DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're taking a closer look at the year 2001! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers fo...
Apr 08, 2024•4 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're all meeting up in the year 2000! (When in a strange way we're all fully grown...) PLUS - seeing as it's Sunday, we thought we'd gift you even more luscious DIVA content. Here's one of our favourite articles of the last seven years - "Dyke TV Interrupts Normal Viewing" from 1995's August / September issue (the one with Anna Friel on the cover). "Cool Eye at the Centre...
Apr 07, 2024•17 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're winding back the time travel machine all the way to 1999, when DIVA was still in its infancy. Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . ...
Apr 06, 2024•5 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're zipping on back to the year 1998! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for you...
Apr 05, 2024•4 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're doing the time warp back to the year 1997! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queer...
Apr 04, 2024•5 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're going back to the year 1996! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for your Ear...
Apr 03, 2024•4 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're going back to the year 1995! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for your Ear...
Apr 02, 2024•4 min
DIVA magazine turns 30 this year and to celebrate we're covering those 30 glorious years, in 30 days throughout April. Today we're going back to the year of DIVA magazine's conception - 1994! Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's April issue here. Edited and produced by Rachel Shelley with additional editing, producing and knock-out audiogram awesomeness by Ella Gauci . With love and support from TeamDI...
Apr 01, 2024•4 min
DIVA magazine's 30th Anniversary issue is hot off the press and goodness, it's on FIRE! Join DIVA editor, the right royal Roxy Bourdillon, and The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) as they delve into the magazine past and present. Digging up some juicy tid-bits that are sure to tickle your fancy, including the remarkable evolution of DIVA over 30 years intimate insights into the power of DIVA the Sapphic surge in literature, including Musih Ted Xaviere and Gabrielle Korn. Plus an e...
Mar 27, 2024•44 min
Kate Osborne is the Labour Member of Parliament for Jarrow , a gay woman who's served her South Tyneside constituency since 2019. In this episode of podDIVA, Kate talks to Rachel Shelley from New York where she is attending the UN's annual Commission on the Status of Women. Kate is not only a tireless campaigner for her constituents, she also focuses much of her work on equality issues, including trans and all LGBTQIA plus rights. In this episode we discuss her own intimate reflections on 'comin...
Mar 13, 2024•27 min
DIVA magazine's editorial assistant Ella (aka your personal queer newsreader) brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here. Edited by Ella Gauci . The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people. Check out our podDIVA back catalogue with over 100 episodes - where you can find all your favourite LGBTQIA voices. Are you living o...
Mar 06, 2024•4 min
Today we’re visiting the Relationship Room with DIVA magazine’s very own resident relationship coach, the awesome Ali Hendry . Ali is talking to Jem Ayres – a certified Sex Geek and Orgasmic Embodiment Coach. She’s a Sex Coach and Tantra practitioner. Together they’re discussing: · Creating micro-pleasures · Reframing failure · Unearthing tantric touch There is so much fascinating stuff to learn in this ep! Stay connected: Jem Ayres website Jem Ayres Facebook Jem Ayres Insta Ali Hendry website A...
Feb 28, 2024•26 min
The amazing Beverley Knight is our stunning cover star, and in this spirited, energy-infused episode she talks to DIVA magazine's Deputy Editor Nic Crosara about celebrating 50 glorious years of life stepping into her power and confidence her endless love of music making accidentally becoming a gay icon Now also an Olivier Award winning West End star, Beverley's latest brilliant album The Fifth Chapter released at the end of last year. Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Sh...
Feb 14, 2024•23 min
Beverley Knight is on the cover, people! You know Everything is Going to be Alright ... And what a cover! It's a bumper issue of DIVA magazine and a bumper episode of the DIVA Debrief, with the right royal Roxy Bourdillon, editor supreme, and The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody). Discussing LGBTQ History Month Twenty years of The L Word - TWENTY! Whether it's time to phase out the term "openly gay" Ella Gauci's special report on our elderly LGBTQIA+ community Plus an exclusive Bey...
Jan 31, 2024•54 min
DIVA magazine's editorial assistant Ella (aka your personal queer newsreader) brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here. Edited by Ella Gauci . Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from # TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for your Ears The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people. Check out our podDIVA back catalogue...
Jan 24, 2024•5 min
Ali Hendry 's Relationship Room with author of “NeuroQueer” CJ DeBarra CJ DeBarra (they/them) is a non-binary, queer journalist and author from Ireland and based in Nottingham. Today we discuss: · Sex, Kink and ADHD · ADHD queer dating · ADHD self-advocacy · Why there are so many queer neurodivergent humans Stay connected: CJDeBarra Twitter CJDeBarra website Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley Want to hear more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's Decembe...
Jan 17, 2024•24 min
On this week's #podDIVA we spoke to the enigmatic singer-songwriter Marika Hackman about her new album Big Sigh. Join us as we dig into what inspires her music, the trials and tribulations of the "old queer longing", having crushes on girls in the year above at school, and about how she met her partner and DIVA-fave singer Art School Girlfriend! Editorial Assistant Ella Gauci dives into the making of this highly anticipated album. Have you heard our top-rated ep? TheLWordGenQ with Rachel Shelley...
Jan 03, 2024•16 min
pod DIVA is off nibbling mince pies with Sapphic Claus this week, but we didn't want to leave you with empty stockings! A Gentleman Jack bonanza! Featuring the married folk duo Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow, creators of THAT theme tune! We're celebrating this smash HBO / BBC TV show in all its sapphic glory! With star Suranne Jones on this month's DIVA cover. Hear amazing tales of love, self-actualization, joy and music-making that Gentleman Jack has inspired. Including contributions from Pat...
