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THE WORLD IS WAITING • Virgin Atlantic’s Chief Commercial Officer Juha Jarvinen reveals how the airline is working to show anti-LGBTQ+ countries the social and economic benefits of embracing equality
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#INSTAMAN @cainbolton • CATCHING OUR EYE (AND GIVING US SERIOUS WARDROBE ENVY) THIS MONTH IS CAIN BOLTON, A 24-YEAR-OLD VISUAL MANAGER FROM LONDON
Ford Ranger Raptor • Big, brash and uncompromising, the Raptor stops traffic, brims parking bays and makes a scene. What’s not to love?
ART to ART • When he’s not on screen in his usual capacity as one of the UK’s most prominent actors, Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast interviewing leading figures in the visual arts. As they prepare to publish the podcast’s eponymous guide to contemporary art, Russell sat down with his good friend and celebrated conceptual artist and painter Sir Michael Craig-Martin to discuss their mutual adoration of the arts, and how their sexuality has become a canvas for their careers
BOLT FROM THE BLUE • Author George M. Johnson discusses gender boundaries and the need for change in their young adult, non-fiction ‘memoir-manifesto’, All Boys Aren’t Blue
Playing for keeps • Discussing her latest role as Dorset’s 19th-century fossil-hunter Mary Anning in Ammonite, Oscar-winning British actress Kate Winslet reveals her hope that the film will help to normalise same-sex relationships and increase queer roles for LGBTQ actors
Into the blue • Sequin in a Blue Room explores a teenage boy’s burgeoning sexual desires through an obsession with anonymous, no-strings encounters. Director and co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven writes why he never wanted to make the film… but is glad he did
Sashay away? • The Attitude Travel Survey supported by Belmond made for some surprising, and not so surprising, facts, with one thing for sure: queer people are ready and raring to take off on holiday
Finding his tribe • Wapi is an Amazonian tribesman who didn’t understand why he was attracted to men as well as women. Sarah Begum shares how she helped him understand what it means to be bisexual when they met in the Tatuyo community in northern Brazil
WILD AT HEART • Category is… saving the planet as Wyn Wiley, aka environmental drag ‘thing’ Pattie Gonia, speaks up about activism, queering up the outdoors, and what he has both lost and found as a result of being unapologetically himself
Over the rainbow • After going viral with an out and proud Instagram post, Bolu Okupe – son of a homophobic Nigerian politician – opens up about living his best “Gay AF” life, no matter what the haters have to say
The Coast is QUEER • With local travel restrictions about to be...