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MY FIRST ATTITUDE WAS…

Darren Styles OBE ATTITUDE PUBLISHER My late father,

CHANGING ATTITUDES

In May, Attitude magazine turns 30 years old — we know, we know — we don’t look a day over 21. Here, we look back on our glittering history… and our staggering suite of covers

As Attitude turns 30, we reflect on how we’ve changed

T he UK was a bleak place for

LOVES

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Who has had the biggest impact on LGBTQ+ rights in the past 30 years?

Four voices offer their very different heroes

Jonny Woo

Describe your stage persona in three words. Chaotic,

SHOW. ME. THE. RECEIPTS.

She’s tipped for Conservative leadership. But just how

A work in progress

PHOTOGRAPHER: CORINNE CUMMING, STYLIST: BERTIE TAYLOR-SMITH; For three

Feeling good in the grey zone

Trauma patients are notorious black-andwhite thinkers. After being

The 3 most powerful franchises of the last (and next) 30 years

Exploring the furthest reaches of the multiverse

Range Rover Sport SV

A two-and-a-half tonne SUV that doubles as a supercar may sound unlikely, but so expansive is the bandwidth of the new Sport SV that Range Rover has delivered just that

WHO I AM

From Sex Education to Barbie through to his fresh, titular role in Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa is a thoroughly modern British screen star. More than that, he is enjoying therapy, has proudly confronted his internalised homophobia and is now joyfully sitting on top of the world

MY FIRST ATTITUDE

Senior writer Alastair James chats to friends of Attitude about their first memories of the magazine and what it meant to them

For better or worse?

Dr Ranj Singh on 30 years of LGBTQ+ healthcare

CHANGING PLACES

Ahead of his role in the upcoming Netflix series Eric, McKinley Belcher III reveals how he got into acting, why he doesn’t want to gatekeep queer roles, and what he looks for in a character

THE SINGER MASKED

As Lynks releases their debut album ABOMINATION, the elusive singer/rapper/drag performer speaks to Attitude about new music, drag bans in the US and their take on 3-in-1 shower gels…

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW

Dr Mark Perera tells Attitude about his path towards accepting his sexuality and his body, and what inspired him to get into LGBTQ+ healthcare

Sam Altman

PROFILE

FIGHTING TALK

Formerly an ordained priest and now as the Labour MP for Rhondda, Sir Chris Bryant has been guided by a drive to correct the wrongs of the world. Here, he discusses changing the political system, the current Conservative government, and the controversy over trans rights

Dying with dignity

The Attitude Magazine Foundation supports Hospice UK’s efforts to end the discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in end-of-life care

BETH DITTO

Punk diva, actress, fashion icon, voice of body positivity — Beth Ditto can do it all. As the singer of indie-rock band Gossip, she’s slayed audiences and stunned runways the world over for 25 years. Now, there’s one more achievement she can tick off: taking Attitude’s fabulousity test

TRAVEL

THE WORLD IN FOCUS

Just the TICKET

POP THE FIZZ English sparkling wine has been

Wild at Heart

Cliff Joannou joins Wilderness on safari to explore the outstanding beauty of Botswana’s Okavango delta

Desert queens

As Attitude celebrates 30 years, so, too, does The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the iconic film that sees two drag queens and a trans woman travel across Australia. To mark this moment, we join a posse of drag artists Down Under on a Priscilla nostalgia trail…

MEL B

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MALACHI BANALES ‘W e’re eating chips

DIVINE INSPIRATION

Attitude attends the launch of The Divine, “naughty little sister” of nowdeparted The Glory, in east London

BEATS & PIECES

SAMANTHA TOGNI

BSIDES

One of music’s original divas, Cher has plenty of diamonds in her back catalogue

JUKEBOX

Joseph Ryan-Hicks hits the gay nostalgia button with Erasure’s I Say ISay ISay

BOOKS

ASK THE AUTHOR

LINES OF BEAUTY

Uli Lenart of Gay’s The Word bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, shares his pick of 30 gamechanging gay-themed novels from the past 30 years

BEYOND BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

To mark Attitude’s 30th anniversary, film reviewer Guy Lodge shares 30 of the best moments from the past three decades of LGBTQ+ cinema

Blazing a TRAIL

The 2024 outing of the Attitude 101, empowered by Bentley, was a dazzling event filled with LGBTQ+ trailblazers coming together to celebrate each other and the community

SUPER STYLE

Over the past 30 years, Attitude has celebrated some of the greatest LGBTQ+ icons from the world of fashion on our cover. Let’s take a look back at some of the finest…

CRUSH

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS The Dsquared2 twins have revved things

CELEBRATION!

We’re 30! Time to bring on the fashion cake…

BEAUTY

PURE AND SIMPLE Louis Vuitton has gone for

JAGUAR

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