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GAY TIMES • Issue 541 March 2024

Editor’s Letter

Gotta Have It

Zara Larsson The birth of Venus • The Swedish pop juggernaut talks to Nick Levine about her ethereal new album, queer allyship and growing up as a young woman in a male-dominated industry.

For Raquel Willis, pleasure is praxis • The writer and public intellectual speaks to Jazmine Hughes about her memoir The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation.

The lavender menace: how lesbians queered the women’s rights movement • After being sidelined in mainstream feminism, queer women stormed a National Organization for Women conference – challenging heterosexism and sparking movements that would change the way we think about gender.

Transmisogyny has deep roots in our culture – it’s time to reckon with the consequences • Amelia Abraham speaks to Jules Gill-Peterson, the author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny, and trans historian and writer Morgan M. Page about the systems which oppress trans women and what we can do to tackle them.

The neo- noir taking aim at femme phobia in the queer community • FEMME directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping on reimagining queer cinema, reclaiming power and creating the ultimate anti-hero.

Ooh girl, you got female: the women queens proving that drag is for everyone • Banishing assumptions and breaking boundaries, female queens are diversifying the scene.

Two years on from the Women’s Health Strategy announcements, has anything actually changed for same-sex couples? • Despite promises of change, fertility inequality still hits lesbian parents-to-be – whether through casual homophobia during medical appointments or a ‘postcode lottery’ that keeps funding for IUI and IVF dependent on your address.