Beware the trope of the media bisexual
By Ben Helme Welcome to modern media, where bisexuals exist to titillate, traumatise, and terrify. Gather round, clutch your pearls,…
A question to the community: Do corporations have a place in Pride at LSE?
By Beatriz Silva and Yasmina O’Sullivan What do the NYC Pride March and a pre-pandemic Wednesday outside of the LSE…
Lights Up on Jo Parker
For this (slightly late) Flipside pride interview, I spoke to second-year International Social and Public Policy with Politics student Jo…
LGBTQIA+ & the British Tamil community: a double barrier to celebrating Pride.
Pride Month is synonymous with inclusivity and celebration. However, for people of colour, few safe and intersectional spaces exist. This…
Pride #1: Being LGBTQ+, at Home and in London
“So I kinda had built [London] up as this idyllic queer paradise in my head when really, it’s a lot…
Seeing both sides: bisexual masculinities and the bi experience
Two weeks ago, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health released the findings from a 2014/15 health survey on sexual orientation. The…
Homophobia: a Western export
illustration by Christina Ivey Homophobia is a Western export, a violent by-product of expanding Christendom to the colonies. It all…
Queerness and the Qur’an
I was thirteen when I first realised I wasn’t straight. I had a “best friend”— if best friend were code…
Heteronormativity: the underpinnings of LSE culture
Heteronormativity can be understood as the assumed normalcy of heterosexuality where social norms presume that all people fit neatly into…
Muxes: the Mexican ‘third gender’
Latin American countries – Mexico in particular- are not places known as advocates for progressive LGBTQ+ rights. Although Mexico City…
