From drag storytime to intersex solidarity to neuro-inclusive spaces, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In rural places, safe spaces for queer people look different to those located in metropolitan areas.

I originally attended the Melbourne premiere of Happiest Season in 2020 at the Coburg Drive-In, alongside every Naarm lesbian with their Subarus. And I tried to blot it from my memory. I can confidently say that it is worse on a re-watch.

From Jessica Rabbit to trans music to trash television, here are Archer Magazine’s most read online pieces of 2023.

The Matildas were unofficially named the gayest team of the 32 teams who participated in the WWC: 13 of the 23-player squad are openly queer.

I took refuge in the archives of lesbian literature, which felt like the only way I could connect to my community and their history.

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.

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 weeks exists for a reason, and some people don’t shoo their dog off the bed before having sex. 

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. Is this a good idea?

Welcome to my Archer queer film review! This month: is Imagine Me & You better than Better Than Chocolate, the infamous 90s lesbian film?

G Flip is at the wedding with someone who sells real estate. My editor has informed me her name is Chrishell and she sells real estate on a reality show and apparently some of you queers love her? I am far too sophisticated for reality TV. Now back to Gen Q.

I want us to reclaim lesbianism from the clammy hands of TERFs. Being a lesbian isn’t about vaginas, femininity, ‘gold stars’ or exclusion.

We have had a lot of cameos this season but the cameo we all want is yet to happen. You all know to whom I am referring: Jenny. Let’s hope she rises from the dead, on the back of a manatee, in the season finale.

It’s cool to have some demisexual representation and I was really hoping this episode would explore this more, culminating in Carrie and Misty getting hot and heavy. Instead, it literally devolves into poo humour.

When Fletcher says, “This is the type of sapphic drama I live for!” I thought, really? The sapphic drama I live for has way more polycules and vegan nut loafs.

I just had to walk away from my computer and make a chamomile tea to try to calm myself down. Fuck, I hope this show doesn’t get renewed for another season ’cause I can’t go on writing these reviews.

As 2022 comes to a close, we can’t help but get reflective and sentimental – cue the smiling single tear emoji – about all the wonderful articles we’ve edited this year.

It’s important to me that people feel the queer love and joy in my work. It’s important that people are able to see themselves in my work.