By his own admission, Anglo-Bengali gay comedian Paul Sinha ticks plenty of boxes, but he is never one to fall back on self-indulgent clichés. His Edinburghbound show, Saint or Sinha, tackles his sexuality and heritage in a frequently original way that upends expectations. It is a stand-up show about standing up - to stupidity, prejudice and simple bad manners.

Sinha shrewdly sugars his...

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CHICAGO - Sweat shimmering across her face, Natalie Matlou stood over her teammates Monday and, in a mix of English and her native Sotho, demanded victory in the first round of the Gay Games.

Her team, South Africa's only black lesbian soccer squad, was tied at the half against a...

Something extraordinary will hit London's cultural life tomorrow, and it's arisen without the agency of any central planner.

As readers of last Saturday's Arts + Books may be aware, we are being treated to a 10-day festival - a feast, indeed - of Russian opera, given by Russia's two greatest companies.

At Covent Garden, the Moscow-based Bolshoi presents Prokofiev's Fiery Angel ...

Past episodes of this column have featured references to fake scholarly rock books, many of which readers kindly tried to seek out. So let me begin by saying that the book under discussion this time is completely real. Wesleyan University Press is legit, and Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music is currently on sale. The book is written by Wendy Fonarow, an anthropol...

Young people in the Australia state of Victoria who suffer bullying because of their sexuality will have a local support network as part of a proposal by the Victorian Greens Party.

Under their plans, support groups should be funded in each of Victoria's 79 local government areas.

Greg Barber, the Greens Education spokesperson said: “Growing up is hard, growing up lesbian, gay, bis...

Who'd have thought that Nikki would have been so easily replaced on Big Brother? We were starting to get worried that there would be no more Big Brother tantrums without Nikki, but we were wrong. And all it took was a lamb smoothie.

After Glyn was rewarded for the Big Brother walking task with lamb and raspberry pavlova liquidised into a glass, he lost his temper, and so did Spiral. A...

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CHICAGO - Sweat shimmering across her face, Natalie Matlou stood over her teammates Monday and, in a mix of English and her native Sotho, demanded victory in the first round of the Gay Games.

Her team, South Africa's only black lesbian soccer squad, was tied at the half against ...

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CHICAGO - Sweat shimmering across her face, Natalie Matlou stood over her teammates Monday and, in a mix of English and her native Sotho, demanded victory in the first round of the Gay Games.

Her team, South Africa's only black lesbian soccer squad, was tied at the half against a...

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With her braided hair coming out from the side of her head and her long legs revealing years of bruises and scars, Jane Eloy made her way down the runway at a Copacabana Beach hotel last week with an enormous grin.

After years of working as a prostitute on this city's meanest str...

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CHICAGO - Sweat shimmering across her face, Natalie Matlou stood over her teammates Monday and, in a mix of English and her native Sotho, demanded victory in the first round of the Gay Games.

Her team, South Africa's only black lesbian soccer squad, was tied at the half a...