LGBTQ+ community

Pride in London’s ‘Misjudged’ Poster Campaign

Pride in London’s promotional campaign for the 2017 pride parade claims that #LoveHappensHere. As it turns out, something else happens here as well; completely pandering to a straight audience, framing LGBTQ+ people as fun novelties and completely undermining the community’s efforts to combat casual homophobia. ‘Being homophobic is sooo gay.’ …

The Other L Word

The first time I ever kissed another girl in a bar I saw a bright light. Unfortunately it wasn’t a visual representation of my own lesbianism dawning upon me; they were camera flashes. Men had decided that my expression of my sexuality needed to be documented for their own future …