LGBTQ

Piers Morgan isn’t an LGBTQ+ Ally, He Just Played One on TV

During his most recent televised shouting match, Piers Morgan shared the sofa with Dr Michael Davidson, a man who believes that homosexuality is an aberration which can be cured. Morgan dismissed the practitioners of conversion therapy as “Just bigoted people who actually talk complete claptrap and who are, in my view, a …

The Long and Short of it: on Queer Girls and their Hair

Until I was twelve years old, I had waist length hair that adults used to regularly tell me I should never cut. People would always comment on how ‘lovely and long’ my hair was, and my hair was something that other people would always enthusiastically compliment. It was crucial in …

Trans Representation in Video Games: We Can Do Better

It’s commonly thought that the first trans character in a video game was Birdo, a recurring pink dinosaur boss in Super Mario Brothers 2 back in 1989. In the manual for the game, she was described as a ‘male who believes she is female’. Not the most flattering of descriptions. …

The Pecking Order of Progress

Across science and the arts, the first people to achieve something new-first to discover new countries, first flight, first on the moon-are overwhelmingly male. Not only that, but they are overwhelmingly white, straight, cisgender and of a relatively high social and economic standing. In the hierarchy of human achievement, there’s no question …

Navigating Grindr as a Non-Binary Trans Boy

Trigger Warning: Transmisogyny — Grindr is primarily a space for gay men, which means it’s full of machismo, femmephobia, racism, and general nonsense about gender. I’m a non-binary trans boy, and I’ve only recently been afforded a level of masculine expression which allows me access to grindr, and it’s an …

Shout Out to My Ex

My last long term relationship ended, in 2011, a few weeks before my 20th birthday. I’d had the same boyfriend for the last year and a half. We would spend every weekend together, and I was friends with his mum and his dog. All in all, we were two people …

‘SuperCorp’ Shipping Drama at Supergirl ComicCon Panel

Every year San Diego Comic Con comes around, and every year I am excited for the new content that will emerge from it. It’s a place where fans, who love and ship all different things, come together with the creators and cast members and should enjoy their time together. Fandoms of …

Pride and Prejudice and Cishet Intruders

This summer I went to Pride in London for the first time, and, as their ill thought out poster campaign promised, I met more than a few glittery cisgender heterosexuals looking for an excuse to party. When I am entering a queer space that is born out of the marginalisation …

I’m Your Daughter: What I Would Say If You Would Listen

You’re my mother, but I know I’m an embarrassment to you. I always was, but never more than now. I wonder if you know that other family members have reached out to me privately, with concern and worry. They’ve explained that you talk about me in hushed tones, trying to …

The Trans Representation Betrayal

When Matt Bomer, a cisgender actor, was first announced as the transgender lead in Anything an upcoming movie release about a trans sex worker, it caused a predictable backlash from transgender people on social media. Anything it seemed, was set to join a list that includes The Danish Girl, and …
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