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Changing Rooms Is The Most Iconic TV Show In British History

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Remembering The Noughties – That Never-Ending Season Of Bad Taste

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Style Obituary: Bench.

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Style Obituary: Punkyfish, Forever In Our Hearts

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Punkyfish gal never dies. Strong of spirit, true of mind, you were the gal every other gal wanted to be.

by Tom Rasmussen

Style Obituary: Miss Sixty, Gone But Never Forgotten

At high school there was one very simple way to discern who was in and who was a desperate loser: the Miss Sixty belt. This low-slung, hip-exposing,

by Tom Rasmussen

Style Obituary: Tammy Girl

Tammy Girl: the younger sister of Etam, the pre-teen treasure trove where glitter glue and teeny-tiny butterfly clips and stretchy chokers and those

by Tom Rasmussen

Style Obituary: Jane Norman

"All I want to do is be shiny and bobble the moment you wear me," a Jane Norman dress once said of its purpose in life. A fashion phenomenon, Jane

by Tom Rasmussen

Everything I Wish I’d Learned About Gay Sex In High School

When I was fourteen I had gay sex for the first time. There, on his Star Wars sheets, we had an hour between the school bell and his parents getting

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At Last, Authentic Stock Images Of The Trans Community's Div...

The old saying “A picture paints a thousand words” is a thorny one for minority communities. So often, images supposed to represent us are

by Tom Rasmussen

An Ode To The Women Formerly Known As 'Fag Hags'

I remember when I met my best friend; let’s call her Emily. I was a Northern Gay Boy from a pretty rough state school and had been branded a faggot

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How To Tackle Loneliness If You're LGBTQIA+

There are few parts of the human condition as misunderstood as loneliness. People find it hard to talk about, and harder to hear. By definition,

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Explaining My 'They' Pronoun To My Parents

“We’ll try really hard, but we might get it wrong.” Last week, my parents arrived in London to watch my drag show. I’ve been out of the closet

by Tom Rasmussen

Child Stars, Baby Kardashian & Woody Allen. It's Been A Stra...

Welcome to Famous Last Words, our weekly column on what's been going on in the world of pop culture. This week we speculate on names for the new

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Meryl Streep Nominated For 5 Times More Oscars...

Welcome to Famous Last Words, our weekly column on what's been going on in the world of pop culture. This week we look at the dream that was the Golden

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Japanese Police Want To Talk To Logan Paul

Welcome to Famous Last Words, our weekly column on what's been going on in the world of pop culture. This week we look at Logan Paul's atrocious

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Lewis Hamilton's Nephew & The Missing Kar...

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except Lewis Hamilton’s fragile masculinity. “Boys

by Tom Rasmussen

Familial Rejection & Abuse: The Heartbreaking Stories Of Homeless...

“Will you buy us a cup of tea?” my friend Patrick [not real name] asks as we walk down Berwick Street in Soho. “Three sugars.” Patrick is 52

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Matt Damon Messes Up One Job Men Were Given

Men, you had one job. One job! And Matt Damon just got fired. In a truly exquisite display of just how tone-deaf some white dudes can be, Damon made

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Meryl Streep Takes Control, Bella Hadid Gets P...

As a gender non-binary musician, I have to say I have never met a man in a band who didn’t think they were better at music than me. So this week I was

by Tom Rasmussen

Famous Last Words: Madonna & Britney's Toxic Tribute

So it’s my lifelong dream to create a word. A word that becomes so ubiquitous the OED has no choice but to put it in the dictionary. And I’ve

by Tom Rasmussen

Entertainment News

Famous Last Words: Meghan Markle Sells Coat, Justin Timberlake St...

This week, the impeccable Tom Rasmussen has his say on Angela Lansbury, Justin Timberlake's rabbit-thieving past and some wedding that people seem

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What It Feels Like Going To Uni If You’re Working Class

Someone told me the other day that trying to define what the terms ‘middle class’ and ‘working class’ mean is the most categorically middle class,

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50 Years Since The Decriminalisation Of Homosexuality, What Has A...

On the 27th of this month half a century ago, the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 reached Royal Assent. It was the first time since 1533, when Henry VIII

by Tom Rasmussen

The Great Big Pride Debate

‘Pride in London’ has become somewhat of a joke among many members of the LGBTQIA+ community in recent years. There was the UKIP fiasco of two years

by Tom Rasmussen

Why I’m Not Changing My Body For The Summer

I’ve been fat my whole life. I was a fat baby, a fat kid, a fat adolescent, a fatter teen, a fat twenty-something, and I’m fat right now. I have been

by Tom Rasmussen

How Being Queer-Bashed Changed The Way I Dress

I have been attacked for who I am my entire life. Whether verbal slurs, the sting of a rock on my back in the high school courtyard, or the humiliation

by Tom Rasmussen

How Buffy The Vampire Slayer Made Losers Cool

I use the term 'losers' lightly but, looking back to over 15 years ago – pre-WiFi or the invention of social media, the ease of Netflix and the youth

by Tom Rasmussen

I Gave Up Music For A Week & Here's What Happened

In a 2012 study, Audio-Technica estimated that the average person listens to 13 years' worth of music in their lifetime. I am one of those people. Every

by Tom Rasmussen

I Quit Left-Wing Media For A Week & Here's What Happened

It’s February: perhaps the most disappointing month of the year. The month where we relent on all the totally unachievable things we’d planned to

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Sex & Relationships

How 5 People Manage Their Open Relationships

Open relationships, to me, have always seemed like a minefield of hurt. I spent my early teens educating myself on relationships using the ultimate gal's

by Tom Rasmussen