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

Blurred image of a person in a dimly lit room.

Sexual violence in sapphic spaces: It lives in your chest

Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Cruising IRL: Off the apps and back to the beat

Keith Haring’s legacy: Queer art, optimism and activism

Inexperienced queer seeks dating tips: Phone-a-Dyke Episode 2

Archer Magazine #21: the ART issue

Archer Asks: Graphic novelist Rachel Ang on desire and the changing body

Queer and trans improv comedy: Playing with gender

Mannequins in the window of a sex shop, with neon lights reflecting from the street outside.

Porn, queerness and moral panic: The new old sex wars

Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

Archer Asks: Buon-Cattivi Press on queer disability justice and creativity

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

Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Gippius’ queer allegories: Trans mermaids in Russian literature

Transness, disability and chronic pain: Inhabiting a body that resists

A collage of suburban Bristol, England, with the quote: "I’ve always been looking to find the message that, at my most intimate and vulnerable, I’m actually repulsive."

Self-love, neurodivergence and sex: Finding peace with all my selves

Archer Asks: Rex Letoa Paget on fa’afatama identity and healing through poetry

A collage of lesbian pulp novels by Monica Nolan.

Archer Asks: Pulp author Monica Nolan on lesbian horse girls

Two figures connecting through a yellow rectangle, representing a queer connection with ChatGPT.

Is ChatGPT gay? On queer connection and artificial intelligence

Rae White and the front cover of their children's book, 'All the Colours of the Rainbow'.

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

Image of the author with a freshly shaven head, with the quote: "I was trying to figure out why I felt that shaving my head would be the way I could come back to myself."

Shaving my head as a queer person: Gender and growing pains

Header with pictures of Kira Puru and the title "Queer Fashion Files in talks with Kira Puru".

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with multi-hyphenate artist Kira Puru

Queer sexual health: The need for inclusive health care and education

Archer Asks: Author Cavar on madness, abolition and body modification

Vaginismus flare-ups: Patterns of pain, patience and pleasure

Eileen Myles sitting on their bed with books and papers.

Archer Asks: Poet Eileen Myles on pathetic literature, rescue dogs and puppetry

Compulsory heterosexuality in dance: Did the dance studio make me straight?

Linh Uendo

Mixed-race drag artistry: Painting with two cultures

A collage of Archer article headers, with text that reads "our most read pieces of 2024."

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

Two people holding hands with rainbows painted on their arms to represent LGBTQIA+ carers.

LGBTQIA+ carers: Queer people providing unpaid care

A Q&A with Judith Butler: Gender fear, fascism and TERFs

A header featuring five queer artists at the Queer/Trans Zine Fest.

Archer Asks: Five queer artists on superheroes, erotica and top surgery in art

A compilation of Joely Malcolm with the heading "Queer Fashion Files" in ransom-style collage letters.

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with fashionista Joely Malcolm

totaly tommy looking out the passenger window of a car.

Archer Asks: Musician total tommy on grunge vibes and self-discovery

Solo sex in relationships: I am my primary partner

Two naked queer men with a quote that reads: "Isolation from the mainstream still haunts many queer people. Luckily, it comes with its positives, too – like the ability to imagine the world differently."

Queer sex in the mainstream: Pride and prudishness

mxmtoon in a silk dress sitting among vines.

Archer Asks: Queer artist mxmtoon on personal agency and feminism

Jazz Money

Archer Asks: Poet and artist Jazz Money on Blak queer truth-telling

Two masked people having a cuddle at a COVID-safer dating and social event.

Dating as a queer, disabled and COVID-cautious person

Magnets, aka Siobhan McGinnity, in a pile of colourful mannequin legs.

Archer Asks: Musician Magnets on creativity, hearing loss and sapphic glam

A series of knitted signs by Kate Just.

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with textile artist Kate Just

Bipolar disorder and dating: A mad girl’s love song

Image of fingers dipped in honey with a quote overlayed: " This limited view of gender – you’re either a primally horny cis man or a modern, sophisticatedly horny cis woman – benefits few."

Sex toys, gender and jerking off in sexually ‘liberated’ America

A person lying on 'Rage Makes Me Feel Pretty' shirts designed by RA*UCH.

Queer Fashion Files: RA*UCH by Cierra Rauch

Line work representing the author's body.

Intersex experiences and bottom dysphoria: Story of a hymenectomy

Trans-only spaces: An interview with the team from T4T: A Transgender Showcase

Alice Wong on a red background with the words 'The Pleasure Principle'.

Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle

Macho Sluts and Love Lies Bleeding: Patrick Califia’s lesbian erotic classic lives on

The Huxleys dressed as glittery tennis balls on a tennis court, as part of 'The Winner Takes It All'.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘The Winner Takes It All’ by The Huxleys

Two people holding hands.

Sex, fatness and overcoming shame

A stray cat, which is one of the metaphors used to describe non-binary identity in literature.

Non-binary bodies in non-fiction: From stray cats to endless oceans

Images of a naked person in nature, taken by J Davies and exhibited in The Future Feels Familiar.

Archer Asks: Artists J Davies and Scarlett Mallia on queer self-expression

Side-by-side images of models' faces, taken by Ella Maximillion.

Queer Fashion Files: Photographer Ella Maximillion

Cher Tan

Archer Asks: Essayist and critic Cher Tan on weirdness, hyperreality and capitalism

Femme rage, hysteria and catharsis: Good for her

A model wearing Sable Jewellery.

Queer Fashion Files: Interview with Sable Jewellery

Iniko

Archer Asks: Popstar Iniko on celestial music and infinite queer possibilities

Beauty, family history and Chinese diaspora: Returning home

The cast of Trophy Boys posing on a tram.

Trophy Boys: Queering the horrors and hopes of masculinity

Mx. Sly.

Trans sex and storytelling: The anatomy of a trans sex scene

Queer Fashion Files: Photographer Sulaiman “Sully” Enayatzada

A pair of hands painted in purple glitter, reaching out to each other and representing community, connection and coming out.

Coming out as disabled

Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

Two trans and gender diverse older people.

Older trans and gender diverse people: ‘Foreground’ photo series

Alex Creece holding up three copies of her new book, 'Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth'.

Archer Asks: Author and artist Alex Creece on collage, ratbag antics and feral poetry

A person lying on green and lilac silk bedding, looking up at the camera. Taken by Lexi Laphor.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Street Style’ by Lexi Laphor

Wavy sand on the beach.

Queer rural places as safe spaces

Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system

Side-by-side headshots of Janet Anderson and Thea Raveneau, stars of 'Overflow'.

Archer Asks: Janet Anderson and Thea Raveneau, stars of all-trans theatre production ‘Overflow’

Archer Asks: Artist Paul Yore on trash, psychedelia and sobriety

A header that says "THE QUEER FASHION FILES" and features a selection of fashion editorials from 2023.

Queer fashion round-up of 2023

Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy

Blak sovereignty, the Matildas and queer polyamorous parenting: Our editors’ top picks for 2023

A portrait taken by Jade Florence of a person flicking their braids in the air.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Shifting’ by Jade Florence

A collage of Archer's most read pieces of 2023.

The most read pieces of 2023: Queerplatonic love, neurodivergent art and trans music

A grey charcoal drawing of a silhouette standing alone, representing a trans person's experiences of prison.

Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

Queering the parenting narrative: On co-parenting, uncoupling and polyamory

Milo Hartill, a queer performer, photographed by Jacinta Oaten.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘The Lavender Haze’ by Jacinta Oaten

Alexi as a teen with flowers in his hair.

