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COMMUNITY, VISIBILITY & BELONGING

Articles exploring LGBTQ+ belonging, visibility, queer joy, community, ageing within the LGBTQ+ community, acceptance, connection, and the importance of feeling seen and valued.

Why We Still Need Pride

Pride isn’t just a parade or a party. It’s a reminder of where we’ve come from, what we’ve overcome and why visibility still matters. In a world where prejudice, discrimination and minority stress haven’t disappeared, Pride offers something powerful: community, belonging and hope. Because the rights we enjoy today weren’t guaranteed, and they weren’t won alone.

Queer Joy, Community, And The Courage To Be Seen

Queer joy is far more than celebration or Pride flags. For many LGBTQ+ people, it represents healing, connection, visibility, and finally feeling safe enough to fully be yourself. In this personal reflection, I explore recovery, shame, community, therapy, and how joining a LGBTQ+ choir became part of my journey from hiding who I was to learning I could belong exactly as I am.

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day remains an important and emotional day for many people in the LGBTQ+ community. HIV shaped generations of queer lives, relationships, friendships, and communities, and while huge medical progress has been made, stigma, misinformation, fear, and silence...

Hook Up Apps, Rejection, & LGBTQ+ Mental Health

Hook up apps can be complicated spaces for many people in the LGBTQ+ community. While they can offer connection, validation, intimacy, and community, they can also expose people to rejection, discrimination, body shaming, racism, misogyny, and HIV stigma in ways that...

The Books Every Gay Man Needs To Read

For many LGBTQ+ people, particularly gay men, shame can quietly shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, our confidence, and the way we move through the world. Sometimes that shame becomes so familiar that we stop recognising how deeply it affects our mental...

Growing Older In The LGBTQ+ Community, Ageing, Visibility & Belonging

For many LGBTQ+ people, getting older can bring up complicated feelings around visibility, identity, self worth, and belonging. Much of LGBTQ+ culture can feel heavily focused on youth, appearance, and desirability, particularly within apps, nightlife, and online...

There Is No LGB Without The T: Why LGBTQ+ Solidarity Matters

Recent years have seen growing attempts to divide the LGBTQ+ community by excluding trans and non binary people from conversations around equality, rights, and Pride. But LGBTQ+ history has always been deeply interconnected. The rights, visibility, and freedoms many...

Section 28 v2.0

he UK government's new guidance restricting teachers from encouraging trans young people to explore and understand their identity feels like a deeply worrying step backwards. As a gay man who grew up under Section 28, it feels painfully familiar. Back then, teachers...