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.

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Editor’s letter

A letter from our publisher

Connect with your COMMUNITY

TRENDING

#LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK • Here are different ways to celebrate our community this month and beyond 

The hottest queer haircuts of 2023 • Phoebe Waller-Bridge once said “hair is everything” and this couldn’t be more true for the LGBTQIA community. Here are our trending trims of the year so far

You said it...

DIVA Meets: Midgitte Bardot • THE DRAG ARTIST TALKS DWARFISM, REPRESENTATION AND RAGE WORDS GEORGIA DIMDORE-MILES

WLW Celeb style icons

Yes, I’m queer, but I’ve never dated a woman

Goodbye long hair, hello lesbianism • IZZIE JONES remembers going under the (short) chop for the first time

Coming out… again • NIC CROSARA unpicks their relationship with compulsory cis-heteronormativity

BEING KELLY

WE FEEL MOST SEEN AT NIGHT • LESBIAN SPACES ARE REBORN AFTER DARK

Gender Heroes • LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TRANSGENDER, NON-BINARY AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING TRAILBLAZERS WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD

IS QUEER POLYAMORY A RADICAL FEMINIST ACT? • HOW POLYAMORY INTERROGATES THE PATRIARCHY BEHIND THE MONOGAMOUS BLUEPRINT

A digital archive of my queerness • WE ALL HAVE VIRTUAL RECORDS OF OUR QUEER LIVES ON OUR PHONES. GEORGIA DIMDORE-MILES EXPLORES HERS AND DISCOVERS WHAT THIS ACT OF NOSTALGIA CAN ACHIEVE

Working class butch • NEW EXHIBITION WE/US IS A LOVE LETTER TO LESBIAN VISIBILITY

Queer love for a long, long time • NIC CROSARA EXAMINES THE POWER OF LGBTQIA REPRESENTATION ON HBO’S ‘THE LAST OF US’

SHADOW AND BONE

LEZ CELEBRATE THESE SHIPS

THE POWER

GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES

Trash-talking, The L Word and #CancelYourGays • WITH THE RECENT NEWS OVER THE FATE OF A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, SHOULD WE BE WORRIED ABOUT THE L WORD: GENERATION Q?

LUCY SPRAGGAN

Pick of the Month

JOY OLADOKUN Proof Of Life

ZOON

The ballad of O’Hooley & Tidow • THE TRAIL-BLAZERS OF FOLK MUSIC TALK SURANNE JONES, MOTHER-HOOD AND THEIR GLORI-OUS NEW ALBUM

CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING

MY LIFE IN SEA CREATURES

#LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK2023

ROSEWATER

Wedded wife • RACHAEL LENNON INVESTI-GATES THE FEMINIST HISTORY OF MARRIAGE

Preserved in words • HOW THE LAVENDER MENACE QUEER BOOKS ARCHIVE IS DOCUMENTING OUR PAST AND INSPIRING THE FUTURE

And the nominees are...

How to get a girl to notice you…

Domestic abuse happens in LGBTQIA relationships too

A space to call your own

Putting intersex visibility centre stage

Ask Ali ... • SEEKING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WHILE STILL HAVING FUN

Sex onscreen

SEXY BITS

MY SECRET SEX DIARY