At Vic, we often shy away from topics like love and sex, which can be attributed to the “bubble effect” that comes from our relatively small community. It’s hard to open up and talk about your private life, so to speak, when you know your readership is the same people you see on campus every day. We wanted to break that barrier. So, welcome to The Strand’s first identity issue. Our reasoning behind putting out a Queer Issue was that we rarely cover much content about LGBTQ+ issues. Beyond that, though, we wanted to open up the floor to new ways of expression. It seemed too contrived to set out with the express intention of filling all our usual sections with “queer content,” whatever that means, so this issue ended up being a fluid, unidentifiable mess. We mean that in the best way possible.
