When I log into my Zoom call with Birk Thomassen, I am met with an empty screen. All I can...
When it comes to prominent gay photographers, some have distinguished themselves by pushing the boundaries of sexual expression (Robert Mapplethorpe,...
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...
In this retrospective on the life of English music label PC Music following the announcement that it is to stop...
By Dominik Böhler Demna Gvasalia (originally from post-soviet Georgia), the Balenciaga creative director has proven himself one of the most...
By Miruna Tiberiu Experimental filmmaker Jules Rosskam’s latest documentary Desire Lines (2024) delves into the oft-forgotten histories of transmasc communities in queer spaces. Genre-bending, the film weaves fictionalised stories with archival material and present-day interviews that forge an American transmasc community across time. Following Desire Lines’ UK premiere at...
This feature was penned in 2022 for the Euronews website. Certain data has been refreshed and verified in 2024. Regrettably,...
The Chevalier d’Eon is an idiosyncratic figure in French history: a powerful spy and statesman who became an overnight celebrity after leaking confidential state documents to the British public, he would be exiled from France for a decade for his intransigence, only to return to France as a pious Christian woman.
Didier Eribon is one of France’s leading sociologists and queer theorists, most famous for his 1991 autobiography of Michel Foucault and his pioneering 1999 Refléxions sur la question gay. In 2009, he published the autofictional memoir Retours à Reims in which, for the first time in his public career, Eribon...
Derren Brown entered the world of magic and illusion by sheer coincidence. Growing up in Purley in the 1970s –...
