Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

I’ve found there’s something beautifully democratic about traditional cruising – the darkness and anonymity working as great equalisers.
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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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Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

"Sex is such an interesting mode of inquiry – a petri dish for gaining knowledge about ourselves and our lusts and limits in the world." Rachel Ang chats to Alex Creece.
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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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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
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Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

What I do know about myself is that I’m neurodivergent, queer, that I feel deeply, and that I have a doubt-driven, unshakeable desire to be loved.
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Queer sexual health: The need for inclusive health care and education

Queer-inclusive clinics tend to be a luxury afforded to those in big cities, but we all deserve a sense of normalcy in sexual health checks.
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Vaginismus flare-ups: Patterns of pain, patience and pleasure

Vaginismus flare-ups: Patterns of pain, patience and pleasure

I was referred to a gynaecologist, where after a brief physical exam, she concluded my pelvic floor had more strain on it than the Nixon administration at the height of Watergate.
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Solo sex in relationships: I am my primary partner

Solo sex in relationships: I am my primary partner

I became my own primary partner. I took the time and care to understand myself more, in the way that I would have taken time and care for a partner in the past.
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Queer sex in the mainstream: Pride and prudishness

Queer sex in the mainstream: Pride and prudishness

As we’ve gained more mainstream visibility, being gay has become more about ‘identity’, with the ‘fucking’ being increasingly sanitised from the queer experience.
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Bipolar disorder and dating: A mad girl’s love song

Bipolar disorder and dating: A mad girl’s love song

Casual sex and dating are complex for someone who is bipolar. How can I live a balanced life when my natural urges are read as a warning sign?
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Sex toys, gender and jerking off in sexually ‘liberated’ America

Sex toys, gender and jerking off in sexually ‘liberated’ America

The resulting mainstream culture around masturbation (including pharmaceutical organisational practices) has become stale, and girlboss-ily gender essentialist.
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Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle

Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.
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Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

I got my hands on Macho Sluts as a young dyke. Reading my way through my lover’s collection of erotic literature was an initiation of sorts.
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Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

As Victoria talked more openly to peers about sex, her interest in it and its relationship to fatness grew.
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Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

I write like all the sex I’ve had is happening now. This is the anatomy of a trans sex scene: ‘now’ is never just now.
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Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy

Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy

With little energy but plenty of desire during cancer treatment, this author found sex had to be left to the professionals.
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Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine's editors' top picks for 2023.
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Archer Asks: Yen-Rong Wong on race, sex, kink and familial expectation

Archer Asks: Yen-Rong Wong on race, sex, kink and familial expectation

Yen-Rong Wong talks about her new book, Me, Her, Us, exploring race, sex, pleasure, kink, familial expectation and identity.
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Sex education in Nigerian households

Sex education in Nigerian households

By improving sex education in Nigeria and destigmatising sex as a shameful act, sex may be enjoyed safely, regardless of gender or sexuality.
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Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

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Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism

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The world-famous Keith Haring mural painted on an exterior wall of a school building in Collingwood, Melbourne, turned 40 years old last year.

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

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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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Drag and flowers in Hyderabad: ‘Mandakini’ photo series

By: Patruni Sastry

There was a sense of danger and adventure in leaving the house as a queer drag queen, heading to a flower market in Hyderabad.

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Archer Asks: Author Kaya Ortiz on queer Filipino poetics, pop culture and being alien

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“These poems are really just owning my different identities – Filipino, lesbian, queer – without shame.” Kaya Ortiz chats with Alex Creece.

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Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

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We’re thrilled to welcome you to Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue. Join our launch event on 14 June 2025 at LCI Melbourne.

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Archer Asks: Author Micaela Sahhar on memory, revenge and Palestinian legacies

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“We, the diaspora, are an important part of the work of liberation, alongside Palestinian people who remained.” Micaela Sahhar chats to Alex Creece.

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Come and join us as we celebrate the launch of Archer Studio, and the release of Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue.

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Queer Fashion Files: Interview with ace icon Allie Daisy King

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For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring content creator and ace icon Allie Daisy King.

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Are socks lesbian culture? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 1

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Welcome to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s new queer advice column. Today’s question: Are socks lesbian culture?

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