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  • allison_janney
    Growing up like a real woman

    I cope with stress by watching comfort television. When shit really gets me down, all I want is to be at home, surrounded by the televised role models of my teenage years. Back then I had my go-to...

    • Posted 2 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Photos of the gays we saw on holiday

    When my boyfriend or I have had a particularly stressful week, come Saturday we treat ourselves to breakfast at the same cafe we’ve been going to since our relationship began. Every time, we order exactly the same...

    • Posted 15 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Straighties in the waiting room

    A few nights ago I was at the pub with some friends when the discussion turned to our GPs. A couple of years back I started going to a mostly-queer clinic here in Melbourne, and it changed...

    • Posted 22 days ago
  • Emilia-Clarke-as-Daenerys-Targaryen
    Don Draper does Daenerys

    Costume dramas turn me on. I can’t help myself. Every year, some new genre show pops up on television and I find my sexual fantasies turning to a different period in history. Downton Abbey resulted in months...

    • Posted 30 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Talkin’ (dirty) ‘bout my generation

    A friend asked me recently whether gay men of my generation are less inclined towards anonymous sex. As a gay man around 15 years older than me, his observation followed a complaint — going to saunas. There...

    • Posted 35 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    The internet is covered in my smut

    I get pretty nervous before job interviews. Unfortunately, productive preparatory tasks, such as figuring out the answers to stupid questions like, ‘what’s your greatest weakness’ (answer: my dislike of most people), are often pushed aside so I...

    • Posted 43 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    Public displays of heterosexuality

    I’ve begun to find large groups of heterosexual men in public places disgusting. It’s something about the way they dominate a space, how they fill it up with often homoerotic displays of extreme masculinity that feels to...

    • Posted 50 days ago
  • Kelly
    The Liberal equality hypocrisy

    I think it’s a good thing federal Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer has come out in support of marriage equality. I’m also down with Liberal candidate Sean O’Connor saying something to the same effect, even if it doesn’t...

    • Posted 58 days ago
  • Benjamin-riley
    I now pronounce you partner and partner

    Despite recent advances towards marriage equality in the US over the last year, married same-sex couples faced opposition last week from an unlikely source: the Associated Press (AP). A leaked internal memo outlined the American news agency’s...

    • Posted 95 days ago