Inside a shining office block in Whitechapel sits the headquarters of PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ news website. When PinkNews was first founded by 23-year-old Benjamin Cohen in July 2005, it was a revolution.
The first major gay online news outlet in Britain, as well as one of the first in the world, staffed by a young, enigmatic gay man, who also happened to be Britain’s first dotcom millionaire. Cohen ran the website with a skeleton staff; one other full-time editor and a handful of freelancers. He was touted in the press as a British Zuckerberg.