Emerging from the shadows: A queer teen in 1990s Tasmania

Queer-coded fairy tale characters, the frog prince and Faithful Heinrich.

Queer fairy tales: Finding the ‘fairies’ in classic stories

Archer Asks: Mo’Ju on their latest album Oro, Plata, Mata

A person staring at the camera and wearing an outfit with a Ben Day-style dot pattern. They're holding fabric featuring a baby head printed in the same style. This design is by the label Jimmy D.

Queer Fashion Files: Jimmy D by James Dobson

A rainbow background with players from The Matildas women's soccer team collaged on top.

The Matildas’ lasting queer legacy: Green, gold and gay

Justin Bieber, a white young man, stands on a red carpet in a close up photo. He is wearing a denim vest with a hood, has short brown styled up hair and is looking smouldering toward the right of the camera.

Justin Bieber and my trans masculinity

Yen-Rong Wong and her book, Me, Her, Us.

Archer Asks: Yen-Rong Wong on race, sex, kink and familial expectation

Leonardo da Vinci’s queer life: Taken out of the picture

The Huxleys striking a pose with glittery blue faces and red lips, orange capes and beehive wigs. They have gold adorned jumpsuits and flowers on their crotches.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Bloodlines’ by The Huxleys

A condom on orange wrapping, to represent sex education in Nigerian households.

Sex education in Nigerian households

Queer platonic intimacy: A love letter to my housemate

A model wearing a Spitsubishi tank top.

Queer Fashion Files: Spitsubishi by Jordan Greig

Cry Club is creating a queer space for you to be whoever you want to be

A person's silhouette holding three colourful balloons.

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

Shoes and legs featuring designs by Nathaniel Youkhana.

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Braided Pleasure’ by Nathaniel Youkhana

Home as a dystopia: Transphobia, ableism and domestic abuse

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ finale & reunion recap: “Surprise, I’m gay, surprise!”

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 5-8 recap: “People just offer me unconditional love”

The Ultimatum: Queer Love recap

‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’ episodes 1-4 recap: “I fingered you”

A person with a pink beehive hairstyle, tattoos and funky jewellery sitting at a table in a retro-styled room. Taken by Liz Ham.

Queer Fashion Files: Liz Ham photographs the artists of ‘Absolutely Queer’

Queer film review: Imagine Me & You

A hand emerging from pink streamers, holding a disco ball and inviting the viewer to party at Eurovision.

Loving Eurovision as a trans woman

Queer Fashion Files: ‘Made in Heaven’ by Chi Montmorency

Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

The terror of queer trauma: Horror in the New Queer Cinema Movement

Catching the light: Reclaiming opera as a trans Arab

A person stares into the sunset on top of a watch tower. It is the title image of Queer dating in rural America

Queer dating in rural America: Inexperience and isolation

Legalising polygamy in Australia: A marriage of many loves

Archer Asks: Madison Godfrey, author of Dress Rehearsals

Mimi Zhu on chosen family and healing: Be Not Afraid of Love

Gender, madness and psychiatric care: Colour me a mad woman

Artificial intelligence and gender: Imagining queer possibilities

‘They/Them’: Queer slasher misses the mark on conversion therapy

From Manila to Melbourne: A big, brown and baffled trans experience

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

Five years after ‘Yes’: Marriage equality and the wedding industry

A cropped image of the front cover of 'Queer Silence'.

Queer Silence: Neuroqueer bodyminds, conversion therapy and survival

A person in fishnets putting on high heels.

Queer horror, Tori Amos and the sex work community: Our editors’ top picks for 2022

Queerness, photography and sensuality: A Q&A with Wondra

The most read pieces of 2022: Trans sex, bisexual joy and purity culture

Two naked people exploring a forest.

Nature, femininity and everyday magic: Floating fairies

The setting of a vintage-looking Christian school. Old wooden student desks line the room, with the front of the room a blackboard with white chalk on it, a wooden cross and two religious images in frames hanging on the wall.

Queer at a Christian school: Religion and homophobia

A group of bi+ people looking fierce.

Blak, bi and not a guy: On intersecting identities

Sydney WorldPride: Archer’s Top Picks

Madonna: An icon and sex-positive assault survivor

A person covering their face with their hands.

Mixed-race erasure and racism: Are we ready to talk about brown-skinned experiences?

A parent hugging their child.

Sex education and parenting: Great sexpectations

Archer Asks: Non-binary poet Rae White on trans storytelling and gender euphoria

A group of bi+ people looking fierce.

Bisexual pride: How to thrive as a bi+ person

A person with a yellow tshirt and a gray shirt over the top is putting their hand toward the camera. They are holding a person who is standing to the left of the camera's hand, appearing as though they are leading them.

Courage and queerness: On learning bravery from each other

A tattooed person holding sunflowers.

Tattoos, queerness and coming out: Changing all the time

The performers of Yuck Circus lie in a bathtub holding a giant disco ball, with outrageous flashy outfits

Archer Asks: YUCK Circus on queer art and drunken nights out

A picture of Georgie Stone staring out a car window.

The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone: On activism, trans rights and representation

Two people sit on a bed holding hands, they're only visible up to their shoulders.

Glorifying sex and the race to lose your virginity

Part of the cover of 'Nothing to Hide'. The word 'Voices of trans and gender diverse Australia' are visible, along with flowers and hearts.

Nothing to Hide: The Magic Art of Not Giving a Fuck

In a dark hallway, a person wearing a yellow raincoat stands in a door frame. Across the hallway, several hands are reaching toward them.

Queer horror films: Our traumas deserve to be explored

A group of bi+ people looking fierce.

Dating as a bisexual man: The joy of holding space

Elvin Lam dancing.

Deafness and dance: Q&A with Elvin Lam

Various birth control supplies on a brightly coloured background.

Birth control as a non-binary person: I just want to fuck

Two young boys smiling as illustrated leaves fall around them. This image is for an article about queer representation.

Queer representation, Netflix and grief: Seeing myself on screen

An image taken by photographer Spyros Rent. Two people lie seductively in a dry forest area. A third person crouches nearby.

Queer intimacy and community: Q&A with Spyros Rennt

The author Frankie has long dark brown hair and is wearing a blue singlet. They are writing Trans And Proud in the mirror with lipstick.

How to be a good ally to transgender people

A church steeple with a cross on top and blue sky behind it. It is the header image for this piece on being Agender and Agnostic.

Agender and agnostic: On non-binary and spiritual identity

Sisters, gender and tense conversations: A drop of blood in a wine glass

Tori Amos, a singer is on stage singing into a microphone. She has long red hair and glasses, a stripy shirt and playing two pianos at the same time. Behind her are blue stage lights.

Processing emotional abuse: Tori Amos helped me heal

The back of a person's head. In front of them is a long aisle of a church, with pews and an alter. Embolic of this article regarding purity culture.

Purity culture and its grip on social media

Queer film reviews: Better Than Chocolate

A person with a white long wig and elf ears stares into the camera. They are a LARP character; they have dark lipstick and a flower crown.

Queer LARP: Exploring gender and sexuality through Live Action Role Play

Queer trauma and the workplace: How employers can get it right

Two people are reading a book together.

