Category: Archer’s Just the Tips
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5 TIPS ON HOW TO DEAL WITH HOMO FOMO
Zach McKenzie is a publicist and writer based in Houston. He covers local and national LGBTQ+ stories for a variety of publications.
We’ve all been there. A casual afternoon scrolling Instagram suddenly, without warning, turns into a minor depressive spiral filled with feelings of insecurity. The culprit? FOMO, or “fear of missing out.” Videos of groups of gays gathered poolside while EDM music pulsates in the background, photos of your peers gathered scantily clad at a house…
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5 TIPS FOR DATING IN EARLY RECOVERY
Spencer Jenkins is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Queer Kentucky, a southern LGBTQ+ publication based in Louisville, Kentucky. His writing has also appeared in Queerency, SENSITIVE CONTENT, and KentuckyTourism.com.
My name is Spencer and I am an addict and alcoholic (this is where you say, “Hi, Spencer!”). After I came out of the closet, I tumbled down the rejection stairs constructed from conservative societal norms, and acquired bruises and scrapes that I now claim as “gay trauma,” or what others call my “entire personality.”…
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5 TIPS ON HOW TO EMBRACE INCLUSIVITY IN DATING
Daniel J. Downer is a GLAAD Award-winning community activist and is currently a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consultant at The Equality Institute, He blends his lived experiences as a Black Queer Muslim man living with HIV in the South with his educational and professional background, leading movements around diversity, equity, and inclusion with a focus around antiracism, HIV, and LGBTQ+ issues.
In the gay and queer community, embracing our identities while navigating the dating scene can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. Some of us find ourselves at the crossroads where being our true selves can be intimidating because we’re not sure if it will lead to acceptance, connection, or rejection. So…
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6 TIPS ON HOW TO TALK TO YOUR PARTNER ABOUT COSMETIC TREATMENTS
By Chris Bustamante, DNP, NP-C, Aesthetic Nurse Practitioner and Founder of Lushful Aesthetics
With aesthetic treatments becoming more mainstream, it’s very possible either you or your current or future partner have had, or at least considered, a cosmetic procedure. Discussing it, though, can be a sensitive topic given there can still be a bit of a stigma associated with it and people may be hesitant to share their…
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5 TIPS FOR DIVING BACK INTO THE DATING POOL
Jordan Daniel Lantz is a marketer and writer focused on the ups and downs of queer dating. His current project, The Guy and the Grub, is a personal blog that grades both the restaurants he visits and the guys he dates.
The dating experience can have its share of stops and starts. Take it from someone who has often hopped in and out of the dating pool. It’s important to recognize that dating again can sometimes feel like going back into the ocean after seeing Jaws, especially if you’ve experienced a tough breakup or a rough…
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5 TIPS FOR DATING IN THE AGE OF FLAKES WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING FOR COMMITMENT
Zachary Zane is a sex and relationship columnist who recently authored Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto.
I believe it was Aristotle who famously said, “Dating is a pain in the ass.” And he wasn’t even talking about dating for gay, bisexual, and queer men in the year of our Lord and Savior, 2024. There are some challenges that seem to be heightened when it comes to queer men in the era…
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TIPS ON DATING SOMEONE LIVING WITH HIV
Tony Morrison is an Emmy and GLAAD Award-earning journalist and creator now serving as GLAAD’s Senior Director of Communications. Previously he had worked for a decade as a morning TV producer. It was during this time that he came out as living with HIV in secret for years in a powerful essay for Good Morning America. Today, Tony’s courage to share his lived experience invites a welcome new narrative for people like him living with undetectable HIV.
HIV. Just seeing those three letters together can elicit terrifying thoughts and emotions. Yes, HIV brings with it a cruel past. Yes, an HIV diagnosis can be awful. Yes, we must keep top of mind the generations of people we’ve lost to HIV over the years. No, HIV, and those living with HIV, are not…
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TIPS ON HOW TO NOT ALWAYS GO FOR THE SAME TYPE
Trevor Kuhn is a certified love and relationship coach based in New York City.
Humans are creatures of habit. We get used to doing things a certain way – whether good for us or not – and this includes in dating and relationships. It’s why most people have their “type,” something that friends playfully point out when we share that we’re into someone new, who looks just like our…
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TIPS ON HIV & AIDS 101 FROM TONY MORRISON
Tony Morrison is an Emmy and GLAAD Award-earning journalist and creator. As GLAAD’s Senior Director of Communications, he amplifies LGBTQ stories and brings truth to experiences like his for people living with undetectable HIV.
It goes without saying that HIV/AIDS has been the most impactful health crisis the LGBTQ community has ever faced. It’s reported that over 100,000 people died of AIDS in the U.S. between 1981 and 1990. As a community, we lost an entire generation. While deaths have slowed as a result of advanced treatment of HIV…
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TIPS ON COPING WITH INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA
Michael Kaye is the Director of Brand Marketing & Communications on Archer, and spent 5+ years volunteering with the Human Rights Campaign.
You may be asking, what is internalized homophobia? It’s something many queer people experience, and it’s what happens when LGBTQ people direct the hatred they experience from the sexual majority (straight people) towards themselves. According to The Rainbow Project, internalized homophobia —— can affect gay, lesbian and bisexual people, and even heterosexual people who have…