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.

Editor’s letter

A letter from our publisher

The Ultimate queer BBQ playlist

Crushes of the month

Sapphic summer pick‘n’mix

Connect with your community • Need some more queers in your life? Check out these events!

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Dannii Minogue • It’s the 90s in Soho, London. The music is thumping, sweat is dripping from the ceiling and the crowd starts cheering. Dannii Minogue has arrived.

Janelle Monáe

Which WLW ship are you and your boo? • If there’s one thing you can count on Team DIVA to do, it’s gush about our favourite WLW ships. There are so many to choose from, but we’ve somehow managed to whittle it down to just four. Ever wondered which fictional babes you and your boo are most like? Well, let’s find out…

Let us talk about lesbian sex in peace

The power of the pitch

Stop assuming we’re all straight • Let me set the scene. I’m at a family gathering. I haven’t seen my older cousins for some time and we start chatting, the way distant cousins do in that slightly awkward, I don’t really know you, manner.

Finding balance Lucy with Spraggan

Back to Litchfield

Everything I learned from my breakup

The truth about raising gaybies • My parenting journey has been exciting, complicated and, at times, scary. We stumbled along and have done a good job raising two wonderful children. But that wasn’t easy and meant rethinking our roles and ideals.

The donor diaries • Kate Husselbee and her wife are mothers to their donor-conceived teenage son. Kate was previously a volunteer at the Donor Conception Network, supporting parents using donors. She spoke to DIVA about choosing a donor, preparing for parenthood and talking to children and other people about donor conception.

The other mother • I always liked the name “the other mother”. I think other people struggled more with that reference than I did. Maybe they thought it undermined my role as a parent. I thought it was funny!

Playful, powerful, poised • How can connecting with your inner child revolutionise parenting? BY INDIGO SAPPHIRE MOON

#Rainbow Fam • These WLW inf luencers are documenting their parenting journeys online. For real talk, handy hints and awesome queer family representation, follow, follow, follow!

Becoming us • When the UK’s premier trans power couple joined DIVA’s Zoom interview, their love radiated through every interaction. Jake and Hannah Graf spoke to us about their feelings around writing a memoir and starting a family together and it was simply inspirational.

What I wish all parents of queer children understood • Because we need support, now more than ever

How sad sapphic pop became its own genre • Why have we always been drawn to such melancholy songs?

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