Compulsory heterosexuality and the healing power of queer historical fiction

Non-Binary People’s Day: A roundup of pieces from non-binary writers

The Batik Series: Q&A with Daniel Adams

Nature worship & fat liberation: Q&A with Shoog McDaniel

Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

Sexuality labels and their limits

Women’s sport, authenticity and the power of inclusion

Thandiwe Muriu’s vibrant portraits bring Kenyan culture to the fore

Intergenerational friendship: The dads are alright

Gender euphoria: Trans friendships and a creative journey

Queer envy: gratitude and resentment

Glistening segments of blood orange are held in the palm of one hand, touched lightly by the fingers of another.

Period sex: Overcoming shame and embracing pleasure

Friends with benefits in lockdown: The intimate partner loophole

Drag after hours: A fashion editorial rebellion by Shelley Horan

Porn shaping desire: The intimacy of virtual touch

Queer spaces in Tasmania: Mourning their loss and celebrating their legacy

Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert’s images explore the spectrum of gender identity

Weight and masculinity

How to hook up with trans people: A beginner’s guide

Alexandra Kacha’s images challenge heteronormativity through a non-binary gaze

On the G.O.D gang of Sydney’s 1990s, queer objects and archives

Isolation in the Reservation: A Navajo Photo Essay

Artwork by Yaron Topp for this article on loneliness and solitude

The loneliness lifestyle: On lockdown and solitude

Archer Magazine panel at the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival

Two legs are seen in a bathtub. There are flowers in the bath water, and you can only see the person's legs and hands.

Self-love: Why I’m breaking up with the concept

Leigh Bowery, Fat Tony & Marc Vaultier at Jungle in 1985

Dave Swindells’ photography captures the diversity of 1980s London nightlife

Cropped image of a person wearing white undergarments with hair on their legs sitting on bed with the sunshine on them.

Femininity and body hair: To hair or not to hair?

Miscarriage and grief: Shouting through the silence

An image of the author in drag, wearing the costume he created with his grandmother's help.

Bodybuilding in drag: Sport and queer visibility

Dance and gender: How dance helped me love my trans body

Colourful paintbrushes on green nature background

Art psychotherapy: Mental health and the erotic

Justin Bieber, a white young man, stands on a red carpet in a close up photo. He is wearing a denim vest with a hood, has short brown styled up hair and is looking smouldering toward the right of the camera.

Queer history, Justin Bieber and drag: Our editors’ picks for 2021

A man's face is partially illuminated as he scrolls on his phone in the dark

TERF wars and their impact on the trans community

Two silhouetted figures sit on separate tree stumps in front of a lake, bathed in fading sunlight. They are in conversation, facing away from the camera and towards the water.

Invisible disabilities and internalised ableism: Navigating social norms

Asexuality and ambiguity: Coming to terms

Non-monogamy and intimacy: A slut for friendship

Two people with short hair hugging, their faces obscured

The most read pieces of 2021: Poppers, The L Word, sex and disability

A man wearing a white shirt covers his face with one hand and extends the other towards the camera, open, to convey 'Stop'

Intimate partner violence in LGBTIQ relationships: A victim survivor’s story

My Chemical Romance: On queer emo friendship

A still from the film '500 Days of Summer'

Friendzone endzone: Manic pixie dykes under the male gaze

Archer Asks: SJ Norman, author of Permafrost

A femme person with blonde long hair is seen resting their arm up against a pink wall. In white text above their long blonde hair, it says 'Archer', indicating that this is a cover photo for the upcoming Archer issue.

Archer Magazine issue #16 – the DISABILITIES issue

Age gaps in queer couples: Dismantling societal rules

A solitary young man in a t-shirt and shorts stands in a meadow filled with yellow and white flowers.

Queer childhood, exploration and innocence

The face of person with blonde hair is seen in a colourful field of flowers. Their eyes are closed and the flowers are pink, orange and red and take up a majority of the frame.

Celebrate the launch of Archer Magazine – The DISABILITIES issue

A grungy wooden door with a sign that reads "INTERVIEW ROOM" and another beneath it that reads "ENTER".

Gay sex in the 60s, stigma and surviving assault

Surrealist nude portraits: Images by Joanne Leah

Role models for trans girls: Representation matters

Pomosexuality: Finding a term that fits

A group of people have their arms around each other. The photo is shot from the back, and they appear to be at an amusement park.

Intersex activism: Fighting for our rights

Trans childhood: AJ Clementine on toys and gender identity

Female motorcycle clubs in Australia: ‘Sheilas’ photo series

A drag king is on stage at a colourful looking club. They have small red undies on, an open shirt and they are dancing and gesturing to the crowd.

Wog Boys: The patron saints of bisexuality who inspired my drag

A dark red room that looks like a club. There are tiled walls and the silhouettes of numerous people are seen in the frame.

Exclusionary spaces: On ‘male-only’ venues

Woman holding the Bisexual Rainbow Flag with the blue sky in the background

Bisexual Visibility Day: My Favourite Archer Bi+ Pieces

A figure stands alone at the end of a long jetty on a foggy, overcast day. They are looking out over the water which is grey blue and blends into the sky.

Conversion therapy: Leading and leaving an ex-gay ministry

A black and white image of Tilly Lawless, a white person with long hair and a hat. She is lying on a black horse topless.

Archer Asks: Tilly Lawless on sex work, friendship and her new book ‘Nothing But My Body’

A body unbound: Troubling the gender binary

Three people are working in a colourful garden. There are flowers and plants of pink, green and yellow.

Plants, queerness and mental health: The joy of growth

A person with short hair is close to the camera smiling. They have glasses and pink lipstick and are wearing an orange shirt with blue pinafore over the top. They are in a bright room with people in the background.

Archer Asks: Tarzan JungleQueen

A silhouette stands before a night sky illuminated by stars

Uncovering my queerness: Only my dreaming self knew

Three friends with painted nails sitting on a couch

Asexuality: Bringing the ‘A’ back into LGBTQIA+

Silhouettes kissing in the dark

The reality of sex and disability: Defying ableist assumptions

Group of people dancing in a club with magenta and deep blue lighting

Celebrating my Korean-Australian identity at a drag bar in Seoul

A photo of children all walking away from the camera wearing colourful backpacks. There is a large group of children, with four that are closest to the camera.

Gendered clothing: Why are kids’ clothes still pink and blue?

Gender socialisation: Rethinking our inherited structures

A microphone on a stand against a blurry, deep blue background

Learning from a year without comedy and sex

A close up of author Billy-Ray Belcourt wearing a grey beanie

Archer Asks: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Adopting a Westernised name: “But what’s your real name?”

Hedon House: Sydney’s lush queer sex and play space

Hands unclasping a bra strap

Sex workers change the script: Calling ourselves ‘workers’

An abstract sketch-style artwork that is pastel coloured and contains the outline of a person with short hair's head and neck. Coming off the person's face are multiple different faces that look like masks - they show different expressions and are pastel mutlicoloured.

Learning that you’re autistic as an adult: Big feelings

Two hands reach out from either side of image, touching fingertips in its centre.

How allies can support LGBTIQA+ people

Porn as sex education

A couple holding hands

Transphobia and the domestic and family violence field

Illuminated electric currents cross the divide between two machines in a dark space.

Navigating new connections: Online dating after relationship trauma

Person with curly hair and red lipstick

My hair isn’t straight, and neither am I

Person holding a mobile phone

The need for reforming sex education: My formative years

Aromantic awareness and the trouble with amatonormativity

A group of people stand together, surrounded by trees. They are all silhouetted, looking out towards a clearing that is bathed in bright sunlight.

