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LGBTQ+ Culture

Essays on queer identity, gay millennial perspective, and the way pop culture becomes a site of recognition, survival, and reclamation.


Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

Or why every epic sword fight somehow ends with our bodies on the ground

Feb 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Gravity of Wanting More

The Gravity of Wanting More

On Atmosphere, recent history, and the quiet cost of loving anyway

Jan 31, 2026

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5 min read

The Evolution of Trans Allegory on TV: From Metaphor to Humanity

The Evolution of Trans Allegory on TV: From Metaphor to Humanity

How television learned, slowly, to write transness as human

Jan 29, 2026

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8 min read

Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics: Why Fellow Travelers Wrecked Me (In the Best Way)

Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics: Why Fellow Travelers Wrecked Me (In the Best Way)

Because apparently I only cry over spies and queer repression now

Jan 21, 2026

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6 min read

The Quiet Gravity of Pillion

The Quiet Gravity of Pillion

On restraint, desire, and what happens when a film trusts the body more than words

Jan 19, 2026

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4 min read

The Queer Melancholy of Friday Night Lights

The Queer Melancholy of Friday Night Lights

Football, cornfields, boys crying in locker rooms — masculinity undone under stadium lights.

Dec 28, 2025

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4 min read

To The Cluster That Raised Me

To The Cluster That Raised Me

Desire, kinship, chaos, and the strange comfort of seeing yourself in eight strangers.

Dec 6, 2025

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5 min read

The Gayest Year in Film Was 2004 (and I Can Prove It)

The Gayest Year in Film Was 2004 (and I Can Prove It)

When repression, bisexual lighting, and Natalie Portman’s wig ruled the box office

Dec 3, 2025

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4 min read

The CW Made Me Believe Love Was a 12-Episode Arc

The CW Made Me Believe Love Was a 12-Episode Arc

And Now I Expect Every Relationship to End Midseason

Nov 16, 2025

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6 min read

Eric Northman, Bisexual Disaster King

Eric Northman, Bisexual Disaster King

A Love Letter to the Pettiest Viking on TV

Nov 5, 2025

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4 min read

From Brokeback to Fellow Travelers: The Lineage of Queer Tragedy on Screen

From Brokeback to Fellow Travelers: The Lineage of Queer Tragedy on Screen

The Lineage of Queer Tragedy on Screen

Nov 2, 2025

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5 min read

The Censored Kiss: Almost, But Not Quite Queer

The Censored Kiss: Almost, But Not Quite Queer

A Study in Lingering Glances and Lost Chances

Oct 29, 2025

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5 min read

Game of Thrones and the Queer Problem: All Dead, All Gone

Game of Thrones and the Queer Problem: All Dead, All Gone

Why Fantasy Still Treats Queerness Like a Plot Twist

Oct 26, 2025

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5 min read

The Quiet Revolution of The Last of Us’ “Long, Long Time”

The Quiet Revolution of The Last of Us’ “Long, Long Time”

Or How One Hour of Television Gave Queer Viewers the Story We Were Told We'd Never Get

Oct 19, 2025

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5 min read

The Queerest Song Isn’t About Being Gay — It Just Sounds Like Longing

The Queerest Song Isn’t About Being Gay — It Just Sounds Like Longing

A breakdown of the songs that cracked our hearts open before we even knew why

Oct 12, 2025

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5 min read

The Queerbait Industrial Complex

The Queerbait Industrial Complex

Or how networks turned queer longing into free marketing — and why I don’t buy it anymore

Oct 8, 2025

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5 min read

The Animals: How Poussey’s Death Broke Us — and Why It Mattered

The Animals: How Poussey’s Death Broke Us — and Why It Mattered

Grief, protest, and the moment when OITNB became something bigger than television.

Sep 28, 2025

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4 min read

High Camp, Low Stakes, Zero Heterosexual Energy: A Batman Sequel for the Girls and the Gays

High Camp, Low Stakes, Zero Heterosexual Energy: A Batman Sequel for the Girls and the Gays

Or How Batman & Robin Gave Us a Queer Identity Crisis in 125 Minutes

Sep 14, 2025

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3 min read

Lafayette Reynolds Deserved the World

Lafayette Reynolds Deserved the World

A love letter to one of the most iconic queer Black characters on TV—and the radical power of his softness, sass, and strength.

Sep 10, 2025

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4 min read

The Gay Who Could Come to Dinner: Will Truman and Acceptable Gayness

The Gay Who Could Come to Dinner: Will Truman and Acceptable Gayness

How Will Truman became the “safe” gay best friend for straight America.

Sep 7, 2025

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3 min read

Please Like Me: Queerness, Depression, and the Most Honest Spaghetti Scene on TV

Please Like Me: Queerness, Depression, and the Most Honest Spaghetti Scene on TV

Mental health, queerness, and family dynamics—with razor-sharp millennial humour and a whole lot of awkward pasta.

Aug 31, 2025

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4 min read

Before the Algorithm: How We Found Ourselves in Media We Weren’t Meant to See

Before the Algorithm: How We Found Ourselves in Media We Weren’t Meant to See

A mixtape of late-night SBS smut, dial-up confessionals, Queer as Folk reruns at whisper-volume, and the merciless precision of the TikTok FYP.

Aug 24, 2025

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5 min read

Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way

Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way

Or how one sidekick in spandex unlocked my entire personality

Aug 17, 2025

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3 min read

Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation

Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation

Or how your fave came out, found love, and then died 20 minutes later. Coincidence?

Jul 30, 2025

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6 min read

“Darling Jude”: On A Little Life, Matt Bomer’s Voice, and the Kind of Love That Wrecks You

“Darling Jude”: On A Little Life, Matt Bomer’s Voice, and the Kind of Love That Wrecks You

Or a long, devastating listen that changed how I understand pain, care, and devotion.

Jul 11, 2025

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6 min read

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ABOUT THIS SPACE

Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

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Always in support of queer rights, trans lives, and a free Palestine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and pay my respects to First Nations peoples, past and present. Their stories, knowledge and care for Country continue to shape this place, and I’m grateful to be writing on lands where storytelling has always mattered.

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