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After the critically acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy award-nominated “How to Survive a Plague” and “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” David France has made an astonishing new documentary that ventures into even darker territory: the systematic persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya, where survival itself becomes an act...

FILM AND TV

Welcome to Chechnya: Documentary as Act of Resistance

Jackson Williams

After the critically acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy award-nominated “How to Survive a Plague” and “The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson,” David France has made an astonishing new documentary that ventures into even darker territory: the systematic persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya, where survival itself becomes an act of defiance. Though the film is now several years old, ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ arrives...

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Golden Globes 2026: No Surprises, But A Little Hope

Archie Marks

The annual awards-season staple – which, a few years ago, threatened to fade into irrelevance – was this year largely devoid of shock winners, political statements or talking points. Yet a common...

OPINION

Japan: Pornography, Prohibition, and the Failure of Education

Archie Marks

In Japan, the normalisation of pornography in popular culture bristles against the country’s restrictive, taboo attitude towards sex education. It curiously mirrors current crises occurring in the West. In 1989, about ninety...

FILM AND TV

‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Limits of Spectacle

Jackson Williams

Jacob Tierney’s adaptation of Rachel Reid’s novels has become a streaming sensation on both sides of the border, trading the ice-rink codes of professional hockey for something more carnal. But beneath the...

OPINION POLITICS Uncategorized

The Shooting of Renee Nicole Good

Raz Ion

On a bitter Minneapolis morning in January, beneath skies the colour of old steel, Renee Nicole Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in circumstances that have cleaved open,...

Trilogy of Queer-Focused Director Istvan Szabo Remastered

FILM AND TV

The Oscar Award-winning Trilogy of Hungarian Queer-Focused Director István Szabó was Remastered

Jackson Williams

In 1982, Mephisto, directed by István Szabó, became the first Hungarian film to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature. Forty-three years on, its return feels less like a rediscovery than...

ART

Queer Sexuality in Islamic Art

Sasha Brandt

In the hushed galleries of Oslo’s Nasjonalmuseet, a curatorial act of retrieval is underway—one that seeks to excavate what colonial shame and religious orthodoxy have long sought to bury. ‘Deviant Ornaments’, opening...

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OPINION TECHNOLOGY

Sex, AI, and the Race to Monetise Intimacy

Archie Marks and Raz Ion

How Silicon Valley discovered that desire—and isolation—can be monetised through artificial intelligence. On a Tuesday in mid-October, Sam Altman posted a message on social media that ignited a firestorm. The C.E.O. of OpenAI announced that ChatGPT would soon permit ‘erotica’ for verified adult users, framing the decision as part of...

OPINION POLITICS

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Long read

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Austria’s Most Beloved Humanitarian Became Its Most Shameful Secret

Sasha Brandt and Archie Marks

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT LONG READ

Three Years From Bratislava Gay Bar Attack and the Global Network of Hate

Raz Ion

LONG READ

Girl. Sometimes You Don’t Know Who You Are Until You Put On a Mask

Alexander Chee

Sometimes you don’t know who you are until you put on a mask. H A I R The year is 1990. The place is San Francisco, the Castro. It is Halloween night. I am in my friend John’s bathroom, alone in front of the mirror, wearing a black turtleneck and...

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Film and TV

FILM AND TV

Rosa von Praunheim’s Unfinished Revolution

Taylor Abbot

Rosa von Praunheim was born in a Latvian prison. A key figure of the New German Cinema movement, who made taboo-breaking films about queer life and scandalised the...

FILM AND TV

GAY45 Best Queer Films, Series and Documentaries of 2025

Jackson Williams

FILM AND TV

The Wire’s Omar Little is the Most Important Queer Character of the Century

Raz Ion

FILM AND TV

Screen Memory: Ten Films That Bear Witness to AIDS

Jackson Williams

Music

MUSIC

GAY45’s Best Music Albums of 2025

Archie Marks

Though it was tempting to assume a pessimistic outlook throughout 2025, these ten albums – all by queer-identifying artists – proved a useful, necessary balm. From escapist club...

MUSIC POP CULTURE

Eurovision’s Fracture Over Israel

Sasha Brandt

ART MUSIC

A Landmark Exhibition on Queer Modernism

Raz Ion

MUSIC

Queer Pop’s Political Fashion Theatre: The 2025 MTV Awards

Sasha Brandt

Pop Culture

OPINION POP CULTURE

Nemo’s Return: The Trophy That Exposed Eurovision

Archie Marks

Nemo, the Swiss winner of Eurovision in 2024, recently announced they’d return their trophy in solidarity with other countries’ boycott of the contest. The events have challenged Eurovision’s...

POP CULTURE

A Bitchy Gift Guide in Case You Needed One

Jackson Williams

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Jonathan Bailey is the First Gay Sexiest Man Alive, But You Wouldn’t Know It

Archie Marks

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What Does Taylor Swift Owe to Her Listeners?

Archie Marks

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Josephine Baker: The Black Dancer Who Defied Empires Inducted in Panthéon

The Naked Otherworlds of Chinese Photographer Ren Hang

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Doechii, a Queer Rapper Changing the Game

Andrew Scott: A Love Story

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Stanley Stellar’s Photographs and Kurt Prynne’s Jockstrap as History of Art

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