“I owe it to my younger self to shout it from the bloomin’ rooftops!” INTERVIEW BY HARRIET ARGENT, WORDS BY MARTINE HESS Just in time for Mental Health Awareness Week, LAKY has released her first single, Saving Me. In a powerful yet vulnerable voice, she addresses her personal struggles with mental health and hopes her [….]
“I can finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self” BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM Elliot Page, best known for his work in the film Juno and the Netflix series, The Umbrella Academy, shared a long letter on social media today confirming his pronouns and announcing that he is trans. Elliot addressed his [….]
Here’s some great things that happened in 2020 🌈 BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS Happy National Coming Out Day! We love to see that so many celebrities have come out this year, despite 2020 being one of the most difficult years for the LGBTQI community. Pride events all over the world have been cancelled due to lockdown [….]
An exclusive interview between LGBTQI activists Jayne Ozanne and Philip Baldwin BY PHILIP BALDWIN (@philipcbaldwin) National Coming Out Day takes place annually on 11 October. Over the years it has become one of my favourite LGBTQI awareness days. Each LGBTQI person is uniquely beautiful and has their own coming out story. I sat down with Jayne [….]
To mark National Coming Out Day, Signe, an employee at the world’s largest sperm bank, Cryos International, shares her memories of coming out BY CRYOS INTERNATIONAL “The thing is… I’m into girls.” The first time those words came over her lips was in 2013, and Signe was in the beginning of her 20s. While volunteering [….]
What hurdles has Coronavirus put on your coming out process? BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM As lockdown got in the way of so many elements of our lives, some of our biggest life events were put on hold – or even brought forward in some cases. One big life event that COVID-19 has no [….]
A limited edition artwork, that looks forward to when “coming out” is a non event, met with acceptance rather than “tolerance” BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS Artist, Facilitator and Producer Paula Varjack has announced a new fundraising project in aid of Dementia UK and Colours Youth Network. The title of the project is “Coming out to my [….]
