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News and updates from the gay community. Here, you will find exclusive first-person feature pieces, as well information about gay rights and issues around the world and the history behind the community's fight for equality. In 2025, LGBT History Month takes place in February, whilst Pride takes place in June.

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GAY TIMES Honours 2022 sponsored by Meta Quest - Studio

Boys at school banned me from the gym showers

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle January 24, 2026 By Jamie Windust

Queer people are winning the 2016 trend, but it can be bittersweet for many of us

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle January 22, 2026 By Lois Shearing
TX DATE:15-01-2026,TX WEEK:2,EMBARGOED UNTIL:15-01-2026 21:00,PEOPLE:Matthew, Rachel & Stephen,DESCRIPTION:++POST TX ONLY++,COPYRIGHT:Studio Lambert,CREDIT LINE:BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry

This gut-punch Traitors moment had me in tears

Channel: TV TV January 22, 2026 By Adam Miller
Dan Glass posing for the camera, looking serious.

I live with HIV - people still ask if I'm 'clean'

Channel: Health Health January 5, 2026 By Dan Glass

I've been having mind-blowing sex with a woman for months – my boyfriend is clueless

Channel: Sex Sex January 5, 2026 By Laura Collins
Marty and Brandy Mar, when they were younger. // Marty Mar, 45, from Phoenix, Arizona, and Brandy Mar, 43, have been together for over 17 years. Marty first met Brandy at a BBQ in 2008, who was dating someone he was friends with, and he was one of the first people he came out to. She called him her ?gay husband? and he met her family as a gay man. They hung out every day, became best friends, and eventually fell in love. Photo released 31/12/2025

I'm a gay man in a lavender marriage — we don't have sex but I won't divorce my wife

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle December 31, 2025 By Charlie Sawyer
Jason Reid smiles while wearing an Aids Memorial t-shirt

My HIV status is no-one's business but my own

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle December 1, 2025 By Jason Reid
Grindr has created a fashion line using the wool of 'gay sheep'

Grindr has created a fashion line using the wool of 'gay sheep'

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle November 14, 2025 By Charlie Sawyer
why do straight women have the horn for gay men?

Why straight women get the horn for hot, gay men

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle November 5, 2025 By Charlie Sawyer
Pictured here is Conner Clissord-GoughA neighbour has been jailed for attacking a gay couple living next door over their noisy music.Conner Clissord-Gough, 33, stormed out of his home complaining that the sounds from next door meant he couldn't hear his television.A court heard he barged through his neighbours' door before dragging one to the floor to call him a "little b****".CCTV footage show the victim pleading with Clissord-Gough to stop as he held him on the floor - and his partner fled to hide in a bedroom.As he was wrestled to the ground the victim shouted at his partner: ???Don???t come out. Call the police babe.???Prosecutor Elin Morgan said the victims were a same-sex couple and the attack was homophobic.Clissord-Gough had told the victim as he assaulted him: ???Be the submissive little b**** you are. You understand.???The victim later told police: ???I honestly believed he was going to kill me. I genuinely thought this was the end.???Ms Morgan said in the footage the victim could be heard shouting at the defendant: ???You???re going to kill me.???A court heard he wanted to scare his neighbours and had been drinking heavily.Ms Morgan said: "He said he wanted to watch a film. ???He said he was being disturbed.??? Ms Morgan said.He pleaded guilty on August 22 to making threats to kill, intentional strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault.Andrew Kendall, defending, said while the attack involved homophobia it wasn???t motivated by it.He said it was motivated by a noise dispute between neighbours.Clissord-Gough, of Rhydyfelin, Pontypridd, admitted making threats to kill, intentional strangulation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault. He was jailed for 18 months.The judge also imposed a restraining order preventing him from approaching the men for five years.WALES NEWS SERVICE

Man jailed after launching homophobic attack on neighbours over 'music'

Channel: UK UK October 27, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Jules Von Hep smiles in front of a grey wall

I was so used to homophobic abuse that I didn't report my attack

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle October 1, 2025 By Jules Von Hep
Play Video LGBTQ+ Pride and trans flags torn down from queer salon 'two times in four weeks' George Waterfield

LGBTQ+ Pride and trans flags torn down from queer salon 'two times in three weeks'

Channel: UK UK October 1, 2025 By Josh Milton
GAY TIMES Honours 2022 sponsored by Meta Quest - Studio

I was left scarred after boys at school banned me from gym showers

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle January 24, 2026 By Jamie Windust
Will Owen: I?m not special, I?m just gay

A Lady Gaga song made me realise I'm just like every other gay man

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle August 6, 2025 By Will Owen

The Bend It Like Beckham sequel needs to be gay as hell

Channel: Film Film July 30, 2025 By Sharan Dhaliwal
Jamie Valentino - I went on a first date with someone - except we slept together two months before

We slept together - 5 months later we went on our first date

Channel: Sex Sex July 2, 2025 By Jamie Valentino
Darren Shoneye: I got shigella and it was the worst experience of my life

I told my date my sexual preferences and was immediately ghosted

Channel: Sex Sex June 25, 2025 By Darren Shoneye
Erique Estrela takes a selfie

I confronted a straight man on Grindr - his reaction floored me

Channel: Sex Sex June 11, 2025 By Erique Estrela
TITLE:I Kissed a Boy (s2),EP NUMBER:1,TX DATE:11-05-2025,TX WEEK:19,EMBARGOED UNTIL:30-04-2025 00:00:00,PEOPLE:Lars,DESCRIPTION:Contestant,COPYRIGHT:Two Four Broadcast Ltd.,CREDIT LINE:BBC / Two Four Broadcast Ltd. / Corinne Cumming

'I'm the first trans man on a UK gay dating show – I feel validated'

Channel: TV TV June 8, 2025 By Emily Bashforth
Daniel Harding - Letters to my Younger Queer Self

I came out 20 years ago - these are the lessons I've learned

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle June 6, 2025 By Daniel Harding