Category: Amplify

Shura discusses post lock-down anxiety, becoming a muscle mommy, 5-a-side with Leah Williamson and teasing her first album in six years. WORDS EMILY CAMERON PHOTOGRAPHY SOPHIE WILLIAMS DESIGN JACK ROWE When I get on my Zoom call with Shura I’m immediately mortified by my setup – a grainy MacBook camera, grim lighting and a messy bedroom in the background embarrassingly juxtaposed to Shura’s HD top-left camera angle and ring light. The perils of interviewing someone who became a streamer during the pandemic, I guess.  A lot has changed for Shura…

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The R&B singer-songwriter discusses the power of submission and not understanding the fans who still think he’s straight.  WORDS MIKELLE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY RYDER Earlier this year, Destin Conrad was in an Uber riding through New York City. He was lost in his own world, in his own problems, staring out the window. And then he saw her: a girl standing at the bus stop with the word “Submissive” stamped across the front of her hoodie in big bold letters.  “It brought me so much joy,” Conrad tells GAY TIMES. The…

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The musician opens up about sobriety, her latest relationship, and the excitement of heading on her first global headline tour.  WORDS ISOBEL VAN DYKE PHOTOGRAPHY JOHN JAY COVER DESIGN JACK ROWE When Doechii was 11-years-old she met with a pastor who prophesied her life. He told her that she would touch millions of people with her gifts, she just didn’t yet know what those gifts were. 15 years and 10 million monthly listeners later, her abilities have become clear – the prophecy fulfilled. “I was anointed that day,” she explains.…

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The cult musician talks queerbaiting, coming out and being “the original gay boy on Tumblr”. WORDS MIKELLE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND STYLIST IRIS LUZ LIGHTING ALEX RADOTA     Babymorocco is sexy. For him, that’s a forgone conclusion. He wields that attribute, actually. He’s got a big mass in general –  “big thighs and a big butt” as he explains to me over Zoom. Later, he gives me a few flexing poses to illustrate a point he’s making. Becoming conscious of – and manipulating – that appeal started when he launched…

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The perreo pop princess and bicon discusses her ‘Fashion Freak’ aesthetic, representing the queer community and flipping reggaeton’s gender script. WORDS MIKELLE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY ADAM MARTIN STYLIST SHAHAN ASSADOURIAN HMUA ISABELLA LOVESTORY COVER DESIGN JACK ROWE   Isabella Lovestory is a creation all her own. The Honduran-born artist who spent time in the United States and then Montreal growing up, has fashioned herself into a pop star of her own imagining. After initially idolising the likes of Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani, Lovestory has built her own image as an…

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