Archer Asks: MUNA on astrology, queer-coded cartoons and sad dance bangers

Archer Asks: MUNA on astrology, queer-coded cartoons and sad dance bangers

MUNA spoke to Archer Magazine about their astrological charts, Meg from Hercules being bisexual and making sad music with thumping basslines.
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Catholicism, leather and BDSM: Histories of queer religious kink

Catholicism, leather and BDSM: Histories of queer religious kink

Perhaps it’s for this reason that many people who were raised Catholic – including LGBTQIA+ folks – explore or connect so deeply with kink culture, where spiritual masochism yields sexual gratification.
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Translating culture and queerness: My father never said I love you, he asked what noodles I wanted

Translating culture and queerness: My father never said I love you, he asked what noodles I wanted

I found myself navigating two kinds of code-switching simultaneously: adjusting for culture at work, and adjusting for identity almost everywhere else.
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Tops vs bottoms for queers: How do I know what I am? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 8

Tops vs bottoms for queers: How do I know what I am? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 8

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader wants to know: How do I know if I'm a top or a bottom?
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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

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

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

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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MUNA spoke to Archer Magazine about their astrological charts, Meg from Hercules being bisexual and making sad music with thumping basslines.

I found myself navigating two kinds of code-switching simultaneously: adjusting for culture at work, and adjusting for identity almost everywhere else.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader is having a quite unpleasant butch-femme conversation with a friend.

The labels of ‘mother’ and ‘doll’ arose from Black and Latina trans women’s will to survive. It’s our responsibility to regard these roots with respect.

“Leatherdyke culture really came out of the sex wars, on the more positive side of sex work and kink exploring,” Rowan tells me.

Perhaps it’s for this reason that many people who were raised Catholic – including LGBTQIA+ folks – explore or connect so deeply with kink culture, where spiritual masochism yields sexual gratification.

“You can’t always talk about where you’re from, but you can cook it.” Alvin Quah chats to Alex Creece.

It’s Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s reader needs advice making queer friends in a new city they’re finding cliquey.

I want a world where all people, but particularly those most marginalised, get to do what they want to do and be supported in it. It’s as simple as that, really.

As part of the disabled community myself, I feel strongly that I’m not a hero for being a carer. I’m just a person who’s doing what I feel is right.

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