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The Australian musician Angie McMahon can pinpoint the exact moment of her queer awakening. It dawned on her two years ago as sudden as a brisk whack to the head. “I was walking in the graveyard near my house, knelt on the grass and was like, ‘Oh I’m gay,’” she recalls over Zoom. “I looked up and saw that I was in front of this enormous tree, and to the right were hundreds of Catholic graves.” The message for McMahon, a lapsed Catholic, was clear: nature would be her new religion.
