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Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace is simply over the moon ahead of the BAFTA Scotland Awards

The third annual Queer Media Festival takes place this week at the multi-million pound arts hub HOME.

Will Young, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Fleur East, Heather Small and Tulisa are just some of the huge names which are set to entertain the tens of thousands of people from across Europe expected to flock to Manchester this weekend.

Over 12,000 people made it along to Sparkle 2016 in the second weekend of July, up from ten thousand at last year’s event, but visibility, awareness and education remain key to the trans community making further inroads in society.

In Die Diana, a play performed for the Greater Manchester Fringe 2016, writer and director Stephen M Hornby has created what he describes as a ‘dark comedy’ full of tragedy – and he delivered on his promise.

A campaign group has claimed that Britain has ‘far greater influence’ over LGBT agendas across Europe while in the EU, as they set their case out against a Brexit in the upcoming referendum.

An aristocratic woman in her mid-50s steps out of the shadows and says: “I am Diana. I faked my own death.”

DSI Jeff Barton is set to tangle with Russian secret agents in the Manchester streets, in crime writer David Menon’s newest novel.

The People’s History Museum is seeking people who have a passion for history and LGBT rights to step forward as they hunt for a team of volunteer community curators to create its latest exhibition.

The game-changing HIV preventative Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) should be introduced ‘today and not tomorrow’, according to the leading figure in the LGBT Foundation.