Weight loss, dysphoria and the quest for ‘gendered’ bodies

‘I’m often made to feel like a monster’: From weight restrictions on gender-affirming care to punishingly high standards about desirability, trans people are facing an uphill battle not to hate their bodies

Jun 08, 2026

Jake Hall

Film & TV

Enzo, a sun-soaked tale of passion, privilege and DL trade

When filmmaker Laurent Cantet passed away before production began on his final film, 120 BPM director Robin Campillo took over the project – and created a ‘temple’ to his late friend

May 28, 2026

Nick Chen

Life & Culture

Douglas Stuart: ‘Homosexuality and faith have been a struggle all my life’

The Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo speaks to Dazed about being orphaned at 16, queer life in the Outer Hebrides, and his heart-rending new novel John of John

May 22, 2026

Alim Kheraj

Film & TV

John Waters would love this film about a horny, haunted hoover

Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke speaks to Dazed about his new film, a queer comedy about the oppression of Thailand’s working class

May 07, 2026

Nick Chen

Art & Photography

In pictures: The intimate artefacts left behind in cruising spots

Shot in locations across Europe, the latest project from Smut Press assembles items found within the detritus of cruising spaces into an archive of ephemeral queer spaces

Apr 24, 2026

Tiarna

Life & Culture

New novel Fruit Fly plumbs the depths of creative desperation

Josh Silver’s debut adult novel follows a has-been literary sensation who hijacks a young drug addict’s life story in a bid to pen another bestseller

Apr 17, 2026

Sarah Moroz

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Music

Queer nightlife is thriving in Bucharest’s abandoned backrooms

Waves Penetrate Me Fiercely, a new short film by Geo Aghinea, reveals a network of queer partygoers in abandoned Soviet-era buildings across the Romanian capital

Apr 10, 2026

Solomon PM

Art & Photography

Slava Mogutin’s photos explore desire, vulnerability, sex and power

Ahead of a major new retrospective, Analog Human Studies: 25 Years of Photography, we spoke with the acclaimed queer photographer about sex, power, and dissident art

Apr 08, 2026

James Greig

Life & Culture

This genre-bending trans novel holds a dark mirror to reality

We spoke with authors Charlie Markbreiter and Maz Murray about trans genre fiction, Justin Beiber, how optimisation cultured developed into eugenics, and more

Mar 26, 2026

Sam Moore

Art & Photography

These sensual images capture queer London up close

Exhalation, a new photography exhibition by Alexander Ekholm, explores the ‘the power of softness’ and the body as a form of communication

Mar 19, 2026

James Greig

Beauty

Photos from the floor of Rio’s transmasc ballroom scene

Rio de Janeiro’s transmasculine health collective TransMaromba hosted a ball-meets-gym convention, captured here by photographer Roma Joana

Mar 11, 2026

Tiarna

Life & Culture

The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds

The High Court has rejected a legal challenge attempting to ban trans people from Hampstead Heath’s single-sex ponds. Good Law Project speaks to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement to keep the ponds inclusive

Feb 05, 2026

Alice McCool

Life & Culture

Why are so many young people going ‘no contact’ with their parents?

Brooklyn Beckham is no outlier – many others are estranged from their families, too. Here, we speak to those who cut the cord with their toxic relatives

Feb 05, 2026

Serena Smith

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Film & TV

Getting to the bottom of the Heated Rivalry discourse

The erotic drama, which follows the heady relationship between two closeted hockey players, has catalysed new discussions about queerbaiting and the fetishisation of gay men

Jan 14, 2026

Eli Cugini

Art & Photography

This exhibition uncovers the queer history of Islamic art

‘The ways we express queerness might be more poetic and less obvious’: We speak with the team behind Deviant Ornaments, a new exhibition which brings together decorative art, textiles, and futuristic dildos

Jan 09, 2026

James Greig