Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2023 i GAY TIMES

Like all of us, I was left without words and, at times, feeling completely useless this past month. Shocked, angry, saddened and frustrated that a young girl could lose her life in such tragic and horrific circumstances. Brianna Ghey had her whole life ahead of her, taken away before her time and mere months after she began to live freely and openly as her true self. The motive of her murder is under criminal investigation, but it would be dangerous not to acknowledge that the violence she undeservedly faced took place during this current hostile climate towards trans+ people. The mainstream media failed her. The UK government failed her. Society at large failed her. While I was left shocked, it pains me to reconcile that I wasn’t surprised. When trans+…

Herbar Face Oil £67 March 3rd brings us National Day of Unplugging. A time to connect with friends, family and colleagues… face to face… like in real life… just stop scrolling on TikTok for a second. Take this day to carve out some precious time for yourself and breathe in some fresh air. It’s a chance to be mindful of unplugging, relaxing, reflecting and unwinding. However, if the outdoors really isn’t for you, why not use this day for some well deserved TLC. Open your blinds, read a book and get your favourite pjs on. Our suggestion to help you on your special pamper day comes from Herbar, the ​fungi and adaptogenic powered beauty brand, and their face oil. Packed with mushroom extracts that work to train and strengthen skin…

Fact incoming: “Nobody wants to watch straight people talk anymore!” This extremely correct statement hails from Jasmin Savoy Brown, one of pop culture’s most compelling new stars thanks to roles in Showtime’s survival drama Yellowjackets and Wes Craven’s lauded slasher series Scream. For her performance as Mindy Meeks in the latter’s fifth film, Brown made history as the first openly queer character to try and escape the terror of Ghostface. As a “proud” Black woman of the LGBTQ+ experience, Brown tells GAY TIMES that her “favourite part” of being a performer is being able to “represent and interact with” her respective communities. “It means everything to me,” she says. “To be one of the lucky few that gets to debut something and be the beginning of the wave is really…

“I’m not known for being subtle,” laughs Adam Lambert, the former American Idol (runner-up) who has been enraging right-wingers with “I'm his unabashed queerness years before Lil Nas X straddled Satan in thigh-high stiletto boots and Sam Smith performed a sexually-charged cabaret number at “The Body Shop” with Kim Petras. It’s difficult - near damn impossible - to envision the current landscape of queer music without Adam’s signature glam-rock aesthetic, vocal command and LGBTQ+ activism. After (not) winning the aforementioned music competition, he blazed a much-needed rainbow trail for queer musicians when he historically became the first openly gay artist to top the US album charts, earned a Grammy nomination for his top 10 smasher Whataya Want from Me and had conservative viewers seething - woo! - when he kissed…

As part of our advocacy for LGBTQ+ liberation, we must include everyone. Our advocacy for greater freedoms and acceptance begins with all in mind. From the tragic death of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey to the venomous online fear mongering directed towards the trans+ community, we have seen abuse play out in real time. And, as anti-trans communities seek to whip up a frenzy of misogynistic hate, their latest tactic has been to leverage the “support” of cis women. Through their misinformed conspiracy, a harmful narrative has prevailed suggesting that cis women not only fear trans people, specifically trans+ women, but deem them as a threat. Here, at GAY TIMES, we don’t stand for intolerance or threatened harm to our communities. Instead, our life-long mission has been, and always will be, to…