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“To write well you need to read, and read widely”: Charlee Brooks aka Grandpa’s Book Club on the internet, queer literature and his undying love for Patti Smith.

The Husband Carrot

One Thing: for sale, one strap on, never used

From raw milk to tradwifery to queerphobia: what are the 'crunchy' lifestyle reels you're seeing all over Instagram?

Dear Queer & A: am I allowed to use the terms ‘transmasc’ and ‘transfemme’?

Labor's social media ban is dangerous for queer youth

America may have just killed their own democracy. Why did young people decide that it wasn’t worth saving?

One Thing: the airport that banned love

The comedy that broke me

Agatha All Along's legacy needs to be more than the MCU's "queer explosion"

Godzilla is trans?

Protests in Australia are dangerous, hostile places. Who is there to protect us?

The bisexual episode of Sex and the City

All the purple flags I justified before realising asexuality was a thing

Chappell Roan and the trap of the so-called "mean lesbian"

Drag Queens are very legitimate recording artists - and we need to start respecting them as such

One Thing: the mystery of the "Night Mother"

The bisexual shark paradox

Good news! Posie Parker didn't get a visa to Australia

One Thing: the bathroom horror zoo

But enough about me

Why the recommendations from the inquest into transgender suicides are welcome, but nowhere near enough

Every song from Once More With Feeling ranked

Weird little guys and very old swords

LGBTQI+ Australians are tired of being ignored. Here’s why counting them in the census is so important

Love and loathing in Albany: following the book banning narrative unfolding in Western Australia

"That magic bucket of waffles is me": my conversation about storytelling and comedy wth Brennan Lee Mulligan

Roxanne Tickle’s win in the federal court is a historic victory for transgender women

The long kiss goodbye: a loving tribute to the short films of Australian queer rights pioneer Stephen Cummins

The debate around religious discrimination reform is built on the fallacy that religion and queerness cannot coexist.

After airing some of the most transphobic TV in Australia, the spotlight's now on Channel 7's horrendous workplace culture

Is JK Rowling's brain actually full of black mould? An investigation

Misinformation, abuse and injustice: breaking down the Olympic boxing firestorm

Let me live forever in silks and boyfriend drama

Blown away by the lack of sexiness

Turning 'Deadpool and Wolverine' into a bromance for laughs completely ignores the queer history of both characters

An archive of our own: the beauty of sapphic fandoms

“We are feeling so done with being used” – talking to the British transgender kids who stormed the NHS England headquarters

British Labour's willingness to throw trans people under the bus shows how mainstream 'gender-critical' views have become in the party

Where are the (happy) queer women in prestige TV?

“I hope I can change perspectives on trans people”: 6 News election analyst Maggie Perry talks the future of politics, being a young trans girl, and her hopes for the future

Gay Sex The Musical The Show The Experience - what the sex scenes in 'All Of Us Strangers' and 'Red, White & Royal Blue' tell us about queer fantasy

Media organisations are failing to protect LGBTQ journalists from harassment and abuse

Doctor Who is a weapon of queer pride in 2024 - but it's never been afraid of social commentary

They keep trying to use queer people as an excuse for Israel's genocide. It’s a nonsense notion.

Remember when Hilary Duff single-handedly solved homophobia? I do

All the heterosexual nonsense we were forced to endure over MAY

it's time to live dangerously and subscribe to nonsense

Humour as both a weapon and a shield: talking to Sam Elkin about his memoir 'Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga'

Muscle Mummies are on the rise!

Is there anything we can learn about dating from Bridgerton, or is that stupid?

I’ve written over a hundred articles about the Eurovision Song Contest – and I am sick to death of its “apolitical” facade

Gender Queer was the last book an Australian council tried to ban. It’s still being appealed in federal court

A Sydney council has banned books with same-sex parents from its libraries. But since when did councils ban books?

When they talk about children's safety, they really mean control

Computers are binary, but humans aren't: why automated gender recognition is a high-tech gender essentialist fantasy

Rebellion and representation: Talking to the filmmakers of the 10th anniversary of TILDE, the Melbourne Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival

Cheating on the dream husband assignment: one dyke's analysis of Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!"

All the heterosexual nonsense we were forced to endure over APRIL

You only need to look at 'Queer As Folk' to understand how much queer representation matters

The anti-trans movement has a Nazi problem

Explainer: Cass, Reviewed

Don't say transphobia: from Nex Benedict to Brianna Ghey, why is the media unable to report effectively on queer hate crimes?

Do you wanna write for nonsense?

Gender is not scary, argues Judith Butler. But right now, it represents the threat of social change

"But he's gay": revisiting the heterosexual blooper that changed queer culture forever

"Oh, parasitic men": talking horror, chasers and Jordan Peterson with filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay

What is the WPATH "leak" and why is conservative media trying to position it as a “groundbreaking medical scandal”?

All the heterosexual nonsense we were forced to endure over MARCH

Trans Day of Visibility offers chance for community to stand in solidarity and support

The X-Men have always been here and queer, get used to it

Before the 1980s, Australian teachers could be banned for being gay. A new report wants to protect them at religious schools too

Why is the government still bending to the will of a few conservative faith leaders when it comes to protecting LGBTQIA+ students in religious schools?

The unbearable bigness and hugeness of Jack Reacher

Bias as a power game: what The Australian got wrong in this article about the Australian Human Rights Commission's transgender rights public consultation

"I don't want anyone leaving this play saying that JK is a bad person. I want them to leave thinking she's a harmful person" - talking JK Rowling with Anna Piper Scott

We studied two decades of queer representation on Australian TV, and found some interesting trends

All the nonsense I was forced to endure through February 2024

Queers own the spectacle: why exactly is Australian media leaning into transphobia?

"A crime of passion": In the wake of Jesse Baird and Luke Davis’s tragic deaths, let's discuss why the language the media used matters

The media exploited Beau Lamarre-Condon’s homosexuality when reporting on the murder of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird

Introducing The LGBTQIA+ Media Watch Project

‘Shipping’, ‘slash fic’ and ‘Gaylors’: fans can find community through ‘queering’ idols – but is it ethical?

If your entire life blows up you might as well watch New Girl

What the ABC got wrong when they deadnamed Brianna Ghey

All the nonsense we were forced to endure over JANUARY 2024

"The opportunity to showcase a lot of freaks"

Dave Chappelle has built a reputation for ‘punching down’ on trans people – and now he’s targeting disabled people

It feels insane for streaming services to be cancelling shows like Our Flag Means Death in this era

The case for Jacob Elordi as the first ever Bond Boy