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  • Homphobia in Football is up 43%

    Homphobia in Football is up 43%

    After the World Cup there is a warm glow for the success of the event and global acclaim for football generally. It is, however, not as welcoming and all-encompassing as some would have us believe,   and the  LGBTQ+ football charity Kick It Out has shared that it received 203 reports of homophobia in the sport during 2025/26,…

  • Deb Perry : Whispers of the Wharf At the edge of land and sea  : new work @ The Commons, Provincetown

    Deb Perry : Whispers of the Wharf At the edge of land and sea : new work @ The Commons, Provincetown

    When you live on the tiny strip of (really quite gay) land at the very tip of Cape Cod, there are certain traditions that we all love to live by.  A very important weekly one is the Friday Night Gallery Walk. Provincetown is, after all, the oldest Art Colony in the US, and is still…

  • Ryan Murphy strikes again with new TV series THE SHARDS on FX/Hulu

    Ryan Murphy strikes again with new TV series THE SHARDS on FX/Hulu

    One of the best words we use to describe queer producer/director Ryan Murphy is ‘prolific’.  He has so won many awards, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including the honorary Carol Burnett Award.  We are thinking that may be the reason that he owns three…

  • LGBTQIA+ Book-Banning Has Always Been a British Problem

    LGBTQIA+ Book-Banning Has Always Been a British Problem

    Reprinted from www.medium.com  by Emily Chudy As an LGBTQIA+ journalist, book-banning is nothing new to me; I’ve covered the topic extensively, interviewing authors and organisations like PEN America about how book-banning affects the LGBTQIA+ community and the campaigns to protect books against censorship. Throughout my writing, however, there’s always been one thing in common. The…