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News and updates from the LGBTQ+ community. Here you'll find information on Pride events, exclusive first-person feature pieces, explainers on genders and sexual orientations, LGBTQ+ rights and history around the world, and everything else to do with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer matters. In 2025, LGBT History Month takes place in February, whilst Pride takes place in June.

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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
HIDI How I do it 24/12 Picture: Myles Goode/ getty

I love loud sex with my girlfriend — but my childhood bedroom is a mood killer

Channel: Sex Sex January 2, 2026 By Alice Giddings
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
Play Video The Hunting Wives The thriller series stars Malin A?kerman, Brittany Snow, Dermot Mulroney, and Chrissy Metz. NETFLIX LIONSGATE

'Fantastically naughty' drama streamed 5,200,000 times on debut finally added to ITVX

Channel: TV TV December 28, 2025 By Charlotte Minter
Jamie Valentino standing outside at night, with his hands in his trouser pockets

I thought he loved me - but I was blind to the red flags

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle December 30, 2025 By Jamie Valentino
Amrou Al-Kadhi as Glamrou

Performing in drag let me rewrite narratives as an Arab in the UK

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle December 30, 2025 By Amrou Al-Kadhi
Woman closing pink door of apartment

Dad kicked Mum out at Christmas - I had a stepmum by New Year's

Channel: Families Families December 29, 2025 By Anonymous

We let refugees stay in our home - it changed our lives

Channel: Families Families December 30, 2025 By Alex Milne
A policeman walking away from an elderly person's home.

Bigots are celebrating the end of non-crime hate incidents - I’m not

Channel: UK UK December 24, 2025 By Sharan Dhaliwal
Inside Lonodn's G-A-Y nightclub empty and bereft of furniture

Last look inside empty G-A-Y Bar after nobody buys it

Channel: UK UK December 23, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Rosie Jones shares joy of secret relationship after 'not feeling worthy of love' Picture: josierones

Rosie Jones shares joy of secret relationship after 'not feeling worthy of love'

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz December 20, 2025 By Emily Bashforth
Daniel Wood, who never thought he'd be a dad.

I thought adoption was impossible as a single, gay man - I was wrong

Channel: Families Families December 31, 2025 By Daniel Wood
Emma Flint: I'm abrosexual ? don't tell me to 'pick a lane'

I'm abrosexual - here's what that means

Channel: Sex Sex December 17, 2025 By Emma Flint
Alexander Skarsgård as Ray leans against the bar to look at Harry Melling as Ray, with his head bowed down, in a scene from Pillion

This is the most exciting new Christmas film you can still see in cinemas

Channel: Film Film December 10, 2025 By Tori Brazier
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist, and Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar, in an embrace, in a scene from Brokeback Mountain.

Brokeback Mountain is still the most important love story 20 years on

Channel: Film Film December 9, 2025 By Laura Harman
Dee Whitnell at an event for Trans+ History Week, standing in front of a promotional wall (Picture: Dee Whitnell)

Sex with a fellow trans person put me off cis men for life

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle January 9, 2026 By Dee Whitnell
A couple of friends in conversation, with one explaining something and the other looking confused, against a colourful background.

'Turning 19 in Poland': The compliment you didn't know existed in 2025's top gay slang

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle December 5, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce

From Girl Guides to the Women's Institute, trans people are being told they don't belong

Channel: UK UK December 4, 2025 By jane fae
Play Video LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 20, 2024: Transgender people and their supporters gather in Parliament Square ahead of a march through central London to protest against a ban on puberty blockers in London, United Kingdom on April 20, 2024. From April 1 National Health Service (NHS) as well as private clinics stopped prescribing drugs suppressing sex hormones during puberty to young people seeking gender transition following the independent review of gender identity services for children under 18 led by Dr Hilary Cass. (Photo credit should read Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Children 'can't just decide to be on puberty blocker trial', says Wes Streeting

Channel: UK UK December 3, 2025 By Josh Milton
TOPSHOT - A protester waves a transgender pride flag as she walks down Regent Streets during a march in support of "trans rights" in central London on May 25, 2025. Britain's Supreme Court said the legal definition of a "woman" is based on a person's sex at birth, a landmark ruling with far-reaching implications to the bitter debate over trans rights. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Women's Institute and Girl Guides ban transgender members

Channel: UK UK December 3, 2025 By Brooke Davies

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