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Patrick Lenton

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(He/him) Reporter at ABC Everyday. Author of some books including Sexy Tales of Paleontology. All views expressed are my own.
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queer media is in a boom, but Natalie Oganesyan asks where all the happy wlw are on our screens? Great new article on Nonsense this week, that looks at how "representation" in media isn't equal across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
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great article on Nonsense today - our columnist @nataliesqrl.bsky.social interviews the very impressive Maggie Perry from 6 News, probably Australia's youngest election analyst, about politics and being working trans journalists.

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feel like a close and very clever and funny reading of queer sex scenes on screen? Well you are ABSOLUTELY in luck because here's a fantastic new article on Nonsense all about the queer gaze and other sexy stuff. it's a great article, free to all subscribers to read!

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I think most people know that LGBTQIA+ journalists suffer from a LOT of harassment and abuse, but this new report on Nonsense by Finbarr Toesland really shows just how bad it is, and just how badly media organisations are failing to protect their queer workers as a result.

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Yeah it’s so good! Why is nobody raving about it????

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on the newsetter today, MJ O'Neill talks about this new, even queerer, incarnation of Doctor Who. "with his latest era, Russell T Davies is taking all the queer joy, inclusion, community, life, and love that’s always rumbled throughout Doctor Who and actively weaponising it"

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Great column. It’s also revealing that the people calling Palestinians homophobic are arguing in favour of bombing queer Paestinians.

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Yes, pink washers should! Thanks for supporting the cause 🍉

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I asked the brilliant Fahad Ali if he could write about the bad-faith pinkwashing of Israel's genocide against Palestine, and it's a must-read if only for how ANNOYED he is about this discourse: "how can anyone take this seriously? Why do I even have to write about this?"

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Ong I just read your comment and it is EVERYTHING. Thank you!!!

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[At the gay club] HIM: Dude what’s in your pocket? ME: I’m doing the handkerchief code thing. HIM: That’s a semaphore flag. Where did you even get this? [Meanwhile, at sea] SAILOR: Sir the merchant frigate has indicated it’s a bottom into blowjobs

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new column from me - I chatted to Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton and Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell about romance stories and dating ahead of season 3, and tried my best to learn something from it? They were all such delights to chat to!

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the brilliant @nataliesqrl.bsky.social breaking down everything that happened at eurovision2024, the boycott, and what the song contest needs to do to survive after such a fraught year.
"The contest is a beautifully powerful event when it upholds its values, but it can be horrific when it doesn’t."

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if anyone is wondering how I afford to do this newsletter caper, it involves working three jobs at once, including a 6am morning shift job. No real point except to say I am very tired, and I need 9 more paid subscribers to reach my halfway goal
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com

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Hey, wanna come over and listen to me hum the Fiirkraag fight music from memory? Because I can do that. Thrilled to have an essay in @corditepoetry about how playing Baldurs Gate 2 on repeat for 20 years has taught me about narrative choice.
cordite.org.au/essays/baldu...

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proud to have this piece on Nonsense by one of our country's best writers, @omarsakr.bsky.social, talking about the connecting fascism of the Cumberland Council queer book ban, the censoring of pro-Palestinian voices, and other ways that conservatives try to control us via children.

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in my latest essay I dig into automated gender recognition tech, which codifies reductive notions of gender and sits within a long history of trash pseudoscience and projects of gendered and racialised classification and domination. read here:
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/computers-...

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This is paywalled so you will need to subscribe to read it, but holy moly, it's worth it for this article alone. @floreani.bsky.social really nails it. Also, I only subscribed recently but already finding the site one of the best sources of intelligent, informed commentary around. Go subscribe.

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This is one of our paywalled articles - we paywall half our our articles through the month, accessible only to our paid subscribers. You should subscribe though! It's how we keep paying our writers.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com

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ridiculously good article on nonsense today. Here's Sam Floreani talking about the gender-essentialist nightmare technology that is gender recognition software, which is at the heart of the Tickle V Giggle case in Australia right now.

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obsessed with this essay from Ellis Durand on nonsense today, which deep dives into the lesbian anthem nature of Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan. Wait until you find out what the "dream husband assignment" is, truly wild. I believe in spreading the gospel of chappell roan

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I know I should be on here more, but I’m ever so overworked. In the meantime here’s some really cunty shots of me

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“It’s confronting to accept how deeply an icon such as J.K. Rowling has been channelling neo-Nazi rhetoric such as Holocaust denial, but confronting realities such as this is the exact purpose of the media. Or it should be, anyway.”

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this makes me so angry. The CASS review is anti trans propaganda carefully disguised as science. Fuck that noise.

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if you're at all across LGBTQIA+ issues, you've probably heard about the The Cass Review, which "investigates" gender affirming care in the UK. This excellent and hefty explainer by @epistemophagy.bsky.social not only explains the review, but also its flaws and consequences. Read the article here:

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I’ll consider opening it up for general consumption after a week or so, but right now every 2nd article is paywalled so that we can keep paying authors x

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This is a really comprehensive and scholarly explanation, and I really recommend everyone read it, as the cass review will most likely be a spectre that haunts everything in LGBTQIA+ politics and media, even in Australia.

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if you're at all across LGBTQIA+ issues, you've probably heard about the The Cass Review, which "investigates" gender affirming care in the UK. This excellent and hefty explainer by @epistemophagy.bsky.social not only explains the review, but also its flaws and consequences. Read the article here:

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"This willful ignorance allows them to report on these events without actually engaging with the issues themselves; they continue to platform the kinds of voices that fuel these violent acts without drawing any connection between the two". Please considering subscribing to the newsletter!

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Hey friends, I’m thrilled because nonsense newsletter is opening up pitches for our LGBTQIA+ Media Watch Project. We’re looking for feature articles on queer representation across the media from LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists. We pay $400 AUD minimum fyi

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Having a bit of a rough time but Patrick let me write an extremely silly breakdown of my fave 10 seconds of film

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Thrilled to havethe perfect @brocklesnitch.bsky.social
on the newsletter today, talking about this perfect moment of gay history: the gay/blind mountain climber blooper. Perfect. This is funny!

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On the newsletter today I was lucky enough to interview the very impressive @alicemaiomackay about film and horror and making a film where chasers are evil parasitic alien worms

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"That is precisely why it needs to be preceded by 35,000+ words of inflammatory commentary by Shellenberger – without it, the screenshots are just normal risk-assessment conversations between doctors that is not unique to gender-affirming healthcare."

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