Archer Asks: Author Momo Chavez on writing sex work and strip club culture

Archer Asks: Author Momo Chavez on writing sex work and strip club culture

"We need more stories written by sex workers for sex workers!" Momo Chavez chats to Archer Magazine.
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Queerplatonic relationships: Not friendship, not dating, but a secret third thing

Queerplatonic relationships: Not friendship, not dating, but a secret third thing

Queerplatonic relationships shift the goalposts of what a relationship ought to be. Better yet, they tear down the game entirely.
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Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

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.
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A lesbian and a non-binary bisexual in love: On language and queer solidarity

A lesbian and a non-binary bisexual in love: On language and queer solidarity

I want us to reclaim lesbianism from the clammy hands of TERFs. Being a lesbian isn’t about vaginas, femininity, ‘gold stars’ or exclusion.
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Gastroparesis and emotional abuse: How chronic illness helped me heal

Gastroparesis and emotional abuse: How chronic illness helped me heal

It feels pretty great to have energy, to have desire. To feel hunger again. For the first time in years, I feel alive. 
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How to make LGBTQIA+ friends in a new place

How to make LGBTQIA+ friends in a new place

There isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to making new LGBTQIA+ friends, but here are some ideas of how you can get out there and find your people.
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How do I find queer mums looking for love? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 4

How do I find queer mums looking for love? Phone-a-Dyke Episode 4

It's Phone-a-Dyke, Archer's queer advice column. Today's reader is ready to date the queer mum of their dreams, but where to find her?
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Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

Archer Asks: Musician Montaigne on fish as a queer metaphor

"Fish felt like an apt metaphor for my own experience with being alive, for my relationship with my mum, for being queer." Montaigne chats to Alex Creece.
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Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

I thought I would be safe from the horrors of sexual violence in my queer feminist utopia. But it was within that sapphic bubble where I was assaulted.
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Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).
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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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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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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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In love with my best friend: Queer girl ‘friendships’ and Olivia Rodrigo

In love with my best friend: Queer girl ‘friendships’ and Olivia Rodrigo

I recently read that it’s a ‘canon’ event for queer girls to have a huge blow-out break-up with a close girl friend from high school.
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Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

The thing is, yes, I really do want a label for my demisexuality. The finding of this word, and of the community that uses it, was life-changing.
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Is ChatGPT gay? On queer connection and artificial intelligence

Is ChatGPT gay? On queer connection and artificial intelligence

Like a lover, ChatGPT responds instantly to my touch. I give input; it puts out. But I don’t know if my conflicted feelings are enough to call it queer.
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Archer Asks: Author Rae White on gender diversity in children’s literature

Archer Asks: Author Rae White on gender diversity in children’s literature

"Those small acts of support – say, a parent affirming their child's self-expression – create a profound ripple effect." Rae White chats to Alex Creece.
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The most read pieces of 2024: Palestinian liberation, dyke erotica and disabled pleasure

The most read pieces of 2024: Palestinian liberation, dyke erotica and disabled pleasure

From drag storytime to intersex solidarity to neuro-inclusive spaces, here are Archer Magazine's most read online pieces of 2024.
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Queering girls’ friendships: Beyond the euphemisms

Queering girls’ friendships: Beyond the euphemisms

I was twenty-two when my best friend asked me to promise I’d never love my boyfriend more than I loved her. It wasn’t hard to promise. I’d met this boyfriend while Sarah and I...
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LGBTQIA+ carers: Queer people providing unpaid care

LGBTQIA+ carers: Queer people providing unpaid care

Despite the high portion of carers in the LGBTQIA+ community, many of us don’t self-identify as such – we are ‘hidden carers’.
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From sex work to straight boy crushes, neurodivergence to Palestinian literature, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2025.

Even though, deep down, I wanted to believe he would be okay with my HIV status if he truly understood that he was not at risk of infection, I feared rejection.

From sissification to trans mythology, impostor syndrome to werewolves, cruising, and much more, these are the online editors’ top picks of 2025.

“We need more stories written by sex workers for sex workers!” Momo Chavez chats to Archer Magazine.

The truth is, you can’t ask, “What makes someone butch?” without also asking what makes someone cis, trans or non-binary. The borders blur. The categories leak.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we chat to artist Jarrad Levy, known for his queer headshots and fetish photography.

Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references, history and storytelling.

Since coming out as trans, I find myself suddenly scared of traversing the sorts of barriers I was crossing solo at 14, 15, 16 years old.

Shame can be a powerful emotion as a queer person. Recently, shame has centred around my high libido.

Once I started taking testosterone, I made an album that documented the way my voice changed.

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