“Having met queer Singaporeans, I have witnessed their own survival and relative comfort” BY YAIZA CANOPOLI It started as a normal weekday when I was picking up my girlfriend for her lunch break, and ended as the day I made a life changing decision… I’m moving to Singapore. She went into the question hesitantly and, [….]
“Performance anxiety makes up a great percentage of bedroom confidence for women loving women” BY BIRMINGHAM LGBT Confidence in the bedroom can have a massive effect on self-esteem and sexual wellbeing – especially when it comes to lesbian and bisexual women. Performance under (or over) the sheets is something that is discussed so frequently within [….]
LGBT self-help coach Gina Battye shares her wisdom BY GINA BATTYE Is your partner’s friendship with an ex creating tension in your relationship? When you voice your concerns over the closeness of their friendship, your partner insists there is nothing to worry about. And you know that, deep down. The reality is, they were in [….]
“The years passed. You found yourself a boyfriend and I was no closer to telling you how I really felt” BY REEM It was the summer of 2000 when I met you. We were both kids, trying to find a place to fit in amongst the chaos of school life. A time when everything is [….]
Or, as Anisa Easterbrook’s dad says, “Don’t put your umbrella up before it rains”. BY ANISA EASTERBROOK Paranoia or jealousy in relationships can be a nightmare for everyone involved. The majority of us will have experienced it at least once in our lives with a partner. It can consume your every thought and send you [….]
Love may move mountains and always win, but love doesn’t trump compatibility BY KIM BAKER Of all the lessons I’ve learned in love, the hardest and perhaps most important was this: loving someone doesn’t equal being compatible. In one long term relationship, I ignored signs of our incompatibility early on. She was broody and cynical, [….]
