Queer engineer and founder and president of Space Pride, Franco Labia is on a mission to diversify the space industry, which as it stands is an ‘elite old boys club’ with a serious lack of any visible LGBTQIA+ community. We got in touch with Franco to discuss Space Pride – an international charity dedicated to celebrating […]
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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 […]