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“Y’all know I’m going boysober for a year”: how queer Gen Z rebranded celibacy

March 26, 2024 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

It’s no secret that LGBTQIA+ youth are ditching dating apps. Now, it looks like they’re leaving behind hook-up culture and going “sober”, aka celibate, when it comes to sex and relationships. We ask LGBTQIA+ Gen Zers why. WORDS BY ZOYA RAZA-SHEIKH HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN If you didn’t know, we’re in a “sex recession”. Off the back of a pandemic where lockdown restrictions effectively criminalised casual sex, few people would be surprised that attitudes towards relationships and intimacy have changed. Throughout the 2020s, headlines were splashed across the internet…

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If the economy is tanking, why not dress like a dominatrix for the office?

February 22, 2024 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

Gen Z killed office casual. Here’s how queer, London designers are reinventing work clothes. WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF FASHION EAST With the economic blues hitting home and our hard-grafted Vinted sales no longer safe from the tax man, the euphoria around fashion might feel like it’s on the way out. But even the 2008 financial crash couldn’t stop London Fashion Week and so, this February, LFW reared its subversive, stylish head once more. And, okay, we were kind of gagged! From Dilara Findikoglu’s ode to the divine…

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We’re here, we’re queer: Here’s what Gen Z really think about the term ‘queer’

March 7, 2023 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

The post We’re here, we’re queer: Here’s what Gen Z really think about the term ‘queer’ appeared first on GAY TIMES. Go to Source Author: Zoya Raza-Sheikh

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Gen Z twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ+ in England and Wales, census shows

January 26, 2023 admingay, lgbt, lgbt articles, lgbt news, lgbtq

Those aged between 16 and 24 are more than twice as likely to identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community compared with the general population, according to new data from the 2021 Census. The data, which was released on 6 January, marks the first time that figures on sexual orientation and gender identity have been included in the census, with 92.5% of the population answering the question on sexual orientation and 94% responding to the gender identity question one. A total of 1.5 million respondents (3.2% of the population…