Queer & now

Only a handful of Love Island contestants make being a celebrity their full-time gig. But what about the hundreds who go back to their ‘real’ lives?

I can still remember the words from my classmates as we sat debating homosexuality in a religious studies class at school. ‘It’s wrong to be gay!’ one classmate said with conviction. ‘It’s not natural

After 69 series, the team captains of Have I Got News for You are bound by mutual respect but still manage to surprise each other

FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE ACTOR HAS FOUND HIMSELF DRAWN TO THE DARK AND THE DISTURBING… AND THE STRANGE. NOW, AS HE PLAYS POWER-HUNGRY MANIAC LEX LUTHOR IN SUPERMAN , HE TELLS US WHY NORMALITY IS HIS KRYPTONITE

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Words can be all-powerful, as these three couples discovered. They reveal the romantic and unusual ways books brought them together…