Demisexuality and the need for increased visibility

Rainbow coloured walkway

Queer young adult literature: Reading as reclamation

Two people with short hair hugging, their faces obscured

Queer friendship after a breakup

Brown rope in the shape of an 'X'

Consent violations and kink: No means no

Photo of a statue of a face broken in two

First queer relationships: Call me by his name

Making music and meaning: Between the notes

Two people in bed together

Bad bisexual: Stereotypes, inexperience and trying to fit in

A small campfire at dusk, captured through the open entrance of a fabric tent.

Camping without the kids: Travelling solo as a queer mum

Image of Ella Baxter standing in front of greenery

Archer Asks: Ella Baxter, author of New Animal

Joshua Badge stands in front of a backdrop of green foliage. They are holding their phone in both hands and looking at the camera.

At home and incredibly online

Remembrance of poppers past

Heteronormativity and popular history

An image of a part of the cover of the book "The Pronoun Lowdown: Demystifying and celebrating gender diversity" by Nevo Zisin.

Archer Asks: Nevo Zisin, author of The Pronoun Lowdown

Scrabble letters spelling out 'practice makes perfect'

Trans people and language: Why words make a world of difference

Masculinity, trans identity, and the colour pink

Couple cooking together in a kitchen

Demi-love in the time of coronavirus

A pile of scattered tarot cards

Studying the self with astrology: A personal history

Couple in suits running through a park

LGBT+ normativity: Trying to understand everyone’s realities

The shame of sexual inexperience

Brown envelope against cream background

Gender-affirming surgery ‘standards’: The two letters

2020 Archer Magazine covers

What you read to get through 2020: Our editors’ picks

A person with hands over their eyes, bathed in pink and blue light

Hetsplaining male bisexuality

Black makeup palette, rainbow makeup

The makeup of masculinity: Deviating from society’s rules

Fingers touching a flower

Developing a healthy sexuality: Kissing purity culture goodbye

Person lying on the ground with their eyes closed and wearing colourful paint on their face

Adult crushes: Love crusades in a pandemic

Person wearing a jacket and backpack sitting in an empty cinema

Popular culture, masculinity and breaking the status quo

Person sitting near waterfront

After kink: The precipice of pleasure and pain

Multiple hands, palms facing up and covered in bright red paint to varying degrees, are placed together to form a heart.

Relationship anarchy

Person in brown boots standing on greenery

Seeking queer utopias in virtual islands and valleys

Two young people are walking with their backs to the camera. One is wearing a white vest with rainbow suspenders. The other wears a transgender pride flag, featuring a genderfluid symbol, like a cape.

Masculinity and gender expression

A black and gold Chanel perfume bottle next to an open book (Susan Hill's 'The Woman in Black')

Breaking beauty norms: The power of books

Red and white sign

Gender-affirming surgery and trans wellbeing

Mirror on wall with a plant in front of it

Polyamory and the mirror on the wall

Two people in drag smiling to camera

Doing drag with my best friend

Prefect badge on a school uniform

Gender diversity at school: The school dress vs. my gender identity

White and green pills on a bright pink background

Better access to the contraceptive pill

Close up of persons upturned face with eyes closed in apparent pleasure, surrounded by ferns

Masturbation, stigma, and gender

Bi Visibility Day: We want bisexual existence, not just visibility

Person wearing a bisexual pride flag (pink, purple and blue)

Bi+ visibility in Western Australia: Forming community

Two people sitting side by side, one drinking

Queering girls’ friendships: Beyond the euphemisms

Hair and femininity: Image cropped

Two people looking at the sky, one with an arm on the other's shoulder

Fluidity of sexuality

A close-up of an eye.

Sugaring and mental health

Close up of person's face who is wearing a face mask

Disability, queerness and COVID-19: Living proud in a quiet world

Drawing of two bodies overlaid with lemons and limes

Intimate relationships: Signs of respect

Archer Asks: Katy O’Brian, actor and martial artist

Person stands in a dancing pose (in pointe pose)

Transgender inclusion in dance: Paving the way in Irish dancing

Body hair and nakedness in lockdown

A mobile phone on a bed, showing a picture of a face

OnlyFans, a pandemic and the politics of porn

Gold trophy

LGBT+ corporates: Unsafe workplaces are winning awards

Table laden with plates of food, shown from above

Asexuality and identity: Not hungry at a feast

Musicians in lockdown: Cash Savage interviews Jehnny Beth

Take our reader survey and WIN!

Hands holding out a string of round fairy lights in a dim space

Faith, shame and coming out: When sexuality is concealed in fear

Person stares out of small gap at daylight

Intimate partner violence: Living with constant harassment

Three smiling faces

Trans and gender-diverse photoshoot

Person wearing transgender pride eyeshadow

Transitioning in lockdown

A person in a lecture hall to represent teaching and school as an LGBT person.

Teaching while LGBT: A whole-school rainbow

Archer Asks: Stone Motherless Cold

SJ Norman.

Archer Asks: SJ Norman

Queer family and belonging: Saltwater

Bright blue and purple gradient

Pronoun trouble: Navigating gendered language

Trans in rural Queensland: Back to where I’m from

Archer Asks: Diimpa

Queer and Aboriginal in a regional setting: Identity and place

Gender performance and drag: Meet Elijah

Legs/feet in mesh stockings

Domination during isolation: The power in submission

A neon sign that says "DANCE AGAIN".

LGBT communities and eating disorders: The Mardi Gras diet

Three young adults sit in the back of a pick-up truck

Against gay conversion therapy: Loving the ‘sinner’

Person holding blue toy

Ethical porn: The socially conscious pervert

Violence and queer solidarity: Before it touches you

Spectacles on the ground in front of a swimming pool

Intimacy and being alone in Ronnie Scott’s ‘The Adversary’

Rainbow flag blowing in the wind

Sexual assault and the dismissal of queer identity

Two firefighters holding hands

Bushfires and community: All in it together

Image of Jean Tong dressed in black and sitting on sand and Lou Wall wearing a red and white striped jacket and red shorts in front of a blue backdrop

Archer Asks: Finally, a podcast about queer apocalypse stories

Sex work and theft: Real and imagined

Three pupas - cocoons and butterfly wings

Shame and queer origin stories: ‘I’m not wrongly made’

Jo March

Queering history: Memory, museums and ‘Little Women’

Person wearing a dress sitting in front of a fire

From ‘feminine’ to fire: Burning dresses

Non-binary sign in neon lights

Non-binary recognition: From haircuts to ghosts in the machine

A group of Asian models sit at the bottom of a flight of steps, leaning their heads to the left

Queer Asian creatives: Dragons and glitter

A loudspeaker and a cross over colourful swirls

Street harassment: It’s not a compliment

Person wearing a hijab leaning on a metal chain-link fence

Queer and religious freedoms can co-exist

A face in the centre of a large spiral made of newspaper

Meryl McMaster Image Essay: Threads of Self

Tilly Lawless smiling with long hair covering her bare chest

Coronavirus and sex work

Red bandanna on table

Queer and femme

Person standing on broken glass

LGBT domestic violence: Inside the black triangle

Two hands in the air. Words have been handwritten on the hands that say "Our lives are in your hands".

