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.

As we’ve gained more mainstream visibility, being gay has become more about ‘identity’, with the ‘fucking’ being increasingly sanitised from the queer experience.

“It’s okay to not always feel like you have the reins when you’re making decisions in your life.” mxmtoon chats to Archer Magazine.

Let me say this for the record: people who hold and express fatphobic convictions may identify as queer, but they certainly are not embodying queerness.

“From chanting in the streets to a whispered song, this is how we carry our stories from one person to the next, from one generation to the next.” Jazz Money chats to Archer Magazine.

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.

“I wouldn’t be half the artist I am today if I hadn’t lost everything before it.” Magnets, aka Siobhan McGinnity, chats to Alex Creece.

We’re shooting ‘MotherFuckers’, an explicit documentary about porn star parents. I trace the sleeping bump inside my uterus—I am six months pregnant.

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring textile artist Kate Just.

The notion that drag storytime events are anything but positive, wholesome and uplifting is just rooted in fear and misinformation. It’s essential that we confront that narrative.

“I know that poetry is political. I know also that it’s inseparable from action.”
Hasib Hourani chats to Archer Magazine.

When we have spaces to be our authentic selves, neurodivergent queer people can find a genuine sense of community and belonging.

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?

“I am in awe of Palestinian women. I have never seen such extraordinary patience, resilience and love for family.” Samah Sabawi chats to Archer Magazine.

In 1993, my mum recorded an album, Sung in my Lover’s Bedroom, a collection of tracks that were explicit acts of feminist & lesbian activism.

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

For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring RA*UCH, a fashion label by Cierra Rauch.

Everywhere I turned felt like a trap that led to more confusion, doubt and shame. I wasn’t afraid of being gay – I was afraid that I was lying about it.

By virtue of experiencing genital trauma at the hands of surgeons, I cannot help but feel aligned with the intersex community.

With T4T: A Transgender Showcase, for once we’re not coming together to defend our humanity, we’re coming together to celebrate it.

I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness, and in its consequent proximity to shame and otherness.

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.