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Comedian Zoe Lyons will kick off her UK tour with critically acclaimed show Little Misfit at Lowry Studio, Salford on Wednesday October 5.

British electropop singer-songwriter Aleksandra Denton , known as Shura, has come out as gay for the first time in an interview with MM ahead of her recent gig and Manchester’s Gorilla.

Todd Haynes’ Carol, featuring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, treads its own line between arthouse exploitation and mainstream cinema blends while exploring an unlikely but intense lesbian love affair.

Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is teaming up with leading health professionals working in tobacco control in a bid to ‘bring smoking out of the closet’.

Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is part of a new campaign to put an end to around 35,000 victims of LGBT hate crimes suffering in silence every year.

Manchester’s LGBT community is kicking off a summer full of sport with a brand new festival of fitness and activity throughout this month and the annual Pride Games.

A Manchester LGBT charity have embraced change and celebrated their 15th anniversary with a brand new name.

They say you should never mix business with pleasure… but meet award-winning sex and relationship coach Rachael McCoy, who gets ‘paid to masturbate’.

This week, MM’s very own agony aunt hears from a lesbian who thinks her partner may have cheated with a man because of a trip to the doctors.

Cosmopolitan’s resident sex therapist, Rachel Morris, discusses the significant harmful difference between how men and women are perceived sexually ahead of Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby debate at Manchester’s Contact Theatre