Attitude Magazine

The World’s Best Gay Magazine. We pride ourselves on exclusive content and we are the premier destination for film, music, sports and pop stars plus LGBT heroes and allies that want to speak directly to gay men. Each issue has a balance of features on a diverse range of subjects, with block busting A-list celebrity exclusives and in-depth analysis of news and issues affecting the LGBT community. No other gay magazine can come anywhere near Attitude’s star pulling power, with celebrities such as James Franco, Tom Hardy, Elton John, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ian McKellen, Liam Payne, Take That, Matthew Lewis and countless more giving exclusive gay press interviews to us. Plus we have the likes of Paris Lees, Matt Lucas, David Furnish, not only appearing in the magazine but also writing for it.

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The Rules • …for getting more gays into sport

SITUATION CRITICAL • Chief Executive of the national health and wellbeing charity LGBT HERO, Ian Howley talks about the impact COVID-19 and lockdown have had on the LGBTQ+ community following the charity’s recent findings that one in three LGBTQ+ people have considered suicide in the past 12 months

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I may be larger, but I’m wiser • SADDLE UP FOR MILO PONY, AKA AARON LIBBY, WHO UNDERSTANDS THE BARE NECESSITIES OF LIFE AS ONE OF BROOKLYN’S BEST-LOVED BOYLESQUE PERFORMERS

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DS 7 Crossback Louvre • Born of Paris, with a sense of style and all the tech you’d expect and more, DS presents haute couture on wheels

In sync • As Team GB synchronised divers Tom Daley and Matty Lee prepare for the Olympics, we take the plunge with the pair to talk staying fit and sane in lockdown and being pals as well as dive partners. We also get the score on Tom’s ‘Papa’ status, that crochet craze, oh, and what they wear in bed…

THE POWER OF LOVE • Peter Scott-Morgan was determined not only to survive but thrive when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease — by becoming the world’s first full ‘cyborg’. The scientist tells Attitude howbeing gay and his love for his husband, Francis, fuelled his extraordinary fight to rewrite his future

Faith in Love • For his new film, After Love, director and writer Aleem Khan created the main character, Mary, as a love letter to his mother. After her husband dies, Mary discovers that he was leading a double life, and in her search for answers, she finds she is not the only one grieving his loss

THE FIRST LADY OF PUNK ROCK • Punk rocker Jayne County is one of the most important trans pioneers — period. That her name isn’t instantly recognisable to the public is an indictment of how hidden the history of the transgender experience remains. That’s all about to change with the long-awaited publication of her updated classic autobiography, Man Enough to Be a Woman…

HISTORY LESSONS • Novelist Paul Mendez on why he stepped away from his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing to embrace the power of his queer Black identity

NORTHERN LIGHT • Princess Julia searches the sensitive soul of American singer-songwriter John Grant, quite possibly music’s most discerning mind

THE STORY OF US • In collaboration with the National HIV Story Trust, Attitude meets four individuals whose lives have been impacted by HIV/Aids — from a lesbian nurse on the hospital wards in the ’90s, to a long-term survivor — as they discuss their experiences, the importance of remembering the past, and the stigma that remains to this day

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