DIVA

DIVA is Europe’s best-selling and most authoritative lifestyle magazine for lesbian and bisexual women. Our aim is simple – to bring you the latest trends and talent at the cutting edge of popular lesbian and bisexual culture. Each month you will find in-depth interviews, engaging features and photo shoots with some of the most influential and admired women from our community. On top of this we cram in page-after-page of news, opinion, entertainment and the arts, humour, travel and much more besides. The digital edition packs an extra special punch - look out for exclusive photo galleries and behind-the-scenes videos that you won’t find anywhere else. Whether you prefer to read DIVA on a smartphone, tablet or laptop you’ll never have to leave home without it. For best results, download when connected to a wifi hotspot. With so much going on, it’s no surprise that DIVA magazine is THE trusted source of information for lesbian and bisexual women the world over.

TEAMDIVA • WE’RE STILL BUZZING FROM THE LIONESSES’ WIN AT THE EUROS! BUT JUST HOW SPORTY IS #TEAMDIVA?

Editor’s letter

A letter from our publisher

Connect with your COMMUNITY

5 quotes from awesome bicons • Happy Bisexual Awareness Week, DIVAs!

Queer up your student room • Getreadyforthe gayestFreshers’ Week ever

TikTokers to follow this month

YOUR SHOUT

Get the look Gillian Anderson • WHY NOT TAKE SOME STYLE INSPO FROM THIS BICON?

DIVA Meets: Butch, Please! • GET ACQUAINTED WITH THIS PIONEERING NIGHT’S FOUNDER

Running queer, running free • How running helped ELEANOR NOYCE embrace her identity

My existence is no longer up for debate • NIC CROSARA refuses to continue being a talking point

The kids will be alright, eventually

A League OF HER OWN • ACTOR AND CREATOR ABBI JACOBSON OPENS UP ABOUT ADAPTING THE ICONIC 1992 FILM FOR TV AND THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER REPRESENTATION

Can queer friendship be even more powerful than romantic love? • HOW OUR CHOSEN FAMILY SHAPES US

Write it on your skin • WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE TATTOOS THAT SCREAM “QUEER” TO THE WORLD?

This is how queer folks are dating now • FROM BEING CONSCIOUSLY SINGLE, TO THE RISE OF MINDFUL DATING, DIVA INVESTIGATES THE LATEST TRENDS TAKING THE LGBTQI COMMUNITY BY STORM

Hear us roar • AS THE LIONESSES CELEBRATE THEIR EUROS VICTORY, DIVA DISCOVERS HOW WOMEN PLAYING FOOTBALL HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAME-CHANGING FOR THE QUEER COMMUNITY

KT: mind, body and soul • ELEANOR NOYCE CHATS TO KT TUNSTALL ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM, SEXUAL FLUIDITY AND HER COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH FAME

Riding the waves • ELEANOR NOYCE CHATS TO PALE WAVES’ HEATHER AND CIARA ABOUT COMING OUT, SAPPHIC SONGS AND THEIR NEW ALBUM, UNWANTED

MUSIC

BOOKS

Bisexuality onscreen • TO CELEBRATE BISEXUAL AWARENESS WEEK (16-23 SEPTEMBER), WE INVITED DIVA READERS TO TAKE OUR SURVEY ABOUT BI REP ONSCREEN. FROM YOUR BIGGEST BICONS TO WHAT GIVES YOU THE ICK, HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU HAD TO SAY

SCREEN

Call me Jiggly • THE ONE AND ONLY JIGGLY CALIENTE TALKS DRAG RACE PHILIPPINES, DRAGCON UK AND COMING OUT AS TRANS

The uni bubble • WHAT ARE THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF LGBTQI UNIVERSITY LIFE?

Here’s how the cost of living crisis is impacting LGBTQI women and non-binary people • RISING COSTS ARE HITTING OUR COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY HARD

Queer love bombing: romance or abuse? • ELEANOR NOYCE INVESTIGATES THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND “LOVE BOMBING” AND HOW IT’S IMPACTING LGBTQI PEOPLE

A culture of inclusion • VALENTINO VECCHIETTI looks towards the next 50 years and the role the arts play

Dear Ali... • THIS MONTH, ALI HELPS A READER MAKE A DIFFICULT CHOICE

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