Oh, my, my, my! There has never been a better time for queer* couples in our nation’s capital looking for romantic date spots. From the whole of Braddon to selective parts of Civic, Fyshwick and greater Canberra, queer* couples everywhere can now comfortably take their pick of almost all of Canberra’s favourite rendezvous hotspots.
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Queer* Dating Made Easy: The Hottest New Dating Spots Where You Can Actually Hold Hands Without Getting Stared At
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The Tales That Really Mattered: A Discussion of Fanfiction, Queer Identity And Lord of the Rings
“I had just sat through three movies where Sam had followed Frodo across Middle Earth on a perilous journey, and it seemed obvious to me that after everything they’d been through they would get married ... How could the story now veer wildly off course and have Samwise marry a girl from the Shire?”
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In Conversation: Genderless
“As a gender-diverse person worried about their future in the workforce, I approached a non-binary employee of the Australian Public Service, Rian Jenkins, in order to gain an understanding of how their experience being out at work has impacted their life ... I hope this interview, as it did for me, eases gender diverse people's worries and makes them a little happier about the prospect of growing up in a cisgender world.”
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Coming Out In A Relationship
“Is it cheating to realise, while dating a man, that you are also interested in women?”
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Cousin Josephina
“She stole it. Cousin Josephina was a thief.”
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Queerbaiting On Paradise Island
“Many viewers found it hard to reconcile what seemed to be two incompatible notions: being on The Bachelor ... and being in a relationship with a woman.”
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It’s Raining Gorman: How Raincoats And Queerness Interact
In celebration of the Canberra-based Facebook group “like if ur a cool queer who owns a Gorman raincoat”, its memes and water protection, we asked several cool queers to review their Gorman raincoats (and one lone Driza-Bone).
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Mardi Gras And Corporations: The Intersection I Didn’t Know I Didn’t Want
"I simply cannot shake the feeling that the event ... has become another target of capitalist exploitation."
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Gendered Memory
“I felt invisible and very in the spotlight all at once. I played that memory game in my head.”
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A Transfeminine Experience With Toxic Masculinity
“At the young age of six, I learnt that boys wanting to wear dresses was not normal.”