Your New Music Round Up: 23/06
HISKIND Magazine
This Week
Mind Games: Tackling The Stigma of Mental Health Within The Music Industry
Glitterbox Brings Jellybean Benitez to London for ‘Music Is The Answer’
Inside Chechnya’s Secret Prison That Detained and Tortured Gay Men
How Homophobia and Transphobia is Bad For the Economy
The Ten Most Revolutionary Moments of UNHhhh
Andrew Christian Accused of Stealing Designs from LGBT Artists
How Nike, Levi’s, and More are Flying the Rainbow Flag This Pride
Your New Music Round Up: 16/06
How Lorde Crafted A Safe Space With ‘Melodrama’
Being Offended by Black and Brown Stripes on the Pride Flag Proves Why They’re Necessary
New York City to March and Rally in Celebration of Pride Flag Creator’s Life
Features
How Homophobia and Transphobia is Bad For the Economy
To mark the beginning of Pride month, Ivanka Trump tweeted: “I am proud to support my LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans who have made immense contributions to our society…
Cane Away the Gay: Inside Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT+ Endemic
This month officially marks ‘LGBT Pride Month’. The event was created to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots, as well as recognising the impact that members of the LGBT community have…
Urban Outfitters to Release Pride Collection Benefitting LGBT+ Charities this June
Contemporary youth, fashion and lifestyle brand Urban Outfitters have tapped into the joy of pride season with an upcoming release of a pride based apparel collection in collaboration with rapper…
Exclusive: UK Government Have Not Granted Visas to LGBT+ People in Chechnya Escaping Russia
Following on from reports emerging that gay men in Chechnya – a republic in South West Russia – are being actively sought out, arrested and murdered by official authorities, the…
Rock BTTM: Why PWR BTTM Were Dropped So Fast
Content warning: assaultThis Friday, rising queer punk duo PWR BTTM released their sophomore album, Pageant. What looked set to be a celebration of non-conformity and self-expression within the music industry…
Meet the Inspirational Gay Immigrant Who Helped Fight Trump’s Muslim Ban
“I see my life as a living challenge to societal norms and prejudices, whether I am challenging the way judges see my clients in immigration court, or whether I am…
London’s LGBT+ Community Rallies Against Chechnya’s Gay ‘Concentration Camps’
London’s LGBT+ community came out in full force Wednesday (12th April) evening, valiantly protesting outside the UK’s Russian embassy in response to reports of ‘concentration camps’ being utilised to imprison,…
We Got 5 Artists to Reimagine the HISKIND Logo
Throughout history, creativity has been the backbone of the LGBT+ community. At HISKIND, we believe the celebration artistic expression remains pivotal to progress.In anticipation for the launch of the first…
Little White KKKnightmares: Meeting an Active Member of the KKK in 2017
In this special report from Issue One of HISKIND, Publishing Editor Dean Eastmond meets an active member of the Ku Klux Klan to talk about Trump, Neo-Nazism and many more…
Introducing Issue One of HISKIND
Launching a print publication in 2017 is no easy task, but it’s been something integral to all of us at HISKIND to create a platform both online and in print…
Nicolosi Was Responsible For My Conversion Therapy: Here’s Why His Ideology Lives On
Dr. Joseph Nicolosi is dead. A shocking moment for so many of us who have been through conversion therapy. Since 1992, Nicolosi has led the way and done everything in…
How the Portrayal of Gay Characters On Screen is Challenging Audiences
There was a time when making a film with a gay subject matter was considered taboo. This was followed by an influx of movies about the tragedy of being gay…