"Lesbians are entitled to read trash as much as anyone else... So long as that's balanced by ambitious fiction as well, it's much healthier if there's a range of stuff."

"I'd always rather do a small gay event than a bigger more anonymous bookshop event."

• LGBT History Month The UK's first ever LGBT History Month took place in February 2005. Velvet magazine looks at the good, the bad and the ugly press quotes.
• Wordfest a look at the books appearing at Cambridge Wordfest
• Civil Partnerships Tracey Clare-Gray examines the new 'gay marriage' legislation.
• The Emotional Body Julian Sedgwick Explores dis-ease, denial, well-being and Shiatsu.
• Poetry Poems from Jackie Kay and Sharon Bridgforth.

• Patty Nazo - Sex, chocolate and US Madness
• V.G. Lee - A letter from The Coast
• Life Coach Lynda Benham - Getting Personal

• Parenting - Harvey Milk High - A safe place or an affront to God?
• Media - Jerry Springer: The Opera
• Down There - Explaining that fishy smell
• Word Play - a look at polari/gay slang