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• Tanya and Jason

  

  I look up at the sky more now, marvel at the blueness of it, the expanse. I don't know why I find it so fascinating these days (I do), but I get lost in it... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Lost

  Grief is a goo. A cold and heavy, sticky mess that you can't wash off, that you tell yourself you'll become accustomed to eventually, resigned to carrying... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Summer and Mark

  It's that part of the summer where I start to get mildly hysterical from the heat, especially at night when I can't sleep. Thankfully I now have a phone to... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Rachel and Ty

  Sometimes it's difficult to know where to start, so you just try for the beginning and hope for the best. To say my Twitter mentions were "busy" this morning... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Adam and James

  

  Sun's out, HUNS out! Today it's 27-year-old employment lawyer Adam and actor James, 23, and don't they both have GREAT hair. Lovely to have a couple of boys on... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Grandma the Formidable

  In 2011, two weeks before Christmas, my last surviving grandparent died, my paternal grandmother. It is an odd feeling to realise you are a generation up. I hav... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Alice and Tom

  As Vanessa Williams famously sang, "sometimes the snow comes down in June" and while we have been spared a blizzard, June has felt chilly and unwelcoming. This... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Georgie and Matt

  Do you ever lie back on your sofa - or futon if you're in a '90s London yuppie drama - and wonder what is the point of it all? Why bother going to buy artisan... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Nature Or Nurture? Let’s Never Find out

  Nature, nurture, lifestyle choice, whatever. Will we ever truly find out what makes us LGBTQ? The subject of science interfering with sexuality in nature crops... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Josh and Freddie

  

  Two gentlemen sharing the billing on this week's Guardian Blind Date. On the left in the red is Josh, a 26-year-old (it says here) admin assistant and on the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Rafael and Chris

  Here we are again. This week we have two men! There was a time you couldn't move for gay men in the Guardian Blind Date column, it was like 11pm on a Friday... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Grace and Marcin

  

  I like my rituals. Sometimes, to an outsider, they can seem obsessive, or a sign I'm set in my ways, but there's a reason outsiders are outsiders, isn't there?... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Saturday

  I keep moving. I am always moving. I take the stairs, not the lift, never stand on the escalators if on my own, but walk up them instead. I don't pause to look... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Alejandro and Lucy

  

  I'm not a religious person and I invoke the name of God very rarely but I admit I let out a rasping sigh and cited the supposed great creator when I saw this... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Tom and Ciera

  

  I have to be honest, I'm not really here for rebranding Easter as a kind of sexy, sun-kissed Christmas. Christmas is Christmas - exciting, exuberant, extravagan... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Spoon: A Love Story

  What do spoons mean to you? Nothing, perhaps. Maybe beyond their primary functions of stirring tea, shovelling yoghurt into your mouth or, if you're so inclined... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• James and Emily

  

  I'll level with you, my heart didn't exactly lift seventy storeys off the ground when I saw this headline: "Acquired" has to be one of the least sexy words... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Amy and Harry

  We return to the scene of our many previous crimes, the mortuary of hope that is the Guardian Blind Date column, to meet two 24-year-olds who have clearly... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• 14 Reasons Valentine’s Day is Actually a Good Thing

  Here we are again, then. 14th February. Hearts, flowers, huge ecologically destructive helium balloons, cheap chocolates, even cheaper sentiment and lager and... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Charlie and Ben

  This week we have a youthquake: 24-year-old PhD researcher Charlie; Ben, 21, a stage manager; and a chaperone in the shape of Ben's lustrous eyebrows. Read... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX