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Having a shorter stature may be beneficial for living a longer life. Research suggests that people who are shorter may…

Name: Cumulative social advantage.Age: If it exists, it’s always been there.Appearance: Strictly speaking, it looks like everyone else.Everyone else? You…

John McAvoy sat in a holding cell in Belmarsh prison, waiting to be processed, plotting his escape. It was 2007,…

‘Are you sure you want that one?” asks the assistant in the flagship Waterstones store in Piccadilly, London. I’d picked…

I’m a gay man in my late 40s. Since the age of 19, I’ve spent many, mostly enjoyable, years engaging…

Fake it till you make it, the saying goes. But what happens when you’ve “made it” but still feel like…

I have a crippling fear of judgment and being perceived negatively. Having grown up in a household where mockery was…

My partner has always been aroused by gay sexual acts and only really manages to have sex with this stimulus.…

At home in Melbourne’s Carlton North, Melissa Leong is feeling apprehensive. She’s preparing to spend the day talking about her…

When the urge became impossible to ignore, Sarah Cook bought a touring bike and an “all-singing, all-dancing four-season tent”, and…