Gay and lesbian travel

February is LGBTQ+ history month: here are 10 of the best places to celebrate it

This year’s event is themed on queer contributions to cinema, with screenings, museum tours, talks and exhibitions from Glasgow to Margate

Stephen Emms

30, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM

The moment I knew: I was on a quest to figure out exactly how gay I was. But I kept coming back to her

Turning up at a party in the same outfit as someone else can be awkward, but one summer in New York, a sartorial coincidence blossomed into romance

A Wiggin

21, Jan, 2023 @7:00 PM

Your ultimate Melbourne events guide: the best things to do this weekend and what’s on through January

Highlights from Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country

Sian Cain, Steph Harmon, Janine Israel, Tim Byrne and Michael Sun

18, Jan, 2023 @1:51 AM

Street smarts: educational guided walks across the UK

From architecture in London, street art in Belfast and city routes hosted by former homeless people, here are some of the most informative trails on offer

Alice O'Keeffe

31, Oct, 2022 @1:00 PM

10 of Europe’s best destinations for LGBTQ+ travellers this Pride season

From Madrid to Mykonos our writer picks the most queer-friendly holiday spots in Europe

Stephen Emms

23, Jun, 2022 @5:57 AM

Two lovers at sunset in Vietnam … Maika Elan’s best photograph

‘Although homosexuality is legal in Vietnam, I still got negative reactions to my pictures of couples being intimate. And this just motivated me to take more’

Interview by Ross Lancaster

18, May, 2022 @2:16 PM

How we met: ‘I wanted to discover the world. He said: I’ll go with you!’

Stefan and Sebastien, both 39, met at a bar in 2009. Sebastien instantly decided Stefan was ‘the man of my life’

Lizzie Cernik

07, Feb, 2022 @11:00 AM

‘Iconic gay image’: history of sailors and sex explored in Barcelona exhibition

Catalan city is hosting new show looking at relationships between men who spend their lives at sea

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

29, Jun, 2021 @3:46 PM

Gay, communist, female: why MI5 blacklisted the poet Valentine Ackland

A biography of the Dorset poet, who was a lover of the novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, traces her struggle ‘to live as herself’

Vanessa Thorpe

04, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM

On the trail of Cambridge's rich and radical queer past

To mark the start of LGBTQ+ History Month, the creator of a new audio tour reveals the people and places that have shaped queer life in the city – and why he wanted to share their stories

Diarmuid Hester

01, Feb, 2021 @6:30 AM

Going on holiday during the pandemic – it's just one big guilt trip | Arwa Mahdawi

I thought escaping from New York City for a few days would restore a sense of normality to my life. Instead, I ended up getting a coronavirus test, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Arwa Mahdawi

14, Jul, 2020 @12:00 PM