Community Michael James sticks it to The Man : Covid Lockdown reflections. Michael James sticks it to The Man : Covid Lockdown reflections. By Contributor • 6 min read
Fundraising News THT, NAT & PrEPster respond to budget cut to PrEP in England The Department of Health tells local authorities in England that the budget for rolling out HIV prevention pill PrEP has been cut by £5m. By Contributor • 2 min read
Business News Our silence murders them twice On Sunday three members of the LGBTQ communities were murdered in a park in Reading. What are their names? Why don’t you know? By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 4 min read
Community The Gscene Readers´ ‘Sex in Lockdown’ Survey for all LGBTQ+ people The Gscene Readers´ ‘Sex in Lockdown’ Survey for all LGBTQ+ people By Scene Editorial Team • 2 min read
Community News OPINION: Sam Trans Man Dr Samuel Hall on the gender binary and how it’s the final hurdle in the battle for equality. I recently glimpsed the potential to educate people about trans issues via this publication and its readership through a different lens. I’ve been writing for Gscene for almost five years, and although it o By Sam Hall • 4 min read
In The South OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts In its infancy, Big Brother was billed as a social experiment, originally a fascinating and nation gripping revolution in reality television. Not entirely due to its shift onto the schedule of Richard Desmond’s Channel 5, in more recent years it has descended into a desperate opportunity to shock an By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 5 min read
Community News OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar: Ms Sugar Swan asks what the LGBTQIA community means to her This month’s Gscene theme is community and having lived, worked and volunteered within the local queer community for the last 17 years I have very mixed feelings about the community and what it means to me. By Ms Sugar Swan • 5 min read
In The South OPINION: Wall’s Words So apparently the new word for a gay uncle is guncle. Am I happy to be called guncle? Well in short, no-ish. I’m gay and I’m an uncle but the word guncle makes me sound somehow strange. By Contributor • 2 min read
In The South OPINION: A patchwork family by Michael Steinhage Desmond at work is one of those butter knife blunt people, somewhere on the high-functioning spectrum many say, but I’ve always found him refreshingly direct and honest. A valid question, is it not? Most people want to ask. Most people are too polite to. But most people want to know whether I had se By Michael Steinhage • 2 min read
Features & Longread OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar – TNG – The Next Generation Firstly, I need to apologise to my regular readers. I’m sorry there was no January column from me, I’ll be open and honest as to why. A lot of people look up to me and I get a lot of positive feedback from my work, other trans people are glad to see trans representation in Gscene and strangers get i By Ms Sugar Swan • 4 min read
In The South OPINION: Wall’s Words by Mike Wall So apparently the new word for a gay uncle is guncle. Am I happy to be called guncle? Well in short, no-ish. I’m gay and I’m an uncle but the word guncle makes me sound somehow strange. By Contributor • 2 min read
In The South OPINION: I have a phobia by Ray A-J Okay, so I have a phobia. I’m not the only person either. Around 6-8% of people in the West suffer from the excruciatingly debilitating hold of a phobia. Previously we established the unrelenting pain and suffocating effect an intense fear can have on its victim, and I think it’s only fair that the By Ray A-J • 4 min read
