• Holby City’s Sapphic Surgeons

    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...
  • Love, Simon: The rom-com we definitely knew we needed

    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 World Cup in Russia – Football’s step backwards for LGBT rights

    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...
  • Imagine Dragons and K.Flay @ Genting Arena, Birmingham

    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...
  • Black Mirror: San Junipero’s Match Made in Heaven

    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...
  • London Korean Film Festival: In Between Seasons

    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...
  • The Sexual Offences Act: 50 Years On

    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...