Warning, this piece contains spoilers! Snatch Game separates the weak queens from the strong: this season’s edition was no different. A poor Snatch Game performance will always be remembered, as will a brilliant one: take […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Episode 5: UK Hun?
Warning: this piece contains spoilers! In possibly the greatest episode of Drag Race UK to date, the contestants were tasked with writing and performing verses of ‘UK Hun?’ with the guidance of pop legend MNEK. […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Episode 3: Ooh, the nerve!
Warning, this piece contains spoilers! It’s safe to say that this week’s episode of Drag Race UK was saturated with twists and turns: to quote Welsh icon Tayce, “the cheek, the nerve, the audacity, the […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: Is Season Two set to be the harshest in Drag Race herstory?
To kickstart the Gryphon’s column on Drag Race UK, Eleanor Noyce recaps Episode 1 with all its sass and shade.
Mae Martin’s “Feel Good”: The Perfectly Queer Tonic To The Outside World
Amongst all the anxiety of the current environment, “Feel Good” is the much-needed tonic to life’s woes. As much of the media speculates about the ongoing dreaded C-word pandemic, Canadian comedian Mae Martin’s semi-autobiographical TV […]
Reading & Leeds: Where Are The Women?
The issue of female representation on festival line-ups, or the lack thereof, is very contemporary. Keychange, a Creative Europe programme supported by the European Union, reports that forty-five European-wide music festivals are working towards a […]
In the Middle with Sounds Like A Storm
Leeds-based Sounds Like A Storm are, to pardon the pun, taking West Yorkshire by storm. Last Wednesday, they played their headline show at Oporto on Call Lane to an excitable audience of friends, family, and […]
Why Desiree Akhavan’s ‘The Bisexual’ is Queer Representation at its Finest
How many queer mixed-race women can you name that have written, directed and produced? Probably not many. Even better, how many bisexual mixed-race women can you name? It goes without saying that queer women, particularly […]
Sundara Karma Make a Not So Triumphant Return With New Single, ‘Illusions’
Tuesday saw the much-anticipated release of indie band Sundara Karma’s new single, ‘Illusions’. Attendees of their set at Saturday’s Neighbourhood festival in Manchester were treated to an exclusive listening of this; Twitter tells me the […]
India isn’t “catching up”, it was colonialism that brought anti-LGBT+ attitudes to the country.
The legacy of colonialism is ever-enduring. Since the 1600s, European powers Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Britain alike have been colonizing all over the world. Age-old Conservatives, including dear-old Boris, speak of traditional “British” values and […]
The mental health of NHS workers is in jeopardy: the Conservative government should learn from Germany about how to treat doctors and nurses properly
It’s no secret that the NHS is in crisis. Chronically underfunded by the current Conservative administration, in 2017 NHS Funding stated that it would need £30 billion to plug the funding gap. The response of […]