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• Philip and Tom

  

  The Blind Date has had a bit of a makeover in the new Saturday magazine, which launched today. Don't worry, the questions are still on a level with a polite... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Tom and Katharyn

  

  Today is the end of an era. After decades of bulking out the Saturday's edition of the Guardian with recipes I will never try and interviews with people who hav... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Johnny and Gen

  I originally wrote something quite profound here about what date it is today and what calendars really mean - including a so-so joke about friends who go out... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• You’ll Float Too

  

  What's the magic achievement, or product, that will take you from just vaguely content to five-star rating, 100% loaded, all achievements unlocked, endgame... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Poppy and Lucy

  Are we past it yet? The bit where we all talk about our pandemics? Relaying our lockdowns, sharing our jab statuses, offering fascinating musings on the dire... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Let Them Eat Chips

  

  If you wait long enough, everything you ever liked will be gentrified. Over the years I've watched the childhood meals I used to eat at the table with fork in... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Will and Owen

  How's your summer? You enjoying being drenched for days at a time with a brief break for a 30º frazzling? Yes, fabulous, isn't it? While social distancing ... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Discontinued: The Products We Loved and Lost

  

  We talk a lot about the relationships that matter to us the most, and what happens when they go wrong. Romantic breakups, friendships going awry, estrangement... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Going Nolo: Summer

  

  Maybe other than Christmas, summer is the most difficult time of the year not to be a drinker. Summer 2021, especially, given we spent the first quarter of the... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Eva and Anita

  Let's round off Pride Month with what your horrible sexist uncle with broad fingernails would call 'two birds'. This week, limbering up for a possible public... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Jamie and Molly

  

  In a week where we discovered that not only are cabinet ministers still having affairs like it's the 1980s or something, they're doing it pressed up against... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• David and Alex

  They say youth is wasted on the young, but few things have made me as grateful to be more on the 'getting on a bit' side than the uncertainty about when we can... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Chris and Greg

  

  I can't remember the last time I was so pleased to see two men, apart from that time there was a massive queue in H M and both of them jumped on the tills.... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Splash the Cash

  

  When I was younger, rich people were mysterious. They existed behind tinted windows, and velvet ropes. I knew nothing about them other than what I could glean... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Joseph and Beti

  I moved house this week. I can't say I adored the experience, to be honest - seeing all the space junk I've accumulated over the years shoved into boxes, or... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Lucas and Lucía

  

  We cross live to my Twitter account for some breaking news: Today's @guardian Blind Date review in full: pic.twitter.com/TszgMnYLQ1 - Justin Myers... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Nicole and Luke

  

  What a week it's been! Well, I'm assuming it's been 'a week' - the days tend to blur into one and most weeks tend to be 'quite a week' or a 'hell of a week' or... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Lost Language of Memorials

  

  I am not going to write about my grief anymore. It isn't helping, hasn't changed anything at all. It isn't cathartic, or healing. It leans too much into... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Chris and Ariana

  

  Hello. For the first time in months, Blind Daters can feel the wind in their hair - and hopefully their sails - as they glance at one another over a glass of... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Kate and Stephen

  

  And, lo, it came to pass that as we entered the 700th week of lockdown or whatever we're calling this, the GBD is once again two ostensibly straight people... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2021 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX