My story, 'Becoming Gorgeous', which was published in Archer Magazine in 2020, has now been made available online. It's a meditation on ageing, visibility and gorgeousness. I look very grumpy in the picture they used! archermagazine.com.au/2025/02/hiv-... - ThreadSky

paul.kidd.id.au • 24 days ago

My story, 'Becoming Gorgeous', which was published in Archer Magazine in 2020, has now been made available online. It's a meditation on ageing, visibility and gorgeousness. I look very grumpy in the picture they used! https://archermagazine.com.au/2025/02/hiv-ageing-visibility-becoming-gorgeous/

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ttlyovrit.bsky.social•24 days ago

Love this. Sharing it widely.

violetartnow.bsky.social•24 days ago

Gorgeously grump though

katgallow.bsky.social•24 days ago

Thanks for sharing, Paul.

lindathestar.bsky.social•24 days ago

Beautiful article about an unbearably shitty, devastating time. Your mental shift, absolute gorgeousness, activism and living as queer in your own way is a fab role model for young and old queers

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Thank you

cybreco.bsky.social•24 days ago

You have a candour and way of retelling these experiences that is very affecting. Thanks for sharing. Also, I thought the picture was a serve!

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Thanks honey

reeseeree.bsky.social•24 days ago

Gorgeously written

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Here's proof that I am capable of at least a half-smile.

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Oner possible reason for my crabby expression is that the pictures were taken outside, on a deserted street in Brunswick, on a grey day in May 2020. Due to COVID lockdown restrictions we weren't allowed to use the studio space the photographer had booked.

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

I made the sash myself 🩷

andrewbettridge.bsky.social•24 days ago

Beautiful article. Thank you.

jamesmcahoy.bsky.social•24 days ago

this is a really beautiful article. thank you for sharing it, it’s very meaningful 💖

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Thank you 🙏

coolhandluke.bsky.social•24 days ago

Beautiful article, Gorgeous. Thank you.

chasb0.bsky.social•24 days ago

Gorgeous article, Paul. Such a beautiful read and there is so much I can relate to - as an old activist myself. It is weird but delightful to be invisible around these fabulous new queers.

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

Thank you

gordonkerry.bsky.social•24 days ago

Great piece, Paul.

odinstoenail.bsky.social•24 days ago

Good read, PK. You should write for a living.

paul.kidd.id.au•24 days ago

And give up the fast-paced, daredevil life of a criminal lawyer?

trudyontherun.bsky.social•24 days ago

Brilliant. 💕

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