Queer culture isn’t an aesthetic — it’s labor, care, and resistance. Pepiita reflects on queer nightlife, community responsibility, and what the industry keeps getting wrong.

There is no single definition that contains queerness. What exists instead are shared traces: ways of moving, resisting, caring, and surviving; that surface differently depending on the space. This conversation reflects on identity without performance, care without spectacle, and culture as something lived rather than optimized.

Marc Bedikian’s Debut on COD3 QR made us want to learn more, so we followed up with a few question and the answers were so meaningful we have shared them in its entirety. enjoy!