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We’re living in a more queer era than ever before. That may sound like a lofty statement, but a recent survey by LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall and Ipsos backs it up. The new poll revealed that only 66% of people in the UK identify as being exclusively attracted to people of the opposite sex. There have been similar studies elsewhere in the world that prove a similar trend, revealing a modern era where people are feeling more open and comfortable to be themselves. Unsurprisingly it’s led by Gen Z and their willingness to be more open-minded in their approach to sexual orientation and gender identity. Considering we’re living in this fastly growing queer era, it’s no surprise that our media is taking greater strides to represent this. Film and TV in…

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With LGBTQ+ representation still scarce on the big screen, My Policeman’s status as one of the most anticipated - and dissected, we should add-films of the year was inevitable. (It also stars Harry Styles, very famous singer, so there’s that too.) Based on Bethan Roberts’ lauded gay novel of the same name set in 1950s Brighton, the poignant drama follows the heartwreching story of Tom (Styles), a closeted police officer who marries a schoolteacher called Marion (Emma Corrin) rather than his true love Patrick (David Dawson) due to the era’s social constraints. Also starring Linus Roache, Gina McKee and Rupert Everett as their older counterparts, respectively, My Policeman made history when the cast were announced as the collective winners of the ‘Actor Award’ at TIFF Tribute, marking the first time…

“I fucking screamed with happiness,” Omar Rudberg says of the scandalous - let’s repeat that for dramatic effect, scandalous - storylines in the long-awaited second season of Young Royals, “like, give me some drama!” The championed Swedish series, following the forbidden romance between his character Simon and the fictional Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (Edvin Ryding), will undeniably cause pandemonium within the fandom when it makes its grand return on Netflix next month with the aforementioned characters engaging in - as Edvin puts it - “problematic” and - as Omar puts it - ‘indefensible’ storylines that result in an even more confident and outrageous new instalment for the hit drama. “I was pretty anxious beforehand because I had a long period of time where I didn't understand why [Wilhelm] did what he…

No genre across film and television is as camp as horror. Both the origins of the genre - and those viewing it - have shaped how it presents itself today. This link has been long-established. Horror was born out of the 19th century Gothic era, a time woven with stories of queer-coded monsters with sprawling exposed guts and blood-thirsty vampires. From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Dracula to the 1936 film the Dracula’s Daughter, the cornerstones of supernatural media have frequently included LGBTQ+ undertones. “The lesbian vampire as a queer figure is very emblematic of the age in which the stories about her are taking place,” Annie Rose Malamet, a lesbian vampire expert, writer, and podcast host tells GAY TIMES. “For example, in the 30s, a lot of the focus was…