Features & Longread OPINION: Transitioning with Sugar: Trans exclusionary feminism by Ms Sugar Swan When I came out very publicly as trans, I was flooded with love and respect and within the first month of ‘being out’ half a dozen people had contacted me and come out as trans. Some of them I knew from Brighton, some I didn’t, but they all had the same message for me: “Thank you for talking about t By Ms Sugar Swan • 4 min read
Community News OPINION PIECE: Time for Trans people to come out of the shadows Over the past few years transgender visibility has improved greatly with a number of trans people becoming very public through the media and I was even featured on Match of the Day’s Premier League football show recently. By Sophie Cook • 4 min read
Features & Longread FEATURE: Transitioning with Sugar: Hair today – gone tomorrow I remember a time in the late 1980’s when I was in school and my hair was long and my mother said I needed it cut for the school photographs. Obviously, being a little trans girl I didn’t want my hair cut, so, in an act of defiance, whilst my father who took me to the barbers was outside having a ci By Ms Sugar Swan • 5 min read
In The South OPINION: Is this language really acceptable? I feel incredibly privileged to live in a country where such action is both possible and spontaneous. I know there are many sensible arguments including some made by those close to me, that such action does little, perhaps it is even a waste of time. I disagree. When the democratic election protest By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 3 min read
In The South OPINION: Dad & Daddy on family love The dictionary tells us that love is ‘a strong feeling of affection’ and ‘a great interest and pleasure in something’. In our house, especially for our daughter, love is, at times, a shield, a barrier and also a weapon. Often when she allows herself to feel safe, loved and wanted, she will quickly d By Contributor • 4 min read
Community News OPINION: Sam Trans Man on love When it comes to writing this column, I’m usually awash with ideas until I actually put pen to paper, at which point all those brilliant soundbites and gems of wisdom that have been popping into my head for weeks suddenly seem to desert me! I’m becoming increasingly familiar with writers’ block, and By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Features & Longread OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts on love Love is excitement. Love is exhaustion. Love is daily. Love by the hour. Love is always. Love is never. Love at your leisure. Love that’s a pleasure. Love is now. Love is then. Love is today. Love is tomorrow. Love is never again. Love is light. Love is dark. Love is air. Love is fire. Love is creat By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 4 min read
Community News OPINION: Male Icons – Sam Trans Man Dr Samuel Hall on why 2016 wasn’t all bad and where we need to be if we want to change the world. By Sam Hall • 4 min read
Features & Longread OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts: My gay male Icons are my friends and loves 2017 begins inauspiciously for the international LGBT+ community. As the inauguration of the US President Elect looms, even those parts of the world whom in recent years have made significant parallel political and social progress, face an ominous future as rumours of rolled back legislation abound. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 5 min read
In The South OPINION: Pride without hate Homophobia is commonly accepted as an inevitable part of society, much like there is acceptance of continued racism. It is human nature to have hate as much as it is to love! Over the years I’ve suffered from verbal attacks; when I lived in Kemp Town an old man once told me I was a “queer bastard” a By Joseph Richard Tanner • 6 min read
Health OPINION: Careless talk costs lives Gscene columnist Çraig Hanlon-Smith urges NHS England to prescribe PreEP now to save lives, then engage in debate about behaviour tomorrow. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 4 min read
In The South OPINION: True Blue and those ‘gay cure’ skeletons in the closets of the Tory leadership candidates The devils are in the detail as Craig Hanlon-Smith questions if the next Prime Minister should be decided by the Tory blue rinse brigade rather than the country at large. Any relief at the early withdrawal of Stephen Crabb, a front bench Government minister with links to a Christian organisation tha By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 6 min read
