The Fab 5 Return With More Fabulousness

by Chris Narloch

The new Fab 5 have already outdone the original cast of Queer Eye, which ran for five seasons on Bravo beginning in 2003.

Now on Netflix, the boys who make up the rebooted makeover series recently returned with Season 7 from New Orleans, which features more beautiful before and afters, including a frat house fixer-upper!

If you haven’t been watching the new Queer Eye, you should be. Join Bobby, Karamo, Tan, Jonathan, and (my personal favorite) Antoni for more hip tips and heartfelt reveals.

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend

written by Dan Jones

Illustrations by Jade Moore

Acelebration of gay gods, sapphic saints and queerness through the ages, this book features 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits. “Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend” is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic saints, and lesbians of legend.

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.

Through Dan Jones’s witty, upbeat style, be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles and Iphis & Ianthe, join the muscle-worshipping cult of Antinous, meet pot smoking Amazons, sing the songs of Sappho, and discover gay male army, the Sacred Band of Thebes.

And from modern pop-culture, head to Fire Island to meet Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things, meet the many versions of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, gaymer deity Zelda, and learn more about 90s fan obsessions “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” through to “Neil Gaiman’s American Gods,” “Game of Thrones,” and the BBC’s “Doctor Who.” “Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend” brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

Dan Jones is a best-selling British author living in New York. A onetime magazine editor (i-D Magazine, Time Out London), Dan writes about fashion, grooming, booze, and queer culture.

365 Gays Of The Year: Plus 1 For A Leap Year Discover Lgbtq+ History One Day At A Time

book by Lewis Laney illustrated by Charlotte MacMillan-Scott

Carefully curated and thoughtfully researched, 365 Gays of the Year features people from across the globe, throughout history, and from every letter of LGBTQIA+ rainbow alphabet, assigning a person or persons of note to each day of the year to form a fascinating LGBTQ+ hall of fame and enabling readers to learn something new, on a daily basis.

Legendary queer icons such as Marsha P Johnson and Freddie Mercury sit alongside lesser known but equally important names such as activist Renée Cafiero, blood donor Barbara Vick, and Sappho the lesbian poet (who was doing her thing in 570BC). All have contributed amazing achievements to the LGBTQ+ story. Each month also features one ally - inspiring heterosexual people who have all contributed something significant to the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. People like Elizabeth Taylor who “brought AIDS out of the closet and into the ballroom – where there was money to be raised”.

Lewis Laney says: “The reasons people are featured in this book are wide-ranging. Some are tied to one specific, notable act that is integral to our history. Many have spent their lives fighting for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, while others have excelled in their fields and made outstanding contributions to society and just happen to be queer. The allies included in this book have all contributed something significant to the lives of LGBTQ+ people too. I can’t fit them all in the book, but we are grateful they are by our sides. The stories of women, people of colour and the financially underprivileged are also often under-recorded however I strived to make this list as diverse as possible. The LGBTQIA+ acronym has grown to encompass more and more letters over the years, and you’ll find it used in various forms throughout the book. When using my own voice, I’ve gone with a commonly used standard (LGBTQ+) - but every letter is celebrated here!”