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THE9+. Queer News. May 14. Eurovision Protest Against Israel, France Apologies, Vienna Traffic Lights and much more

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A weekly digest of the most essential queer news in your backyard! This week, THE9+ is edited by GAY45, the News Editor Taylor Abbot, with the support of the editorial team. If you want to hear the most essential news commented on in-depth, you can listen to our weekly podcast,...

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THE9+. Queer News. May 14. Eurovision Protest Against Israel, France Apologies, Vienna Traffic Lights and much more

In partnership with www.DerAffe.io

Taylor Abbot

A weekly digest of the most essential queer news in your backyard! This week, THE9+ is edited by GAY45, the News Editor Taylor Abbot, with the support of the editorial team. If you want to hear the most essential news commented on in-depth, you can listen to our weekly podcast, GenClash: Queer Perspectives on Current Affairs. We’re delighted to share that GAY45 is undergoing...

Queer Women Face Death in Afghanistan, LGBTQ+ Groups Are Silent

Jude Jones

Since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, Afghanistan has become one of the deadliest places in the world for LGBTQ+ people. Queer Afghans face systemic persecution, torture, and execution – often...

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GAMES OPINION

Why Diversity in Video Games is Important: The Psychology Behind Representation

Jolina Bering

The desire for representation in video games is often dismissed as ‘whinging’. Psychologist Jolina explains what this has to do with social identities. This year, the annual Pride Month in June once...

Eurovision Remains a Litmus Test for Europe's Queer Communities

MUSIC OPINION POLITICS

Eurovision Pride Ban: A Litmus Test for Europe’s Queer Communities

Jude Jones

This month, German news site queer.de reported that the Federal Democratic Party (EDU), a Swiss Christian fundamentalist party, had launched measures to block the 2025 iteration of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC)...

Queer Marvel hero Kitty Pryde. Image sourced from Screen Rant.

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THE9+. Queer News. May 7. First Film Awards for Trans and Queer in East Europe, Eurovision Bans Pride Flags and much more

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Taylor Abbot

A weekly digest of the most essential queer news in your backyard! This week, THE9+ is edited by GAY45 the News Editor Taylor Abbot, with the support of the editorial team. If...

FASHION POP CULTURE

Black Dandyism at the 2025 Met Gala: Queer Style, History, and Legacy

Kadaman Watson

This year, the Met Gala made Black dandyism the belle of the ball, spotlighting a rich history of self-expression, sartorial resistance, and gender subversion, with Black queer icons sashaying down the carpet...

OPINION POLITICS

Britain’s Transphobia is Dishonest

Mila Edensor

Following the British Supreme Court’s ruling that trans women are not women, Mila Edensor argues that this perfectly exemplifies a unique brand of British transphobia whose goal, against America’s strategy of upfront...

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Once relegated to the extremist fringes, far-right ideologies are no longer whispered in shadows—they are shouted from podiums, their champions rebranded in polished suits and technocratic precision. Enter Alice Weidel, a former Goldman Sachs banker turned leader of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). She is a lesbian, a mother, and...

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THE9+. Queer News. May 14. Eurovision Protest Against Israel, France Apologies, Vienna Traffic Lights and much more

Taylor Abbot

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THE9+. Queer News. May 7. First Film Awards for Trans and Queer in East Europe, Eurovision Bans Pride Flags and much more

Taylor Abbot

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THE9+. Queer News. April 23. Photojournalist Killed, Gay Club Owner Jailed, and much more

Jude Jones

Our Podcast: Queer Perspectives on Current Affairs

A GAY45 original podcast published every two weeks on Thursdays, where Miruna Tiberiu, the Editor-in-Chief of GAY45 and Răzvan Ion, a professor of critical thinking, two dynamic queer individuals from different generations come together to passionately debate the hottest topics in the weekly queer new.

Film and TV

FILM AND TV HISTORY LITERATURE

David Bowie, Derek Jarman, and the First Homosexual in History

Jude Jones

You know about Akhnaten, do you? No I’m afraid I don’t. I thought not, otherwise you would have seen the significance of it straight away. Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool...

