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.

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?

“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.

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.

Welcome back to Phone-a-Dyke, Archer’s queer advice column. Today’s question from SecretBabyGay: Any dating tips for inexperienced queers?

“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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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

Despite the high portion of carers in the LGBTQIA+ community, many of us don’t self-identify as such – we are ‘hidden carers’.

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.

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?

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

From Progress Shark to lesbian literature, activism to polyamory and so much more, here are Archer Magazine’s editors’ top picks for 2023.

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

I can see a future reflected in the community around me; it makes the rainbow family dream I birthed this babe into feel possible again.

Queer platonic intimacy is thus the haunting spectre of a love that does nothing but simply exist. Our love for one another doesn’t do the work for capitalism.

Queerplatonic relationships shift the goalposts of what a relationship ought to be. Better yet, they tear down the game entirely.