For Peter and perhaps other queers coming of age before the AIDS crisis, coming out was a process of enculturation into a specific community. Rather than simply something you said, it meant learning to be gay in a specific place and time, and importantly, learning how to do that from other people who had learned it before you.

A discourse that divorces suicide from society is the only one that can imagine a nation without suicide with one breath, then assess the threat of loneliness primarily in terms of economic productivity with the next.

In recent weeks, the debate over the Safe Schools Coalition anti-bullying program has intensified, taking what is in many ways a bizarre turn. One of the more interesting elements of this has been the debate it has created about the role gender and sexual politics can and should play within Marxism. Here enters Guy Rundle.