ART FILM AND TV

Dorian Gray Meets Studio 54: Censorship, Desire, and the Art of Rebellion

João Delfim

FILM AND TV

Oscar and César Awards 2025: Triumphs, Controversies, and Surprises

Sasha Brandt

FILM AND TV POP CULTURE

Remembering the Queer Surrealism of David Lynch

Ben Kane

Music

Interview MUSIC

Austrian Electronic Duo LAIKKA: ‘It’s Important to Have a Second World Right Now’

Mila Edensor

LAIKKA is an Austrian electronic duo that injects the effervescence of queer culture into every performance. Pegged down to neither gender nor genre, they connect with their audience...

MUSIC

2025 Grammy Awards Made History: Black Women and Queer Artists

Dominik Böhler

HISTORY Interview MUSIC

Why Do Gay People Love Pop Music?

Gustavo Forcada

MUSIC

The Liberating Ecstasy of FKA Twigs’s “Eusexua”

Nick Johal

Pop Culture

POP CULTURE

Queer Britons Warm Up to Saunas and Watch the Royal Funeral

Sasha Brandt

When the queen died in 2022, one gay sauna live-streamed her funeral rather than its usual pornographic films in a profoundly moving show of respect. Hipsters get almost...

FASHION POP CULTURE

The Erotic Allure of the Nike Air Force 1 Sneakers

Sasha Brandt

MUSIC POP CULTURE PROFILE

Doechii, a Queer Rapper Changing the Game

Jude Jones

COMIC BOOKS POP CULTURE

Halloween as Gay Christmas

Răzvan Ion

Profiles

A glimpse in the lives of visionaries, artists and trailblazers shaping culture and creativity

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: Russia’s Prophet of Postmodern Protest and His Curious Death

Andrew Scott: A Love Story

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, Trans

Celebrate the Beauty of the Proletarian Body: @homocommunist

Shelley Saraniti and Her Journey as a Lesbian at Merrill Lynch

A Profile: Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s First Gay Prime Minister

Transsexual Masculinity, Captured Through Loren Cameron’s Forgotten Lens

Eugen Rădescu: A Polymath at the DJ Booth in Bucharest

Derren Brown: From Bullied Queer Boy to Mindreader Extraordinaire

Interview

FILM Interview

Ciprian Chiujdea, the New Wunderkind of European Cinema

In partnership with Bucharest Biennale

Răzvan Ion

Interview

What It’s Really Like Being a Trans Sex Worker in Germany

Fruzsina Lederer

Interview

Confessions of a Gay Priest on Hookup Apps

Jason Parham

BOOKS HISTORY Interview

Michel Foucault’s Legendary “Le Gai Savoir”, “Le Gai Pied”, and the Birth of Radical Queer Discourse

Sasha Brandt

Interview SPORT

Tiny Shorts, Big Statements: The Austrian Fearleaders’ Fight Against Conservative Masculinity

Mila Edensor

ART FILM Interview

“I Find a Spirituality through Art”: Artist Victoria Verseau on Transness, Friendship and Loss

Mila Edensor

BOOKS Interview

We Need the Queer Bookshop Now More Than Ever

Ione Gildroy

Interview MUSIC

Hyperpop, White Bisexuals, and Trans Girls Running the Joint: In Conversation With Musician htmljones

Mila Edensor

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ART

Painting: Clément Louis, portraits of a queer generation

Editorial Office

In his paintings, the Parisian artist Clément Louis enters the intimacy of his models. More or less-known figures of the LGBTQI+ community, without artifice. The two years of the pandemic were not in vain for Clément Louis. When he found himself, like 67 million French people, alone with himself as...

Letters to the Editor

My Chosen Family is a Form of Resistance

Nicole Lee

FASHION

Niohuru X: A Big Dick Girl’s Twisted Fashion Underworld

Jude Jones