Pinkwashing and the climate crisis: Time to change the Mardi Gras

Dartboard with several darts

Sexual empowerment: Rewriting the narrative

Colourful illustration of sex toys

Sex toys, pleasure and overcoming dysphoria: Toys are us

Two pigeons in front of the Eiffel Tower

Queer literature and masculinity: On reading Jean Genet

A person stands near mountains in Wales

Rural and queer: Coming out in the countryside

Dungeons & Dragons & sex: Using role play to ask for what I want

Two people smiling and covering each other's eyes

My OCD makes me believe that coming out was a lie

Gentrification and queer nightlife

Person wearing glasses and a mustard yellow top smiles in front of a background of flowers and greenery

Disability and queer identity in pop culture: On being ‘special’

Hand holding an open book

Trans masc writers: Looking for stories like mine

Flowers by the sea.

Navigating thought and space as a disabled queer: Where do the quiet queers go?

Alyssa stands in front of a window, lace curtains drawn, her back to the camera, but her face toward it. Her hands are outstretched. Sheer fabric is draped over her, her body visible underneath it.

Lingerie and kink: Alyssa Kitt on dress ups, stripping, burlesque and kink clubs

A person in a yellow apron holds a bowl of plums.

Female friendships and sexuality: Common plums

Brooklyn Bridge at night with city lights showing

Navigating the World as a Trans Man: It’s All About Aly (Part 4)

chalk is lined up in rainbow colours

Out at work: Should I be the gay teacher?

A figure dances on stage, lit by purple light

Famili: The electronic music project from Pasifika and First Nations communities

a close up of Uncle Jack Charles' face.

Archer Asks: Uncle Jack Charles

Navigating the World as a Trans Man: It’s All About Aly (Part 3)

Breastfeeding, asexuality and trauma: Our editors’ picks for 2019

Long-haired person wearing a red and black jacket using MacBook Pro

Patriarchy and gender in the Australian imaginary

a person stands in the silhouette of sunset

Abortion and ambivalence: The parthood model and sadness (but not guilt)

Figures inside a theatre

Creating art in a post #MeToo climate

a person stands side on with their pants undone, holding the waistband of their jeans

Pure OCD and the Groinal Syndrome: Body beyond control

Intersex visibility: Being looked at versus being seen

Red stain in water

Trans-masc and menstruation: Blood will tell

Photo shows the inside of a venue with rainbow flags displayed outside the windows

Queer nightlife: The urge to congregate

Three people sit next to each other, one has their hand on another's knee

Monogamish and the evolving nature of relationships: Rethinking monogamy

Image of an adult holding a child

Queer birth stories: Diversity in families

A person standing in a dimly lit hallway

My Catholic guilt: The regrets of a former youth leader

two hands clasped together in red and blue light

Kink tales: When my best friend became my Sub

Person with long curly hair reading the newspaper

#MeToo in India: Why “Western” movements struggle

Phone on bed

Sex in New York City: It’s All About Aly (Part 2)

Raquel Willis faces the camera, standing in front of a plant.

Archer Asks: Raquel Willis, executive editor of Out Magazine

Person standing in front of a white wall with rainbow stripes running horizontally across them and the wall

Public intimacy: Reclaiming my identity as a bisexual woman

'Gender Euphoria' 2019: The full ensemble (Photo: Alexis Desaulniers Lea)

Gender Euphoria: Two trans artists chat about gender, performance and celebration

Corporate rainbow-washing: The truth behind awards and accolades

a young adult stands with their back to the camera wearing a backpack, running a hand through their hair.

Parenting and sexuality: The time my son found my FetLife profile

Person with long hair wearing a blazer places a leaflet on the fridge. The leaflet says "respect existence (in rainbow font) or expect resistance."

Self-censorship at work: The queer ‘hush’ factor

Portrait of a young person standing against a wooden fence wearing rainbow, blue and pink for Pride.

Bisexual visibility: Why we need to ‘be the change’

a person with foil over their face holds their hands to the side of their head. The background is yellow and blue.

OCD and sex: When ‘pure O’ isn’t so pure

Person posing with their mouth open and fingers over their mouth

Vaginismus and break-ups: Owning my sexuality

a blow up unicorn toy sits in a pool

Threesomes: Loving being a unicorn

Colourful flowers held in hands

Fa’afafine: All Hail the Queen (Samoan Sashay)

A tattoo of a face with some leaves on top and some geometric lines through the face. The eyes are closed. The image is black and white.

Queer-friendly tattoo studios: Disrupting the straight masculinity of the tattoo industry

Office buildings with dark sky in background

Job-hunting as a non-binary trans person: Help wanted

a person stands at the top of a staircase. The person is visible from the waist down.

LGBTI Indigenous youth homelessness: The need for trauma-informed care

Person holding gold-coloured rotary telephone

Being a phone sex operator: Fantasy and reality

Mama Alto kneels on stage, her head down and hands facing outward

An open letter to the trans and gender diverse community from Mama Alto

Person leaning on the weights at a gym

Masculinity and weightlifting: Gender in the gym

a group of 9 people of different races and sizes are grouped in front of a sign that reads 'Los Angeles'

‘Together’ an image essay by Luke Austin

Two people sit on a rock wall. They are only shown waist down.

Memoir: It’s All About Aly (Part 1)

Two people having coffee and hugging, shown from above

Being bisexual and mixed: Preserving culture through a queer lens

Navigating PTSD and the sexual self

A person stands on some rocks in silhouette

Homelessness services must strive to understand and support nuanced identities

Ethical porn and submission

a white station wagon sits in a field

Family, cars and finding autonomy: Unpacking complexity in homelessness

Dead canaries: An experience of gaslighting

a hand is outstretched, palm upwards, in front of a building

Social work, accountability and hope: How does our youth homelessness system serve trans folks?

Two vagina dolls resting on the sand at the beach

Aroma therapy: The smell of my vagina helped me overcome shame & love sex

The great interracial divide: Long distance relationships, language and truths

Deadnaming and transgender people: The pain of a name

an empty hallway of a school

School’s out: Catholic schools and the Sex Discrimination Act

A red ice block / popsicle melting in the heat

Shifting beyond the binary: Periods, gender and identity

Girlfriends, gal pals or partners? Language and queer visibility

Person with arms over head in bondage rope

The ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feminist: Coming to terms with my kinks

Person walking beside street art

Being a stealth trans man when transphobia is on the rise

Being queer and body positive

Another way to transition: Holistic pathways to gender affirmation

Two hands touching

Gender affirming sex: Paying for sex as a non-binary person

a wooden mannequin poses

Sex and sterilisation for women with disabilities

Unconventional relationships: Doesn’t every family have a Leon?

Microphone in front of a light

Laughing matters: Bringing queerness into comedy festivals

Sam Stoich sits in a comfy couch, facing the camera, wearing only a maroon jumper.

Sam Stoich Image Essay: Shot in the Dark

a white powder lines the crevice of a record in a record player

LBQ women and drugs: Passing the plate around

Street art depicting a person holding a finger to their lips and words in French

Liberté Egalité Feminité: Finding a welcoming home in street art

Marriage ‘equality’: Planning my wedding as a non-binary queer

The gender trouble with hair loss

Dashaun Wesley wears a fluoro top as he vogues on the runway at Sissy Ball.

Archer Asks: Dashaun Wesley, King of Vogue

A comic about a rundown looking bar where all the cocktails have an addiction theme

The queer renaissance of comics

Person lying down covering their eyes

When shame comes from the inner-sanctum: Biphobia within the queer community

Navigating intimacy and post-coital dysphoria

Pink lighting at a nightclub with the words 'DANCING QUEEN' hanging on the wall

Accessibility at queer events: It’s hard to have pride when you can’t access it

A collage by artist Saba Taj

Queer Muslim Futurism

Happy Valentine’s Day, me: How being single became central to my queerness

An image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the north, with housing and trees in the foreground.

