Welcome to Archer Magazine #11: the GAZE issue. (Let’s be clear: That’s ‘GAZE’, not ‘GAYS’.)

Living through coercive treatment, the AIDS crisis and homelessness, this author continues to survive the trauma of the psychiatric system.

Phone-a-Dyke is our very queer advice column. We want your questions on sex, dating, sexuality, sex toys, gender, kink, polyamory and more.

As an Iranian-Australian, I feel a specific guilt that many second-generation immigrants know well.

It feels pretty great to have energy, to have desire. To feel hunger again. For the first time in years, I feel alive. 

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.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring creative duo Nicol & Ford.

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?

Free Palestine activists resist local forces of oppression, fascism and colonialism, mobilising and finding strength as a community.

I’ve frequented gay bars in Melbourne, and still do, but none of them have the beating heart of lesbian community that Third Rodeo does for me.

“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.

Welcome to the last instalment of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I feel dead inside.

Welcome back to Jess Ison’s recap of The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2, where there are sex playlists, açai bowls, and heart eyes aplenty.

Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.

I am going to review The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2. I must confess: I tried season one, and I lasted about half an episode before the extremely problematic behaviour was too much to bear.

Capitalism, neoliberalism and the myth of meritocracy fuel impostor syndrome by insisting that individuals alone are responsible for our success or failure. This is a lie.

Romanticising uniquely ‘feminine’ ways of suffering is like plastering a Hello Kitty bandaid over a bruise.

Peek the brilliant photos from our Archer Studio launch party. Thank you for being so lovely and hot, everyone.

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.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we attend Australian Fashion Week and chat with designer Gary Bigeni.

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).

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.

Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.