Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.
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Archer Asks: Jazz singer and activist, Mama Alto

Archer Asks: Jazz singer and activist, Mama Alto

Mama Alto is a gender transcendent diva, cabaret artiste, and community activist. She is a non-binary trans femme person of colour who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness & power...
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Queer eroticism in Catholic iconography

Queer eroticism in Catholic iconography

For every queer Catholic kid raised to believe that other queer and trans people do not exist in the present, much less in the history of our Church, Catholic art history is a path...
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Coming out of compulsory heterosexuality: Guess what? I’m gay!

Coming out of compulsory heterosexuality: Guess what? I’m gay!

It was such a relief to untangle myself from compulsory heterosexuality. It felt freeing.
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Butchness, euphoria and existing defiantly: My gender is butch

Butchness, euphoria and existing defiantly: My gender is butch

Butch is not simply a sexuality, or a way of referring to women who read as traditionally ‘masculine’. It's a way of moving through the world.
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Five steps to successful polyamory

Five steps to successful polyamory

SO YOU AND your squeeze have had the talk. You’ve decided to open up your relationship. Time to hit the local bar/kink party/games night, and soon you and your sweetie will be snuggling up...
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Why straight sex is just as ‘queer’

Why straight sex is just as ‘queer’

UNMARRIED SEX. PORN. Sex toys. Brothels. Heterosexuals dabble in these practices with as much freak and fervour as homosexuals and yet somehow it’s the gay person who threatens heterosexual relationships, the gay person who...
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Why we need to recognise older people’s sexuality

Why we need to recognise older people’s sexuality

OU WOULDN'T BE ALONE in feeling frustrated, isolated, devalued and depressed if you were suddenly labelled “asexual” at your next birthday. Millions of older Australians feel the same way when they’re suddenly assumed to...
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A humbling hello from US ambassador John Berry

A humbling hello from US ambassador John Berry

AND IN HAPPIER news for sexual diversity, we have all been gifted a humbling welcome video from John Berry, the US Ambassador for Australia. Obama's decision to appoint Berry, the first openly gay man...
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Why gender difference is anyone else’s business

Why gender difference is anyone else’s business

For someone who is set apart from the majority by an obvious point of difference, the incessant questioning from the public can become exhausting. Example: I’m a woman in a relationship with a woman....
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Colour Tongues performance night highlights diverse artistry

Colour Tongues performance night highlights diverse artistry

The performance night Colour Tongues has its inaugural event on Friday, 14 October 2016, showcasing queer and trans artists of colour.
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Unpacking shame and prioritising pleasure: Masturbation, sex and hedonism

Unpacking shame and prioritising pleasure: Masturbation, sex and hedonism

Through her work as a sexologist, this author has found unpacking shame and prioritising pleasure a necessary lesson for many of her clients.
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Are transmascs allowed in lesbian spaces? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 7

Are transmascs allowed in lesbian spaces? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 7

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: I'm transmasc, am I welcome at the dyke events?
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Pansexual impostor syndrome: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 6

Pansexual impostor syndrome: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 6

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader: I'm pansexual, and I feel impostor syndrome calling myself queer. Help!
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Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Welcome back to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question from SecretBabyGay: Any dating tips for inexperienced queers?
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Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Anti-porn sentiment isn't new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.
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Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

Queer woman looking to hire a sex worker: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 3

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's question: a queer woman is looking to hire a sex worker to explore her sexuality.
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Queer desire and attraction: Overcoming sexual shame

Queer desire and attraction: Overcoming sexual shame

Shame can be a powerful emotion as a queer person. Recently, shame has centred around my high libido.
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Black+White: Finding my sexuality in a 1990s fashion and art magazine

Black+White: Finding my sexuality in a 1990s fashion and art magazine

In Black+White, it was the tightly framed shots of intertwining limbs, bodies folded over, and skin upon skin that drew me in.
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Queer fairy tales: Finding the ‘fairies’ in classic stories

Queer fairy tales: Finding the ‘fairies’ in classic stories

Retelling is a means of refracting the white beam of light we’ve been given by the fairy tale canon, and revealing the rainbow within.
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For me, naked yoga is the epitome of a pleasure practice – it’s how I connect to the wild child that lives inside me.

It was such a relief to untangle myself from compulsory heterosexuality. It felt freeing.

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