If Pride last year was a celebration of marriage equality, then this year it was definitely about supporting one another and coming together to celebrate our colourful community. After the tragic events in Orlando there was a sense of duty to come out and celebrate our LGBT+ siblings. London’s famous Oxford Street was drenched in […]
Author: Yusuf Tamanna
An Interview With Loud House Inc
Loud House Inc have only been together since 2015 but each of the guys have known each other since they were young. They recently performed at UK Black Pride’s Pre Party and I caught up with them the morning after to find out who their biggest influences are and where they see themselves in the […]
Meet The Event Planners
June is Pride Month and I caught up with Bruno Montenegro and Naomi Leach, who are both Assistants to the Festival Curator for Pride in London, and I wanted to know what goes into planning something like London Pride. The event has been criticised in the past for not representing the true diversity of the […]
An Interview with Asifa Lahore
I recently had the chance to talk to Asifa Lahore, the UK’s first out and proud Muslim Drag Queen. Since the Channel 4 documentary, “Muslim Drag Queens” aired in August 2015, Asifa has become a voice for the South Asian LGBT community. We talked how his life has changed since the documentary, his thoughts on […]
Conflicted Between Who I Am And Who I Should Be
Despite the progress that society has made towards understanding and accepting the LGBT lifestyle, the South Asian community still struggles to embrace, or at the very least, acknowledge that there are people within their own community who identify as LGBT. Much of this comes from a culture of upholding the family’s honor and essentially worrying […]