We Should Applaud Those Brave Enough to Come Out, Not Tear Them Down… Seeing the trolls was obviously disappointing,but not surprising. Discovering that many of the trolls were other […]
We’re not bi now gay later… You wouldn’t think that in 2018 myths about bisexuality would still exist… but oh boy do they! We asked readers who identify as bisexual […]
Why is it so often the case that the struggle for equality can feel like one step forward and three back? In the UK, equalities minister Justine Greening has announced […]
Yesterday the media was awash with gay sex. In fact, I’ve never heard so much said about gay sex by the UK’s media (well not since Queer As Folk in […]
“Tim Farron is a homophobe”. At least, that’s what has been blowing up Twitter the past few days. This is due, more recently, to him again dodging a question about […]
I’m out to everybody. These days I rarely need to come out and say that I’m gay, but it wasn’t always like that. Over the years I’ve come out to […]
Scrolling through my Facebook news feed also shows up incidences of fat shaming and fursecution. There’s the perpetual thought that being overweight or hairy is unsexy and acceptable to be the subject of ridicule.
Over the past few years, transgender visibility has improved greatly with a number of trans people becoming very public through the media and I was even featured on Match of […]
In his latest book, The Descent of Man, Grayson Perry cleverly charts the misfortunes of masculinity and their repercussions on both the female and, more interestingly, the male sex. Perry […]
Apparently, there’s a school of thought that if you hide something under a rock or you stick a head in the sand, the problem goes away. Except it doesn’t. So […]
Every year at THEGAYUK we list the films and stars that should win the Oscar picked from films that people have actually seen as opposed to over rated critics favourites […]
