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Queer Subtext

Essays that read between the lines — longing, repression, coded intimacy, and the stories that were never allowed to say what they meant.


From Subtext to Text: What We Lost and Gained

From Subtext to Text: What We Lost and Gained

Queerness on screen before and after it was allowed to speak.

Apr 5, 2026

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3 min read

The Closet of Prestige TV

The Closet of Prestige TV

Prestige TV Was Art. Unless You Were Queer.

Apr 1, 2026

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5 min read

In Honour of a Complicated Character

In Honour of a Complicated Character

Xander Harris, the yellow crayon, and what we do with love that doesn't simplify.

Mar 31, 2026

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4 min read

Jack McPhee Walked So the Gays Could Kiss in Hallways

Jack McPhee Walked So the Gays Could Kiss in Hallways

Before Kurt Hummel, before Nick Nelson & Charlie Spring, there was Jack McPhee.

Mar 18, 2026

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4 min read

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Netflix almost gave us a queer Machiavelli, then chickened out.

Mar 15, 2026

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4 min read

Closets in Sci-Fi: Space as the Last Hiding Place

Closets in Sci-Fi: Space as the Last Hiding Place

Or why queerness thrived in starships before it did on Earth

Mar 11, 2026

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5 min read

Brothers, Rivals, Lovers (Relax, It’s Subtext): Nathan and Lucas Scott’s Homoerotic Energy

Brothers, Rivals, Lovers (Relax, It’s Subtext): Nathan and Lucas Scott’s Homoerotic Energy

Two brothers, one basketball, and enough queer-coded energy to power mid-2000s TV

Mar 4, 2026

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3 min read

Queer Villainy as Self-Protection

Queer Villainy as Self-Protection

Or why I found myself in Ursula’s cackle, Scar’s eyeliner, and Jennifer Check’s hunger long before I saw myself in any hero

Feb 11, 2026

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4 min read

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

Or latex, subtext, and the franchises still afraid of us

Feb 8, 2026

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5 min read

Weapons, Queer Intimacy, and the Horror of Being Made the Weapon

Weapons, Queer Intimacy, and the Horror of Being Made the Weapon

On possession, proximity, and when love is turned into the site of violence

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

The Secret Queerness of Gilmore Girls

The Secret Queerness of Gilmore Girls

Coffee, fast-talking codependency, and why Lorelai and Sookie were basically sapphic co-parents

Nov 26, 2025

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5 min read

He’s Just My Rival (And I Want Him to Ruin Me): Angel & Spike, The Homoerotic Frenemies We Deserved

He’s Just My Rival (And I Want Him to Ruin Me): Angel & Spike, The Homoerotic Frenemies We Deserved

Frenemies or Something More?

Nov 12, 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

Static on the Line: The Gay Panic Sitcom Episode

Static on the Line: The Gay Panic Sitcom Episode

How the 90s taught us queerness was fine... as long as it was the punchline.

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Or come for the archaeology, stay for the bisexual energy

Aug 6, 2025

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5 min read

Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Best friends going on a hike to destroy some jewellery? Yeah, right.

Aug 3, 2025

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6 min read

Queerbaited by Aliens: How Mulder and Krycek Made Me Question Everything

Queerbaited by Aliens: How Mulder and Krycek Made Me Question Everything

Or how I came for the aliens, but stayed for the longing stares and trench coats

Jul 13, 2025

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3 min read

Welcome to the Closet: A Tribute to the WB’s Queer-Adjacent Icons

Welcome to the Closet: A Tribute to the WB’s Queer-Adjacent Icons

Where the vibes were immaculate, the representation was MIA, and the fanfiction had to do all the heavy lifting.

Jun 23, 2025

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5 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.

FOR THE RECORD

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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