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Jul 19, 2024 | 
gaytimes.com | Sam Damshenas |Chris Selman |Amy Ashenden |Philip Baldwin
“Don’t scream at me,” Tilda Swinton’s kooky art-world outcast jabs at [insert any character from the film here] in Julio Torres’ batshit debut feature Problemista. One of many quotes in the subversive comedy that deserve to become a regular go-to in the vernacular of queers, Problemista is the perfect vehicle for the Saturday Night Live alum’s signature brand of finding absurdity and surrealism in the mundane.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
gaytimes.com | Sam Damshenas |Chris Selman |Philip Baldwin |Amy Ashenden
Originals Words by Amy Ashenden, Director of Comms and Engagement at Just Like Us Growing up, I really struggled with internalised homophobia and being in a family that didn’t accept me.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
gaytimes.co.uk | Sam Damshenas |Amy Ashenden |Alice Morey |Chris Selman
Originals Scarlet Envy speaks with GAY TIMES about her “surprising” rift with Hannah Conda and why she’s “glad” she was eliminated instead of Marina Summers.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
gaytimes.co.uk | Casey Browne |Conor Clark |Sam Damshenas |Amy Ashenden
Our biggest hope as parents is that our children will grow up happy. That they are happy, healthy, confident individuals who aren’t afraid to be themselves and discover the world around them. That’s certainly the case for me since I became a parent last year. So why then do so many parents make the damaging assumption that their children will be heterosexual and cisgender?
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
A person’s journey through their gender-identity is as unique as the person going through it. In this episode of Ask the Aunties, our fabulous queer agony aunts answer give advice to a person wondering if anyone could be too young to realise if they are trans or non-binary. Queer agony aunts Lee Gray and Karnage Kills respond to a dilemma sent in anonymously by a reader worried about whether there is ever a good time to come out as transgender or non-binary.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
If you have homophobic grandparents, should you bother coming out to them as pansexual? In this episode of Ask the Aunties, our queer agony aunties Karnage and Lee help a 24-year-old woman who identifies as pansexual has written in to ask if she should come out to her family. The dilemma: should I come out as pansexual? “I’m a 24-year-old pansexual woman. My friends and fiancé totally accept it. “However, I pretend to be straight when I’m with my grandparents.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
Bisexuality is valid. Yet, biphobia and bi-erasure still rear their ugly head, especially for bi-women. In this episode of Ask the Aunties, gay agony aunties Lee, Karnage and Rhys offer advice to a bisexual woman who is feeling disgruntled with her cisgender, heterosexual boyfriend’s lack of interest in queer issues. Here’s her dilemma:I’m a bisexual woman in a relationship with a cishet man. He doesn’t engage with queer issues and culture, and he’s just not really interested.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
Meet Auntie Lee and Auntie Karnage, PinkNews’ resident panel of advice-giving experts! In this edition of Ask the Aunties, they offer advice to a young person who is asking themselves a common question: “Am I gay?”As a young person begins to grapple with questions about their identity, the exploration of their own sexual orientation can be a complex and introspective journey. For a young person, this can be a liberating and challenging time in their lives.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
PinkNews’ in-house queer agony aunties Karnage and Lee are back on the couch offering sage, and sometimes brutally honest advice. In this episode of Ask the Aunties, Lee and Karnage help out a reader who is struggling to find their own queer Black community. After coming out for the first time, working out where and how to make LGBTQ+ friends doesn’t come immediately—especially as many queer spaces do not centre black or brown communities.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
thepinknews.com | Amy Ashenden
Lee Gray, Karnage Kills and Rhys Hollis are the queer agony aunts you always wanted, and they’re here to give you advice on the questions around sexuality, relationships and just life in general. In this episode of Ask the Aunties, our fabulous queer agony aunts Karnage, Lee and Rhys offer advice to a parent who thinks their son may be gay. It’s a question that many parents ponder as their children grow up into teenage year: if they think their kids may be LGBTQ+, should they ask or wait?