LGBTIQ elders – An excerpt from “Peering Through: Sharing Decades of Queer Experiences”

Person holding a copy of the Bible

I’m the gay teacher you want the right to fire

How to talk about sex with your parents

Top 5 picks at Mardi Gras Film Festival 2019

Trauma and homophobia: Becoming sexual in my late forties

No justice for sexual assault victims: Sex workers ‘less than citizens’

Archer Asks: DANCING QWEENS performer James Welsby

Partially closed laptop with colourful light showing

Losing a digital home: Tumblr’s ban and marginalised sexual identities

the reflection in the glass of a butch person is in focus, while the person relfected is blurred in the foreground

Butch lineage: The difficulties of chronicling a subculture

a white person with fluoro yellow hair and a full face of makeup yells at the camera, their arms covering their nude torso

Archer Asks: Velma Celli, creator and star of A Brief History of Drag

two photos side by side, on the left a person with long hair in a messy bun with their eyes closed, on the right a person with short hair covering their face with their hoodie.

Archer Asks: video director Triana Hernandez and electronic producer Geryon discuss their collaboration, Nerves

The most read stories of 2018: Sex, relationships, and mental health

Six animated children playing a game involving a bottle

Bi Mouth: Queer Representation in Netflix’s Big Mouth

Finding family in science fiction fandoms

Two spiral staircases - one pink and one blue.

Personal, professional and deeply political: On being femme and non-binary

A person with long hair wearing a white t-shirt sits in bed leaning on a pillow

Prevention or pleasure: Sex after vaginismus

A camel coloured couch with two matching pillows sits in front of a beige wall with a portrait of flowers on it. A tabled with a lamp is on the left.

The domestic violence trap: Trauma bonding

An ace of hearts playing card in colour on top of a pile of cards

Ace up my sleeve: Coming out as asexual

Trans erasure, trans visibility: History, archives, and art

A white neon sign reads "you are here" all in upper case against a dark background.

Being queer on Tumblr: Privacy and anonymity in the age of social media

Transgender and gender diverse representation on the big screen

A white marble Virgin Mary statue is pictured praying.

The asexual spectrum: Sex education, stigma, and silence

A light-skinned hand holding a bunch of colourful pencils pushes through the top of a white box, with a white background. There is a script tattoo on the wrist.

Coming out when the labels don’t fit

Two people stand on a beach at sunset with their legs intertwined. The image only shows them from their legs down, and they are wearing jeans and casual shoes.

Queer monogamy and sexual liberation

The town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, is in the foreground, with a mountainous landscape in the background. The town is dotted with colourful buildings.

Out from the cold: The growth of gay Greenland

Peter Waples-Crowe facing the camera wearing a black tshirt with a rainbow Indigenous artwork on the chest and the words 'make your mark'

Indigenous queer elders: Stepping up for mob

Gender hierarchies: Re-evaluating ‘good men’ and women as always ‘player two’

Intersex variations: Western medicine and the Hippocratic Oath

The Climbing QTs: identity on the rock climbing wall

Archer Asks: Curly Fries of The Leftover Collective

Tickled Pink: Thailand Tourism Comes Out

Archer Asks: Queer Lady Magician Creatrix Tiara

Bisexuality and coming out over and over again

Unmasking heteronormativity

relationship hierarchies

Relationship hierarchies: Defending queer friendships, community and being single

Queering the map: an archive of queer space

trans women in sports

Trans women in sports: End the discrimination now

gay rape fantasies

Gay rape fantasies: What do our kinks say about us?

Identity, mental health and postcolonial trauma

fat femmes

Fat femmes to the front: Pushing back on false representation

Coming out twice, and being a lesbian in the current day

Sex positivity and the question of sexual experience

In detention: Gay on Nauru

Polyamory: The love of many

Archer Asks: Performance artist Mish Grigor

victim blaming women

Victim blaming culture: Eurydice Dixon and the accountability of men

Zahra Stardust lies naked on a couch

Lessons in sex: Porn performers and sex education

greek orthodoxy cross

Coming out in my Greek Orthodox family: Rejecting the sexless heterosexual

Bisexual women and mental health: You must be this queer to enter

Shame, gender and ageing ‘gracefully’: Musings from a 66 yr old androgynous bodybuilder

Mama Alto

Archer Asks: Jazz singer and activist, Mama Alto

A woman in the bear community

skin policing is a practice in many cultures

Skin contact: Respectability, desire and the repression of sexuality

Why not Love Simone? Lesbian representation in mainstream film

André Aciman the author of Call me by your Name

Archer Asks: André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name

Born out of fire – The Hellfire Club rises again

age play

Age play stigma: Defending kinky relationships with fiction

Aboriginal families: Beyond flesh and blood

twink holds a pool noodle

Twink masculinity: The destabilising nature of stereotypes

Sexuality workshops and play spaces lubricated my gender fluidity

Anorexia and sexuality: pleasure and control

For partners of transgender people who come out

Trans masculine India: Gender role play, prejudice and the hijra community

A love letter to stripping

chivalry

Chivalry: How modern men inherit medieval misogyny

Archer Asks: Nic Holas, co-founder of The Institute of Many

friendships fading

Ghosts of friendships past: On divesting from privilege

Queers and #metoo: discussing sexual assault in queer spaces

drarry fanfiction

Fanfiction: Coding homosexuality as a teenager

Transgender children: doing it for the kids

Not like you

Not like you: On gay assimilation and fighting for difference

Archer Asks: Fashion Designer Clarence Chai

A punk looks out over the barricade of Sydney Mardi Gras

Pride parade disruptions: Keeping queerness ethical

Sugar babies: The delicate power balance

The musician poses with glasses

Archer Asks: Musician and performer, William Hannagan-Mckinna

Raising a rainbow family: slowly becoming visible

Archer Asks: Allan Clarke and the First Nations history of Mardi Gras

asexuality is a spectrum

Asexuality and the politics of memory, abuse and consent

“Writing had been my vice all along”: Louis’ Story

Drag king spaces in Sydney: Remember the King

cruising for sex

Cruising: Public sex and the queer resistance to gay assimilation

Archer Asks: Get Hairy February organiser, Alex Andrews

hair flicks to the side

Hair and identity: Developing a femme aesthetic of queer diaspora

Mardi Gras Film Festival 2018: Top 5 films for diversity

A red neon sign reads ENTER. The image is the title image for the Archer article Opening up a relationship: Compersion, insecurity and ethical non-monogamy.

