#queervoices

Calling All Queer Educators + Creators! 🌈

AceVision Magazine is looking for LGBTQIA+ voices to share knowledge, skills, and resources with our community. Whether you teach through words, art, or entrepreneurship, we want you in our next issue!

💌 We’re seeking:

• Queer writers for educational articles, guides, or resource lists

• Creators who can break down important topics in art, design, comics, or infographics

• Queer-owned businesses or services who’d like to promote what they do (ads, spotlights, features)

• Experts in health, wellness, history, activism, or any topic that matters to the queer community

If you’ve got something to teach, share, or showcase, AceVision wants to amplify your work — and pay it forward by connecting you with our audience.

📩 Submit or ask questions to [email protected]

Let’s grow knowledge, visibility, and pride — together. 🖤💜🤍💚

I had such a wonderful time joining the Bisexual Killjoy podcast! We talked about bi+ history, sustaining activism, and what it means to love and care for our community over the long haul.

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Coming out can feel like a burden sometimes. 

Choosing who to tell, how to tell them, whether it's safe or not. It's exhausting, and it starts to feel like work or labor…all the uncertainty. 

That's why I like the term ‘letting in’ instead of coming out. It sort of flips the script. Coming out, to me, feels like you have to push yourself out into the world and decide whether you're ready to come out to a specific person (or everyone all at once!) and whether they're ready to receive what you have to say.

Letting in, to me, is like deciding who I'm okay with getting to see this vulnerable side of myself, with this part of myself that I might still be exploring or not totally sure about. 

It might feel like a distinction without a difference to some people. If you still want to use the term coming out or if you prefer letting in; 

or maybe for some people you're talking about coming out to, 

and other people you're letting them in to see the vulnerable side of yourself…

…you don't owe disclosure to anyone. 

“This is the outfit I was wearing when I first realised I was genderqueer. I was going to a Twin Peaks themed event with my partner and (naturally) decided to dress as Audrey. Half-way through the film I found myself nestled in the crook of my partner’s arm. As I looked up at them, I realised that the outfit was no longer just fancy-dress, and that I was not the person I had been when I first put it on. Not only that, but I could see in their eyes that they recognised it too. While my look has changed and developed since that night, I will always associate this outfit with that moment of recognition, and the feeling of love, strength, and fulfilment that came with it. It was the outfit that showed me how costume can become reality, and I will always cherish it for that.”

“This was my very first dress, found it at a clothes swap event only for transgender people. I remember the first time I wore it at work, how nervous I was before and how amazing it felt afterwards.”