🌟🌈 WE’RE SO HAPPY YOU DROPPED BY! 🌈🌟

We’re a brand new social enterprise and Australia’s first online hub of LGBTIQA+ digital media, designed by queer people for queer people. We’re building an online platform packed full of Australian-based, intersectional, colourful and engaging content, including: video, podcast, writing and artwork.

ABOUT QUEER TOWN:

We’re a new social enterprise and Australia’s first online hub of LGBTIQA+ digital media, designed by queer people for queer people.

Our mission is to create high quality and engaging digital content that is: queer-focused, Australia-centric, uplifting, and packed with intersectional representation to reflect the vibrant community we’re a part of.

We’re bringing together LGBTIQA+ people from all walks of life to share their artistry, expertise and life experience through a range of digital forms, including: video, podcast, writing and artwork.

Best of all, this huge library of content will be accessible in one place: right here at queertown.com.au!

We see every LGBTIQA+ person - metro, regional and remote - accessing Queer Town in order to connect with their community and stream high quality queer content.

So if you want queer content, come to Queer Town! 🌈🌟

💙💛💖 Today is Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day! We’re sending out some QT love to all our Pan Fam! Check out this collection of anonymous QT quotes on what it means to be pan 💖💛💙

❄️❄️ Check out our new QT Chill Spotify playlist packed full of queer artists serving you all of your soul soothing needs ❄️❄️
Link in our bio 🎶

Today is Harvey Milk Day in recognition of the pivotal work of American gay rights activist, Harvey Milk, assassinated in 1978. In the last year of his life, Milk advocated that gay people should be more visible to help end the discrimination and violence against them. At Queer Town, we hope to reduce the stigma, isolation and ignorance faced by members of the LGBTIQA+ community by lifting the voices and experiences of intersectional queer people across Australia. Storytelling is revolutionary and we’re proud to be part of the movement to forge a new queer narrative 💪💪🏾💪🏼

This week we’re spotlighting artistic mastermind @glynn.soy 🧠💫 Glynn’s creative sorcery spans across makeup, illustration, digital and more 🤯 We’re always waiting to see what Glynn creates next and we’re excited to be working together on an upcoming video project! 👀🤫 Enjoy some of our favourite otherworldly works from Glynn’s back catalogue 🌌🛸✨

🏳️‍🌈 • At Queer Town we want to use #IDAHOBIT as an opportunity to acknowledge that members of the same LGBTIQA+ community can experience very different forms and degrees of discrimination. • A trans woman of colour is likely to experience more dangerous transphobia than a white trans male. • An intersex person with ambiguous genitalia is likely to experience more dangerous interphobia than an intersex person with XXY chromosomes. • A bisexual immigrant is likely to experience more dangerous biphobia than an Australian-born bisexual. • As a community it is our responsibility to acknowledge this disparity in treatment and seek opportunities to lift the voices and experiences of those within our community who face higher levels and more dangerous forms of discrimination. • Who in your workplace is not being heard? Who in your friendship circle may feel isolated? Who in your newsfeed is experiencing identity abuse? • Intersectionality is powerful and fear of this power leads to discrimination. Let’s celebrate the intersections within our community and lend what energy we have to support those who need it most. • At Queer Town we still have a long way to go, but we will continue to push until *everyone’s* story is heard.

This weeks QT Muso of the Week is @adult.films.music ;
one of the 🔥HOTTEST🔥 bands to be coming out of Melbourne rn. Their music is packed full of soulful, sexy sounds that’ll make you blush while you boogie. They have JUST released their new BANGER “Rocketship” that we’re blasting (pun intended) in the QT office today🚀🚀. Head to our story to find the link to their new track and if you’re keen to support queer artists IRL, they are performing at Horse Bazaar in Melbs ‪on the 22nd of June‬. SEE YA THERE! 💃

WORKSHOPS

We’re taking Queer Town offline and bringing our LGBTIQA+ expertise to YOU!

We’ve just launched a new suite of interactive, face-to-face workshops designed to provide judgement-free spaces for groups to expand their understanding, learn practical strategies and ask questions they may not feel comfortable asking elsewhere.

Our workshops are led by highly trained LGBTIQA+ facilitators and our content is based on current research and the lived experiences of LGBTIQA+ Australians.

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QUEER TOWN x THE TERM ‘QUEER’

Find out why & how we use the word “queer” at Queer Town.

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MEET THE TEAM

ARCHIE BOULTER

CO FOUNDER

Name: Archie bb / Archie Beetle / Archie Moon 🎆

Pronouns: they / them 💈

Role: Co-Founder 🍄

Interests: Wearing earrings bigger than my head 👶🏻, watching horror films ft. femme protagonists 🔪, celebrating the queer bb’s in my life 🌈

Note to QT residents: I’m conscious of the huge opportunity and responsibility we have in building a platform that shares content and messaging true to our colourful and intersectional community - and I’m excited to have you all on the journey with us! 👽✨

GRACE CAREY

CO FOUNDER

Name: Grace “Meme Queen” Carey ✨

Pronouns: she / hers 💖

Role: Co-Founder 🍦

Interests: having the perfect gif at-the-ready for all occasions, making abstract video art & projections and co-creating content for my love, QT.

Note to QT residents: Together with Archie I’ll be working to make sure all content coming your way is hilarious, fun, supes high quality and reflects our beautiful, vibrant, diverse community. Cant wait to get to know each other better! 🌈✨💖