Opening up a relationship: Compersion, insecurity and ethical non-monogamy

boi wonder gender queer artwork

Boi wonder: Hinduism, transness and masculine anger

A transgender man in the barbershop: Passing, masculinity, and aftershave

mixed race woman pulls shirt down in front of purple wall

Mixed race and bi: Carving the self into liminal space

Tilly Lawless: Making space as a sex worker

Queer linguistics and shared understanding, or why I usually say I’m bisexual

A male figure presses their hands onto the wall of the shower

PrEP revolution: Shame, class and bareback sex

Bullying and coming out: Jay’s story

a shopping trolley on wet asphalt

Misgendering cisgender: androgyny and the defaulting of masculinity

In exile: finding home as a queer woman from a refugee background

metrosexuality and the mirror gazing man

Metrosexuality: Effeminacy, aesthetics and toxic masculinity

Queerness in Venezuela: politics, colonialism and sexuality

yes

Yes and no: Priorities of queer resistance and the gay agenda

Rape jokes and dealing with trauma

protest

Protest, marriage equality and the future of activism

Older voices and the marriage equality debate

asexual

Asexual and aromantic: Redefining the normalcy of sex and desire

Marriage equality debate: Self-care and love at a tender time

Latinx language: Between a gender and grammatical binary

Trans spaces: Left out

femme strap on

Femme domination and the pleasures of wearing a strap on

Deconstructing binaries: Forever on the fence

Losing your father, finding yourself: David H’s story

autism

Sex on the spectrum: Neurodivergence, misogyny and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Serena Williams and the Politics of Images

homophobia

Don’t let them erase the faces of homophobia: Tony Abbott and the good victim myth

Candy Bowers stars in 'One The Bear'

Archer Asks: Candy Bowers, Performer, Producer, Activist

bisexual

Pick a side, and other bisexual misunderstandings

Marriage equality and being trans: The legal grey areas in gender and the Marriage Act

The Bachelor: Understanding the attraction of watching the reality show

samantha

Archer Asks: Samantha X, author and sex worker

An affirmation: The enduring power of queer love, with or without marriage

marriage

Queers against gay marriage: What to do in this postal vote?

Queerness, class and understanding your own oppression (without a degree)

Marriage equality: Postal vote campaign fatigue and debating the inevitable

Buddhism, diaspora and the challenge of faith in queer communities

Daddy/son play

Non-binary fantasy and the erotics of Daddy/son play

My disability helped me embrace my queerness: Re-evaluating masculinity through the gift of weakness

the artist Celdran at work

Face to face with my queer hero, Carlos Celdran

Sexual intimacy after sexual assault

scars are hot

The socio-sexual landscape of scars

Androgynous people can be of any gender

Teaching while androgynous: Broaching gender with kids vs. adults

Call out culture’s generation gap: Tumblr, queer theory, and lateral violence

Drag and gender: Performing as a non-binary human

The whiteness of ‘coming out’: culture and identity in the disclosure narrative

Celebrating queer friendships: Ditch the internet strangers and date your mates

The medicalisation of gender fluidity: Forget me not

Archer Asks: Krissy Kneen, author of erotic fiction

music industry

Sex, drugs and yeah, we get it: Music journalism in the age of identity politics

Non-hierarchical polyamory: Stepping off the relationship escalator

Outside, looking in: sex at 65

Archer Magazine 8 - the SPACES issue feat. Tilly Lawless

The ‘SPACES’ issue – Archer Magazine #8 out in June!

Vigil in Newtown shame Afghan

Gay shame: Orlando and the Muslim community’s response to tragedy

bodywork touch

Bodywork: The erotic art of wellbeing, embodiment and somatic sexology

Learning to be selfish: The quest for a fulfilling sex life as a 43 year old Uruguayan woman

discrimination in kink tradie

Work and play: Discrimination in tradie and kink communities

Extracting queerness from a narrative of suffering

Versatile tricks: transitioning as a sex worker

love painful vaginismus intimacy

Painful love: Sex, disability and vaginismus

an astrology clock depicts signs

Astrology and the importance of queer spirituality

woman enjoying oral sex

Oral sex and the pleasures of eating out

Image by: Eleazar Fuentes

Sex and fluids: Navigating bodily secretions

Twink and bear are two gay labels

Twink, bear, sub, Dom: How gay classification reinforces heteronormativity

Aesthetic attraction and being on the asexual spectrum

ableism is a problem in many queer communities

Ableism in queer communities

On queer aesthetics and not feeling ‘queer enough’

Editor Amy Middleton on a stage with issue #5 contributors Rochelle Siemienowicz, Simona Castricum and Dion Kagan.

How to make a magazine: Finding diverse writers

A mentally ill mexican person lies on a bed

Queer, brown and mentally ill

Melbourne skyline at night

“The only Asian deaf gay guy in Melbourne”: Alvin’s story

Examining queer young adult fiction: The way forward

the writer in front of transphobia kills banner

TERFs uprising: Trans exclusionary radical feminists gatekeeping womanhood

A woman poses with her pole

Pole dancing: Ageism, skilfulness and finding sexiness in sport

Navigating the nasty and confusing territory of teenage femme-femme relationships

Examining queer young adult fiction: Systemic discrimination in the publishing world

BoJack Horseman and positive representations of asexuality

Mardi Gras and pride: the vulnerability of dismantling shame

Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2017: Our must-see picks

Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder

Archer Asks: Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra, performance artists and community organisers

Queer young adult fiction: examining the underrepresentation of queer voices

A slightly chubby model poses in dim natural light

Gay failure: Body image, conditioned inadequacy and queering photography

Porn: On regulation, censorship, and education in the wake of Prop 60

Examining Australian queer young adult fiction: there’s not enough queer in AusQueerYA

Film still from Irrawaddy Mon Amour.

Mardi Gras Film Festival 2017: Top 5 films for diversity

poster says 'your identity is valid'

“Learning to respect diversity is a hard job”: Archer editor at Pride 2017

amy winehouse

Bi in the public eye: The erasure of bisexual women from the celebrity biopic

On Tasmanian queerness, and (not) going to the mainland

Archer Asks: Rebecca Shaw, feminist comedian

Pregnant woman. (Photo: Jackie Dives)

Motherhood and sex: Navigating post-birth desire

Queer media history: An excerpt from ‘Pink Ink: The Golden Era for Gay and Lesbian Magazines’

Gay on a field

Embracing the femininity of my gayness

The Axis of Awesome. (Photo: Patrick Boland)

Transgender stories: Jordan Raskopoulos under the spotlight

Cover image: Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars and Theology Before Stonewall

An ode to ‘Baby, You Are My Religion’ by Marie Cartier

Photo: Drasko Bogdanovic

Pinkwashing, polyamory and butt politics: The most-read stories of 2016

Archer Magazine issue #7

How to make a magazine: How to cope with print deadlines

Intimacy and Anxiety: Natural Enemies

Palestinian colours blowing in the wind

“Will I ever not be Haram?”: Masculinity, queerness and visibility in Palestinian culture

Alok Vaid-Menon. (Photo: Georgia Smedley)

Q&A with Alok Vaid-Menon of Darkmatter

Archer Asks: Alex Lahey, Aussie musician

Man reads book in bed

Between the covers: Sex and taboo in queer literature

there is danger in the gaze

Trans erasure: Misgendering, murder and remembrance beyond TDOR

Legs showing in red miniskirt

Straddling the gender binary: Clothes don’t maketh the man

Archer Magazine 7 cover

The ‘THEY/THEIRS’ issue – Archer Magazine #7 out in December!

Lesbian femininity: Understanding the legitimacy and erasure of queer femmes

Intersex rights flag

Intersex awareness day: Thinking outside the box

Model Mama Alto gets a latex adjustment by stylist Diane Vu.

Trans and non-binary fashion: Archer photo shoot sneak-peek

Jenny’s Wedding: a film review

A group of queer and trans people of colour congregate

Colour Tongues performance night highlights diverse artistry

Rainbow over church. Photo: Gregg Ness

Homosexuality and the church: An excerpt from ‘A Life of Unlearning’

Safer sexting: Abstinence isn’t the only way

Non-penetrative sex: Shame, heteronormativity and climaxing without the destination

Image by GlitterandFrills via Flickr

Transgender children in the media: telling responsible stories

Conceptual Polyamory: the social and political weight of keeping options open

A ride at an amusement park

Shifting Trans narratives: envisioning a better future for all Transgender people

Culture clash: Exploring cultural and sexual identities from Zimbabwe to Australia

First Girl I Loved - film still.

