The influential queer online publication Polari Magazine ran from 3 December, 2008 to 3 December, 2014. This site is the archive of material published in that time. The content is informed & insightful, and features a diverse range of writers from every section of the community.

The Polari Magazine archive is one of an LGBT arts and culture magazine that explores the subculture by looking at what is important to the people who are in it. It’s about the lives we lead, not the lifestyles we’re supposed to lead. Its intent is to help LGBT readers learn about their own heritage and to sustain a link between the present and the past.

Polari interviewed writers such as Gore Vidal, Clayton Littlewood and Jonathan Kemp, and musicians such as Tori Amos, Darren Hayes and Patrick Wolf. It featured outstanding activists such as David Watters and Peter Tatchell, and the pioneering organisations The Trevor Project and The Equal Love Campaign. Its focus was always on LGBT arts, culture and community, whether social and political or artistic and creative. The content is written to a high standard, and it does not talk down to its readers.

Polari Magazine was always designed to nurture the idea of community, whether you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, or queer. It was never simply yet another gay online magazine.