Archer Asks: The Beaches on Aries rage, ‘Silver Springs’ and making music out of breakup gossip

Archer Asks: The Beaches on Aries rage, ‘Silver Springs’ and making music out of breakup gossip

Archer Magazine chatted to The Beaches about their new single with G Flip, about rage in music and queer visibility.
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Archer Asks: Courtney Barnett on searching for signs and being a Scorpio

Archer Asks: Courtney Barnett on searching for signs and being a Scorpio

Archer Magazine talks to Courtney Barnett about her new album 'Creature of Habit', listening to signs from the universe, and 'Shark Tank'.
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Badass female video game characters for the gays: Playing like a girl

Badass female video game characters for the gays: Playing like a girl

So what was it about these digital divas that enraptured my little gay mind – and over a smorgasbord of hunks no less?
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Archer Asks: Riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna on sexuality, marriage and music

Archer Asks: Riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna on sexuality, marriage and music

"I wanted to know what I was besides a sick person. Every time I play music, I’m like, this is really who I am." Kathleen Hanna chats to Archer Magazine.
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A hip hop artist for marriage equality? Really?

A hip hop artist for marriage equality? Really?

Was this the anthem of sexual equality our generation needed to hear? Or was it the commercialisation of an issue wrapped in cotton wool and hand-delivered from the safety of a straight man's recording studio?...
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Lesbian painting: Storytelling and reclamation through art

Lesbian painting: Storytelling and reclamation through art

Each portrait begins with a conversation. My subject and I talk about whatever they choose to share: love and loss, coming out, the journey toward self-acceptance and understanding.
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Twilight’s queer renaissance: Sparkly vampires, lust and Kristen Stewart

Twilight’s queer renaissance: Sparkly vampires, lust and Kristen Stewart

The recent ‘Twilight Renaissance’, as coined by online communities, has seen a queering of the text that was not the author’s intention.
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Polybaiting in media: The fear of queer possibilities

Polybaiting in media: The fear of queer possibilities

Look, I don’t need every movie to turn into a polyamorous group hug. But I do need creators to stop pretending like we’re not all seeing what we’re seeing.
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Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Halle Robbe of Girls Carrying Shit

Queer Fashion Files: In the big apple with Halle Robbe of Girls Carrying Shit

This month, we went to New York City and chatted to founder of Girls Carrying Shit and editor-in-chief of 'pinky' the magazine, Halle Robbe.
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Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’

Archer Asks: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on queer yearning, feral lyrics and ‘Jennifer’s Body’

Ahead of their tour dates in so-called Australia, we chatted to Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale about queer yearning, feral lyrics and eggs.
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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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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ season 2 episodes 8-10: “There’s a cat. Is that a bad sign?”

Welcome to the last instalment of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I feel dead inside.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

What a wild ride. Thanks for coming along for the journey with me. They better renew The Ultimatum: Queer Love or I’m rioting. I love gay people.
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

Welcome to the recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love episodes 5-8, where we learn that love is a lie, Lexi has a hot mum, the stereotype of lesbians saying "I love you" after 2.5...
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‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

Four episodes drop at a time. I watched them all three glasses of boxed white wine deep, fresh from a devastating gay breakup and days after Taylor Swift surprise-dropped her saddest breakup song yet....
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A guide to Yarra River beats

A guide to Yarra River beats

A Guide to the Yarra River's Beats by Sam Wallman. Sam Wallman is a Melbourne-based cartoonist. He has published four books of drawings, in which he captures the ridiculous, the visceral and the personal...
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Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Uboa and Liturgy’s music acknowledges the trans rage of disempowerment, and how unleashing that rage can create a sense of self-affirmation.
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Celebrate the launch of Archer Magazine – The DISABILITIES issue

Celebrate the launch of Archer Magazine – The DISABILITIES issue

Archer Magazine Issue #16 will curate stories, images and art about sex, gender and identity by people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses.
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Archer’s MQFF picks: Traversing gender, sexuality and disability on the big screen

Archer’s MQFF picks: Traversing gender, sexuality and disability on the big screen

Deciding which films to attend with the myriad on offer at this year's Melbourne Queer Film Festival? Don't stress – we've made this painstaking task easy.
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Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2017: Our must-see picks

Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2017: Our must-see picks

With an eclectic and exciting mix of genres and cultural perspectives, this year’s Brisbane Queer Film Festival offers viewers insight into queer and trans identities, narratives and communities from across Australia and the world....
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DJ Estée Louder chats to Archer Magazine about dancefloor politics, queer electronica spaces and dyke history.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to legendary musician Kaiit about culture, fashion and the importance of caring (lots!).

Archer Magazine spoke to Melbourne Theatre Company about ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and the enduring queer legacy of Tennessee Williams.

My Chosen Family, strewn across every stretch of this landmass, have built the very foundation from which I have been able to flourish.

“I try to convey the diverse reality and complexity of what queer and trans refugees and migrants experience, and not just some kumbaya fantasy of everyone sharing resources and taking care of each other.” Bobuq Sayed chats to Alex Creece.

“I don’t think questioning tradition is disrespectful. I think refusing to question it is far more dangerous.” Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai chats to Dhriti Gandham.

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.

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.

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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