Dean Arcuri

What is community? How do we build it? How do we sustain it? Mr VicBear 2026 is hosting a community conversation on Saturday ahead of Southern Hibearnation to find out. At the beginning of the year, Justin won the title of Mr VicBears 2026, giving him the chance to represent the community that has given him so much. “The bear community, for me, has been a place of finding who I am, finding my confidence and finding home,” he told QNews. “I met a lot of my friends through the bear community.

With the Mr Sporties Contest on Saturday, we caught up with non-binary entertainer, advocate, awesome human and Mr Sporties 2025, Archie Arsenic, as they reflect on their title year. “What it [winning the title] means to me and what other people have told me it means to them have been overwhelmingly separate,” Archie told QNews.

“It’s never been more important for allies to stand in active solidarity with LGBTQIA+ victim-survivors of domestic and family violence.” A powerful call to action on LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence Awareness Day by the LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation. “Domestic and family violence within the LGBTQIA+ community in Australia is not a niche issue – it’s a national crisis,” said Sue Webeck, Director (Deputy Chair) of the LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Foundation.