN HELPED HER REALISE SHE WASN’T A MAN AT ALL BUT ACTUALLY A TRANS WOMAN

BACHELORS OF THE YEAR 2017

Last month, the world’s most eligible gay bachelors

BURTON X JAMIE REDKNAPP

There is no denying that everyone loves a bit of Jamie

BEACH BOY

When the mercury’s rising, cool off with a dip in some formfitting swim briefs, or pull on shorts and a shirt for cocktails at the beach bar

BRIEF

Sometimes simple can make a big impact

RED ALERT

BORN IN A BRITISH ARMY CAMP IN GERMANY, NEIL JONES GREW UP PLAYING LOTS OF SPORT. BUT FROM AN EARLY AGE, AND DESPITE WARNINGS THAT HE WOULDN’T EVER MAKE IT, ALL HE EVER WANTED TO DO WAS DANCE…

ACTIVATE

THE LATEST TECH, GEAR AND INFO. THIS MONTH, A CYCLING SPECIAL

CORE

COR BLIMEY, YOU’LL LOOK GOOD

REAL BODIES

“Check out the most woofed section on Scruff. It is

Tropical island is a breeze

THE MALDIVES IS PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE’S IDEA OF HEAVEN ON EARTH BUT PRESENTS A THORNY PROBLEM FOR LGBT+ TOURISTS. SO, ASKS ADAM DUXBURY, IS IT REALLY PARADISE?

Cabin crew

FAWEATHER GRANGE PROVES THAT A STAY IN A ROMANTIC LOG CABIN CAN BEAT A STUFFY HOTEL ANY DAY OF THE WEEK

Just the ticket

TRAVEL TIPS AND A ROUND-UP OF THE LATEST HOLIDAY NEWS. THIS MONTH WE ARE PREPARING YOU FOR SUMMER WITH HOLIDAYS AND GREAT NEW TECH…

The cruelest of cuts

Aged just seven, haemophiliac Mark Ward contracted

Man of the month

Each month we profile one of you guys, our readers, to find out what you get up to in your life

Buddy brilliant

In a celebration of queer friendship, we ask best mates some telling questions and find out just how well they really know each other

NO PLACE LIKE HOME

Orchard Wharf is a new complex of one, two and three-bedroom

A problem shared

Got a problem? DR RANJ SINGH and WAYNE DHESI are here to offer their advice…

Table for two

Sam and David dined at M Restaurant Victoria Street, London

Stepping out

We all remember that exciting, nerve-racking night when we made our debut on the scene. So what was it like for you, the first time you walked through the door of a gay venue?

BIG IN A WIG

LADY DIAMOND IS TO SITGES WHAT RUPAUL IS TO GLAMOROUS DRAG — LEGENDARY, LARGER THAN LIFE AND A BITCH TO BE RECKONED WITH. IN SPAIN’S FAVOURITE GAY RESORT, WHERE THERE ARE GLITTER AND SEQUINS, SHE’S NOT FAR BEHIND