Queers

Controversy around sponsorship of the queer festival Midsumma by News Corp gets Benjamin and Simon thinking broadly about what corporate sponsorship means to queer communities. Where and how do we draw the line when it comes to taking money from companies we don't like?

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The US Presidential Election result has Simon and Benjamin thinking about call-out culture, and wondering what's achieved in social media's violent search for the politically perfect.

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The US Presidential Election result has Simon and Benjamin thinking about call-out culture, and wondering what's achieved in social media's violent search for the politically perfect.

The act of coming out is one of the few remaining things queers have in common. Reflecting on their own coming-out experiences following International Coming Out Day, Benjamin and Simon ask what it means to come out in the age of essential identity.

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The act of coming out is one of the few remaining things queers have in common. Reflecting on their own coming-out experiences following International Coming Out Day, Benjamin and Simon ask what it means to come out in the age of essential identity.

Community. We talk about it all the time, but what are we actually talking about when we do? Simon and Benjamin try to break down what we mean (or don't) when we say things like "queer community".

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Community. We talk about it all the time, but what are we actually talking about when we do? Simon and Benjamin try to break down what we mean (or don't) when we say things like "queer community".

Taking a week off from doom and gloom this week—or trying to, at least—Benjamin and Simon talk about one of their favourite things: RuPaul’s Drag Race. This celebration of camp culture begs the question, what’s so great about being queer?

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Taking a week off from doom and gloom this week—or trying to, at least—Benjamin and Simon talk about one of their favourite things: RuPaul’s Drag Race. This celebration of camp culture begs the question, what’s so great about being queer?

Two recent news stories get Simon and Benjamin thinking about the idea of "safe spaces", and wondering whether gay men's claims that those spaces have been invaded are everything they appear to be.

An editors' note from The Daily Beast on the Rio Olympics story: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/11/a-note-from-the-editors.html Shannon Power's

Star Observer article: http://www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/gay-men-need-stop-sexually-assaulting-women-shannon-power/152159

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