Top 5 movies at Queer Screen Film Fest 2016

Sexuality and identity: More than labels

An eclectic group of white-passing young people

Assimilation, fetishisation and the problem with white queer activism

An ode to ‘The Beauty Myth’ by Naomi Wolf

Archer Asks: Q&A with JD Samson

Polyamory: The everyday realities of being in love with two people at once

Dale Woodbridge-Brown, Circus Oz acrobat and MC. (Photo: Rob Blackburn)

Archer Asks: Dale Woodbridge-Brown, Indigenous, queer and a Circus Oz acrobat

“There are no homosexuals in Afghanistan”: Perspectives on queerness from my Father

Alison Whittaker. (Photo: James Brickwood)

Queerness and Indigenous cultures: One world, many lives

Feeding my desire: Intimacy and breastfeeding

SlutWalk Melbourne. (Photo: Kate Hannah)

How to be a good slut: top 5 tips for all genders

Cash Savage - Lisa Sorgini

Archer Asks: Cash Savage chats to her wife, Amy Middleton, editor of Archer Magazine

Photo: Jess Desaulniers-Lea

Religion, sex and polyamory: A cross to bear

Birthday cake. (Photo by Paul Downey)

Coming out: Tips for parents and families of gay kids

Photo: Drasko Bogdanovic

Butt politics: The complexities of anal sex

Sex sells toys: Gendered marketing in the world of adult toys

Rekindling old flames: Reflections on Tinder, dating, and relationships

A women's silhouette holds a baby

Choosing to live: Family, sacrifice and domestic violence in a lesbian relationship

On the steps of the Victorian Parliament

Inter-generational trauma: Daniel Andrews, shame and the othering of gay bodies

Archer Magazine 6 - the she/hers issue

‘The SHE/HERS issue’ – Archer Magazine #6 out now

Image Essay: Sydney Party Photo Booth

Beyond the coming out narrative: The transphobia the media doesn’t represent

Model poses with poppers

Ode to amyl

Photo: Leila Koren

Image Essay: ‘For the Love of Hair’ by Leila Koren

The Texan highway sprawls across the screen

Judaism, queerness and pushing past the binary

Image Essay: ‘Shared House’ by Charlie Brophy

Highly stylised makeup typically accompanies drag

I’ve done drag a few times…

Taking on gender inequality in pop culture

A woman’s work: Sex as a fat lady

Archer Asks: Maeve Marsden, writer and member of Lady Sings It Better

Mexico Pride Parade

Mexico’s cultural history of LGBT reform

Archer Asks: Esther Godoy, editor of Butch is not a dirty word

Thousands came out in defence of the Safe Schools program.

Trans visibility, Safe Schools and living vulnerable: fighting back against the demonising of Transgender people

Archer’s MQFF picks: Traversing gender, sexuality and disability on the big screen

Instant gratification: Addiction and anxiety in online dating

Gay street

Gentrification grind: Travels in would-be queer space

Asexuality: Coming out as ace

Blue brooch reads 'It's a BOY'

Read between the lines in the language of (un)certainty

Queerness and science: Moving beyond the binary

The massage industry is highly gendered

Happy endings, massage and exploitation: Stuck between a towel and a hard place

“When are you going to stop writing about [Insert issue]?” An author’s guide to writing about your own oppression, part two

HIDDEN Photography Project

HIDDEN Photography Project: Bringing LGBTIQ domestic and family violence out of the closet

“When are you going to stop writing about [insert issue]?” – an author’s guide to writing about your own oppression

Science and homosexuality: Why your genes are just so gay

Bi and mighty: Fighting stigma and prejudice around bisexuality

Come as you are: When sexuality isn’t used to define queer TV characters

Boxer in fitness room alone

Boxing for bravery: Risk, transitioning and a warrior’s spirit

Under the [book] covers: Doing lesbian fiction right

Queer and trans activists having buckets of water thrown at them from the crowd

The pinkwashing of Melbourne ‘Pride’

Cate McGregor, David Morrison, Piers Akerman: The long road to trans equality

Bisexual Community

Policing visibility: Binaries, bisexuality and intra-LGBT exclusivity

Changing the politics of queer cinema

Loving myself: How masturbation made me realise I was queer

broken heel superhero

Confronting queer privilege in Broken Hill

Midsumma, Image

Midsumma sessions: Challenge your queer thinking

sleater-kinney

Betraying my lesbian self: Coming to terms with never coming out

How to have really good sex: Sydney’s forward-thinking festival

Archer Magazine #5 launch

LISTEN: In Conversation with Archer feat. Simona Castricum, Dion Kagan + Rochelle Siemienowicz

Nic Holas. Image by Samuel Hodge

Sex, gender, identity: Top 10 articles in 2015

Ending HIV

Gender diversity represented in sexual health campaign

Magda Szubanksi, Konrad Winkler

Archer Asks: Magda Szubanski on sexuality, family and her memoir ‘Reckoning’

Image by Courtney Carmody

Choice and agency: Non-monogamy and STIs

Kat Muscat Fellowship announced to support young writers

Sex, pleasure, and empowerment: Why ‘thou shalt orgasm’ is a flawed commandment

Archer Asks: Sam Orchard, creator of webcomic ‘Rooster Tails’

Letting go, a little: Living with vaginismus

Archer Asks: Sex Nerd, Sandra Daugherty

Hairy legs don’t make you more queer: Body positivity, and why it’s okay to be grossed out sometimes

Archer Asks: Natasha Jynel, facilitator of ‘Our Voices, Changing Culture’

The harm of gender stereotypes: Nail polish and the fragility of masculinity

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Sex over 70: Better with age

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BDSM: inside the kinky lifestyle

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Between Love and Tinder: Investigating the Erotic Friendship

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Parenting and having a queer ‘tribe’

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Conversations: flirting, sex and beauty

Coming out straight-ish

Queer in children’s television: the way forward

Holding the Man: 20 years on

Queer in children’s television: Adventure Time

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‘Fair go’ in sport: equal opportunity for transgender and gender diverse people

Conversations: bisexual identity, masculinity and Grindr racism

Queer in children’s television: where are we now?

Managing crystal meth: tina and gay men

Marriage equality: The In Bed Project

Wanking: the past and future of masturbation

Feminist pornography: beyond the male gaze

LGBT: in defence of collaboration

Sex and desire in the writing of Christos Tsiolkas

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LGBTI allies: sometimes the worst thing you can say is ‘me too’

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Deafness and sexuality: out of the darkness

Gender transition: brave new world

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Queer identities and pigeonholing

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The actor’s secret: the joy of playing with gender

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Sex addiction: Insatiable

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How media reports affect trans people, and what should be done

Seeking protection: LGBTI asylum seekers

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Back from the brink: sex and grieving

Shibari: Japanese erotic rope art

A Boys Own Manual To Being A Proper Jew

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Opening the closet on LGBTI people in heavy industries

‘I Luv U But’: Being Arab and queer

SlutWalk: A protest against rape culture

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Sensation and stereotypes: ABC’s Carlotta

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Short film sheds light on LGBTI domestic violence

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Why we need to recognise older people’s sexuality

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A humbling hello from US ambassador John Berry

What the election result means for sexual diversity

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Why gender difference is anyone else’s business

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First PM to support marriage equality

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