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Monkeypox: The Who, What, When, Where & Why
It has been more than six decades since the first major virus – HIV – began wreaking havoc on the LGBTIQ+ community. Since then, gay and bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) haven’t known a single moment of peace. In the second half of 2019 COVID reared its ugly head, …
I’ve Dated Mostly Women…Do I Need to Say Bye to Being Bisexual?
Short answer: no! Long answer: The editor of this magazine thought it would be a good idea for me, a 26-year-old bisexual female, to write something to celebrate Bisexual Awareness Week. CRAZY right?! Yet when I started writing this, I felt a sense of shame and thought perhaps there’s someone MORE bisexual that could write …
Interview With Ella Ganza, Mother of the House of Alexander
Femme queen and pioneering mother of the trailblazing House of Alexander, Ella Ganza, talks to MGG about growing up trans, mothering Meanjin’s ballroom scene, and the SBS documentary ‘The Alexander Ball’. Initially taking off in 1920’s New York, ballroom has straddled the fence of remaining somewhat of an underground subculture while simultaneously playing a major …
The Aesop Queer Library Returns for 2023
After a phenomenal debut in 2022, The Aesop Queer Library returns for 2023’s pride season in Melbourne and Sydney. Founded on a belief in the transformative power of queer storytelling, the familiar regimented rows of Aesop formulations will be cleared from the shelves of Aesop Sydney and Aesop Collins Street, and replaced with 7,500 books …