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The UK government’s trans guidance for schools has been published (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) LGBTQ+ charities in the UK have responded to the government’s draft guidance for trans schoolchildren, describing the proposals as “chilling” and “actively dangerous”.  Charities including Stonewall, Galop, and Mermaids have spoken out about the draft guidance, which could see teachers allowed to
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It was a truly impressive year for crime fiction and I got to review some special novels for Crime Fiction Lover – all that in spite of the glut of celebrity novels, some ghost written, which attracted a lot of attention but added little to the genre. This is the time to celebrate, though, and
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Acclaimed author and Polari Prize winner Julia Armfield has spoken to PinkNews about LGBTQ+ censorship, sapphic yearning and her award-winning novel, Our Wives Under the Sea. Armfield was named joint winner of the LGBTQ+ literary Polari Prize alongside Jon Ransom, who was honoured for his novel The Whale Tattoo. The annual awards ceremony celebrates the
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Written before her death in 2019, and published with the help of her daughter, Katherine Min’s The Fetishist allows Min to pour out something of herself that we might otherwise have sadly missed. Darkly funny, strangely poignant and sometimes startlingly vicious, The Fetishist is a wonderful novel from an author we lost too soon, and
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You’ll love Jennifer Love Hewitt‘s empowering message on aging.  The I Know What You Did Last Summer star shared that the fan reaction to her dramatic new hair transformation in August taught her an important lesson. As she put it, “Aging is Hollywood is really hard. You can’t do anything right.” Case in point? “I was getting my hair done and
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Santa Lives! Here comes Santa Claus has never been such a sinister warning… Following its triumphant premiere at this year’s Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the horror-comedy Santastein is ready to wreak havoc on a whole new audience with Santa being resurrected on SCREAMBOX tomorrow, just in time for Christmas! “The perfect comfort-watching stocking stuffer,” as Josh
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War for the Planet of the Apes could have easily ended the “reboot” era of the Apes franchise, with audiences being left to imagine what happened after the death of Andy Serkis’ Caesar. Instead, we’ll revisit this world next year in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, with the story picking up roughly 300
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As 2023 draws to a close, it’s comforting to reflect on the fact that, unlike many other aspects of day-to-day life, the crime fiction published this year has been just as good as ever… or, in some cases, even better. From cosy mysteries featuring plucky amateur sleuths to dark and twisted tales of serial killers
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A woman seeks refuge in the hot California desert, far away from the pressures of her sick husband and dying father. On a hike, she finds a large cactus with a hole big enough to walk through—which she does, taking her first steps on an adventure of reflection, grief and spirituality. Full of dark humor
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