Dec 27, 2023•28 min
Today on podDIVA we have a special episode of The Relationship Room with Moe Ari Brown . Moe Ari is the Love and Connection Expert for the dating app Hinge – Hinge is now the UK’s number one trending dating app! Moe is also a Mental Health Expert in Transgender Identity and a Licenced Marriage & Family Therapist In this episode, Moe talks to your host of The Relationship Room and DIVA Magazine’s Ali Hendry about Deepening Our Love Goals. And as we enter the holiday period - how can we use co...
Dec 13, 2023•28 min
DIVA magazine's editorial assistant Ella (aka your personal queer newsreader)... brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's December issue here. Edited by Ella Gauci . Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from # TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for your Ears The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people. Check out our podDIVA back catalo...
Dec 06, 2023•4 min
Get ready for the big bash - DIVA is turning 30 next year! Woo hoo! Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and DIVA's very own Sapphic-Claus Roxy Bourdillon , resplendent in red velvet with a white faux fur trim, as we dig into this latest issue of DIVA. The one with the sublime Suranne Jones on the cover. Rachel and Roxy cosy up together this yuletide, between the covers and under the mistletoe, taking a look at some of our tastiest morsels of writing whilst reflecting back on...
Nov 29, 2023•50 min
DIVA magazine's editorial assistant Ella (aka your personal queer newsreader)... brings you the hottest and most important headlines from the last two weeks in our new segment: DIVA Digest. Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here. Edited by Ella Gauci . Produced by Rachel Shelley with love and support from # TeamDIVA podDIVA : Queers for your Ears The world's leading brand for LGBTQIA plus women and non-binary people. Check out our podDIVA back catalog...
Nov 22, 2023•4 min
Whether it's sunset swims, Colosseum kisses or Las Vegas loving, On Airplane Mode duo Kirstie and Christine have been creating gorgeously hip on-line content for over five years, winning the hearts of half a million followers world-wide. From their journeys of adventure and love, they create blogs and safety tips for LGBTQ plus travellers, empowering and inspiring wherever they land. Be it Jordan or Jamaica, Taiwan or Thailand, they're guaranteed to give you major wanderlust. Today our right roy...
Nov 15, 2023•22 min
Lesbian Supper Club is a truly fabulous, filthy and irreverent queer podcast, hosted by real life couple Scarlett and Freya. In this sparkling episode of podDIVA, our right royal editor-in-chief Roxy Bourdillon talks to the pair about where it all started. From coming out, first dates and feral, drunken evenings. But not on champagne. Never champagne! Want to see more of all things LGBTQIA? Grab your copy of DIVA's October issue here. Edited by Ella Gauci , with additional editing by Rachel Shel...
Nov 01, 2023•25 min
The Relationship Room is a safe place to discuss ideas that help us navigate interpersonal relationships. Ali Hendry , DIVA magazine’s own Holistic Relationship Coach (PCC) and columnist, digs in with curiosity, compassion... and a sweet garnish of humour. This week Ali talks to Musa Francis , a mental health coach who helps LGBTQIA plus creative business owners bloom into happier, healthier, more resilient versions of themselves. Together they discuss: micro-dosing on joy methods of building re...
Oct 18, 2023•25 min
It's DIVA date day and everyone's invited - we're whisking you off to London's Victoria and Albert Museum to join the DIVA celebrations! Join The L Word star Rachel Shelley (aka Helena Peabody) and your right royal DIVA Magazine editor extraordinaire Roxy Bourdillon , as we celebrate our free-ass M.F. cover star, Janelle Monáe, on location in central London. In a special feature exploring the DIVA exhibition at The V&A Museum, DIVA magazine takes pride of place alongside Janelle Monáe's vagi...
Oct 04, 2023•39 min
You may know screen writer and director Fawzia Mirza from the TV series Bite Size Holidays, or perhaps the Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night. But now she also has her directorial debut feature that’s scooping up lots of attention. Starring DIVA favourite Amrit Kaur from The Sex Lives of College Girls, The Queen of My Dreams has its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October, followed later by a screening at the Iris Prize in Cardiff. Shot in Pakistan and Toronto, there’s even a sprinkl...
Sep 20, 2023•17 min
podDIVA is off on its summer holidays, so we're re-running a few of our red-hot favourite episodes, just to keep in touch. This episode first aired on podDIVA in 2021. You may know the wonderful Heather Peace from EastEnders , where she has conjured up the complex character of Eve Unwin, earning nominations and a small media frenzy. Before that she was Detective Sergeant Sam Murray in Lip Service. Let's not forget she is also a stunningly successful singer-songwriter! Heather Peace talks to DIVA...
Sep 06, 2023•25 min
podDIVA is off on its summer holidays, so we're re-running a few of our red-hot favourite episodes, just to keep in touch. This episode first aired on podDIVA in March 2023. It may be the end for The L Word Generation Q, but with talk of an L Word New York spin-off, perhaps Bette and Tina's happy-ever-after is just the start of something new. Hear your L Word favourites Jennifer Beals (Bette Porter) and Laurel Holloman (Tina Kennard) sharing all the joy with Rachel Shelley (Helena Peabody) - tal...
Aug 30, 2023•48 min
podDIVA is on their summer holidays, so we're sending you some of our favourite episodes of the year. Because they're worth firing up the barbie and re-sizzling. Jennifer Beals is an icon. You'll know and love her for playing Bette Porter on Showtime's The L Word for very nearly 20 years. But her illustrious career has spanned a plethora of culture-defining cinematic moments and performances. The show's current iteration, The L Word Generation Q, sees her navigating the choppy waters of teen par...
Aug 23, 2023•22 min
