As we’ve gained more mainstream visibility, being gay has become more about ‘identity’, with the ‘fucking’ being increasingly sanitised from the queer experience.

“It’s okay to not always feel like you have the reins when you’re making decisions in your life.” mxmtoon chats to Archer Magazine.

Let me say this for the record: people who hold and express fatphobic convictions may identify as queer, but they certainly are not embodying queerness.

“From chanting in the streets to a whispered song, this is how we carry our stories from one person to the next, from one generation to the next.” Jazz Money chats to Archer Magazine.

Before the COVID pandemic, I’d join a dating app and worry about whether I’d get any matches, or whether the picture of me in my wheelchair would scare people off.

“I wouldn’t be half the artist I am today if I hadn’t lost everything before it.” Magnets, aka Siobhan McGinnity, chats to Alex Creece.

We’re shooting ‘MotherFuckers’, an explicit documentary about porn star parents. I trace the sleeping bump inside my uterus—I am six months pregnant.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring textile artist Kate Just.

The notion that drag storytime events are anything but positive, wholesome and uplifting is just rooted in fear and misinformation. It’s essential that we confront that narrative.

“I know that poetry is political. I know also that it’s inseparable from action.”
Hasib Hourani chats to Archer Magazine.