Research - masthead ideas

 I want to explore representations and really play around with gender identity as a malleable concept. 

Initial ideas and phrases: 

• against the grain
• against norms
• gradient
• spectrum 
• fluidity
• androgyny 

Both gender and sexuality can be described as a spectrum, so I think that it could be a good name for my magazine. 'Across the spectrum' could be a tagline or used for a call to action. The gender spectrum visualizes gender as a continuum stretching from men to women and masculine to feminine. Gender identities other than man or woman are considered to be non-binary. 

I could use something like these for my logo, and choose one of the colours to use for my main theme and masthead. I am thinking of using the colour green as it isn't as commercially gendered as red, pink, blue, purple etc. 

An example of a gay magazine is DIVA, their main colour is purple and is mostly catered towards WLW and non-binary people. They use the space next to their name to showcase that edition's main focus - in this case lesbian visibility week.