Queer dance-music duo NIMMO are the latest musicians to show their support for the UK’s grassroots music sector by becoming patrons of Music Venue Trust. Bringing a dose of future-pop to the ever-expanding list of advocates, NIMMO join Sir Paul McCartney, Tom Grennan, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Nova Twins, Frank Turner, Tim Burgess and more as representatives of the grassroots scene. […]
Nimmo Become Patrons of Music Venue Trust
LGBT+ History Month 2023: Behind the Lens
Claiming our past – Celebrating our present – Creating our future The LGBT+ History Month 2023 #BehindTheLens celebrates LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema and film from behind the lens. Directors, cinematographers, screenwriters, producers, animators, costume designers, special effects, make-up artists, lighting directors, musicians, choreographers and beyond. Here, lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk have selected four queer icons who perfectly […]
Zoe Lyons Interview – “A Lot of Funny”
Host of BBC2’s Lightning and Live at the Apollo, Zoe Lyons is going to be pretty much ubiquitous in 2023. Freshly announced as a contestant in C4’s next series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, she’ll be spending the next couple of months touring the UK with her latest stand-up show; The Bald Ambition Tour […]
COLURi – OWN IT Campaign
Colourful jewellery brand COLURi, presents their new campaign OWN IT – a celebration of empowerment, attitude and moments that define us. Relatable and captivating, the sequence of feel-good scenes embodies COLURi’s feminist values by playfully questioning the perceptions of women in today’s world. OWN IT highlights universally shared experiences to create powerful emotional connection between […]
BFI Flare
“With a little imagination, you can change people’s lives.” BFI Flare – the London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival – is renowned for screening the best in contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema from around the globe. Ahead of this year’s event taking place on 15-26 March, we were lucky enough to speak with programmer Brian Robinson who takes us behind […]
Fynest Reads: Gay’s The Word
Gay’s The Word is the UK’s oldest LGBT bookshop and a touchstone for the broader LGBT community. The bookshop was set up in January 1979 by a group of gay socialists as a community space where all profits were funnelled back into the business. This ethos continues today with shelves bursting with books and the […]
Fyne Times Meets: Queen Aerosol
Charlie Carter (he/she/they) – otherwise known as Queen Aerosol on social media – is a 22-year-old gender-fluid queer artist from the UK. First gaining media attention for their ‘bro to beauty’ makeup transformations, Charlie now has more than 180,000 followers and four million Likes on TikTok, and it just keeps growing. We got in touch […]
British photographer wins Global SinoPhoto Awards with ‘time-capsule’ Wuhan image
A photo, taken by a Bristol photographer, which depicts Hankou Bund, a popular park in Wuhan, China, is an inadvertent time-capsule image of a city which will forever be linked to the Covid-19 outbreak, and is the overall winner of the Betser Prize in an international photo competition celebrating Chinese culture. The image, which also […]
Is That Right, FIFA? Campaign
Qatar is currently hosting one of the biggest sports events – FIFA World Cup 2022. The controversial location of the most watched football tournament in the world is the reason for the Bulgarian human rights Foundation GLAS and the creative agency proof. to launch a campaign that shines a light on several of the issues […]
LGBT+ History Month Theme Launch 2023
We invite you to the online theme launch for LGBT+ History Month 2023: #BehindTheLens At 6.30pm (GMT) on Thursday 24th November we will be beaming to you live from the Cinema Museum in London. Please register here: www.eventbrite.com We are joined by the co-founder of LGBT+ History Month Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders and Stuart Milk from the Harvey Milk Foundation, alongside a […]