LGBT

Happy Pride Month. At the DIVA Awards 2018, an award ceremony run by DIVA magazine celebrating LGBT+ women, Holby City won the LGBT Series or Storyline award, beating Netflix mega-hit Orange is the New Black and Canadian web-series Carmilla. The winning storyline was simple: two middle-aged women fell in...

As a teenager, I whiled away many an hour watching high school romcoms with my friends, my mum and by myself – my favourite being The Breakfast Club. I’d laugh, cheer, yell and cry my way through the romanticised secondhand embarrassment of adolescence over and over again… but something...

The football World Cup is set to kick off in Russia this year, held in a country which openly opposes homosexuals and other ethnic backgrounds. FIFA has handed football’s most illustrious cup to a country in which there is no guarantee over fan safety and the preservation of human...

Back on another world tour, the alternative/ indie rock legends Imagine Dragons bring their third album ‘Evolve’ (2017) to sold out arenas across the UK. Supported by the genre-defying K.Flay, both artists create an unforgettable night. With her iconic, almost breathy vocals, K.Flay showcased her ability to instantly transition...

Double-Emmy-Award-Winning San Junipero follows a party girl determined to live life to the fullest without any emotional attachments – that is until she falls for another girl. Its writer, Charlie Brooker, is renowned for his dark story-telling, but San Junipero unexpectedly became one of the most uplifting queer love...

An Indie drama about damaged relationships and the twin processes of forgiveness and repentance, In Between Seasons boasts an absorbing plot and a solid cast. While it is unnecessarily slow in some parts, the feelings of warmth and affirmation it leaves us with are worth the wait. In Between...

It can be hard to believe that it was only 50 years ago that homosexual acts were decriminalised in England and Wales: this July marked the anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act. On this anniversary, Impact looks back at the lives of four men who altered the way gay...