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The Rules • …for celebrating Pride at home
Dating? I’m proud to be picky
#INSTAMAN • MODEL MATTHEW MCMAHON LOVES TO POST A SAUCY PIC ON HIS INSTAGRAM, AND OFTEN GETS HIS FRIENDS IN ON THE ACTION
Pride shines on • As many Pride celebrations go online rather than on the streets this year, Mark Gevisser explores the importance of Pride and the internet to the LGBTQ community
BeBe Zahara Benet • The first queen to be crowned a Drag Race winner, BeBe Zahara Benet is as legendary as the show she made herstory on. Her new EP, Broken English, is out now
Bentley Continental GT Convertible • All dressed up but nowhere to go – how we lived through lockdown with Bentley’s finest
Song and Dance • The anti-hero of Netflix’s eagerly anticipated comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Dan Stevens speaks exclusively to Juno Dawson about the world’s best-loved music event and his Russian character’s big secret…
Poet warrior • As America has been set alight with riots after the shocking death of George Floyd by police hands, poet Jericho Brown has made history as the first gay black man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his latest poetry collection, The Tradition. Now he wants to use his new-found profile to reframe our broken world
GOODE GIRL • Gigi Goode showed that they were a force to be reckoned with from the second they stepped into the workroom of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12, and quickly proved that their talents extended much further than just fashion
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH • Not only is racism as endemic in the UK as it is in the US, but it’s an LGBTQ issue, too. None of us can be free from discrimination until we all are, says Lerone Clarke-Oliver
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION • Fifty years ago, the London branch of the Gay Liberation Front — the UK’s first ever queer activist group — met for the first time. In its short life, the GLF set up the Gay Switchboard, the first gay newspaper and, crucially, laid the foundations for future gay rights movements that followed. Here, Attitude talks to two early members
It’s mutilation not surgery • Forcing medical procedures on intersex youngsters to “correct” their gender is akin to gay conversion therapy and must be banned, says campaigner Pidgeon Pagonis
PRIDE IN OUR NHS HEROES • During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals in our NHS hospitals have been on the front line, selflessly going beyond the call of duty to care for patients battling the virus. Here, LGBTQ staff at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington tell us their stories
Hubert Pouches and Douglas Coats • Creators of San Diego-based menswear brand, Rufskin
Word is out • Ever heard of the language Lubunca? If not, that’s good news, because for at least a century, Turkish LGBTQ...