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.

TEAM DIVA

Editor’s letter

A letter from our publisher

TRENDING

YOUR SHOUT

DIVA Meets: House of Spice • GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE UPLIFTING NEW SOUTH ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN VOGUE AND DRAG HOUSE

STYLE FILES

Black and queer outside the city

Breakup checklist

READ ALL ABOUT IT • INTERNATIONAL POP STAR EMELI SANDÉ HAS BEEN ON AN EPIC JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY. NOW SHE IS READY TO SHARE HER REMARKABLE STORY EXCLUSIVELY WITH DIVA

What’s it really like swiping right when melanated? • NIC CROSARA INVESTIGATES THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQIA WOMEN AND NON-BINARY PEOPLE OF COLOUR NAVIGATING DATING APPS

EV’YAN WHITNEY’S TOP TIPS

This is allyship

A League Of Their Own and the power of Black queer joy onscreen

“It’s trans time!” • FROM STARRING IN HEARTSTOPPER AND DOCTOR WHO, TO FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS AT PROTESTS, HERE’S HOW YASMIN FINNEY IS CHANGING THE WORLD

KEMAH BOB'S GUIDE TO LIFE • THE COMEDIAN AND HOST OF FOC IT UP! COMEDY CLUB SHARES HER WORDS OF QUEER WISDOM

“You can be q ueer and play jungle” • DJ AND FOUNDER OF RECORD LABEL BEAUTIFUL, SHERELLE IS UPLIFT- ING BLACK, QUEER TALENT IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND CHAM- PIONING THE NEXT GENERATION OF QTIPOC ARTISTS

MUSIC

Everything falls into place

Black Angel turns 25 • CLAUD CUNNINGHAM AND PAULA GANNON- LEWIS, CO-FOUNDERS OF THE LEGENDARY CLUB NIGHT, TALK QTIPOC REPRESENTATION ON THE SCENE AND THEIR UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY

SCREEN

Blooming at Iris • FILMMAKER EFA BLOSSE- MASON ON QUEER DESIRE IN NATURE AND HER IRIS PRIZE JOURNEY

BOOKS

Writing from the margins with Kacen Callender • THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR BEHIND FELIX EVER AFTER AND THE ISLANDS OF BLOOD AND STORM SERIES TALKS ABOUT THEIR LATEST NOVEL, LARK & KASIM START A REVOLUTION

So eloquent

Queer Black women are having their ADHD diagnoses missed: here’s why that’s important • ELEANOR NOYCE EXPLORES HOW GENDERED, RACIAL AND SEXUAL BIASES IN ADHD RESEARCH HAVE RENDERED GENERATIONS OF BLACK WOMEN UNDIAGNOSED

No LGBTQIA person is free until we are all free

The Rainbow Lottery: I’m in it for everyone!

Want to own your own place?

Activism, resistance and being

Dear Ali ...

In ner hoe uprising

Trauma Queen • MEET JIMANEKIA EBORN, THE SEXPERT REFRAMING THE NARRATIVE FOR LGBTQIA WOMEN AND NON-BINARY PEOPLE OF COLOUR

SEXYBITS

My secret se x diary • MISHA RECALLS HOW COMING OUT AS DEMISEXUAL HELPED HER REGAIN HER OWN NARRATIVE