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Comedy Sex

A Treatise on Bad Kissers

I have found myself shocked and horrified by the seeming EPIDEMIC of inarticulate kissers in the world. 

Autumn Fourkiller October 30, 2025 2 Comments
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Comedy Sports

Brooklyn’s Top Lesbian Pie Eaters Compete for Delicious Glory

The competition setup is simple: Whoever finished their pumpkin pie first wins an award of $100 cash. No hands allowed or forks allowed; you had to put your face in the pie to win.

AJ October 23, 2025 1 Comment
Caleb Hearon in his HBO comedy special
Comedy

Caleb Hearon Mixes Humor and Heartbreak in New Comedy Special

Model Comedian proves once again that for Hearon, writing and performing comedy isn’t just a tool to get through the most grueling parts of living in this intense moment of anti-queer and anti-trans backlash, it’s a tool we can use to start breaking through it and breaking it down entirely.

Stef Rubino September 19, 2025 1 Comment
What Lies Beneath
Comedy Movie Lists

Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel

Last August, I was at a monthlong writing residency in Key West, Florida. While there, I did get a lot of writing done, but I also drank approximately 300 beers and watched a parade dedicated entirely to Jimmy Buffett.

Kristen Arnett August 26, 2025 8 Comments
Needy and Jennifer in Jennifer's Body
Comedy Halloween

If You Don’t Already Have Your Halloween Couples Costumes Locked In, Are You Even Gay?

Lesbians have been Googling couples costume ideas frantically for over a month already.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 13, 2025 5 Comments
Chelley and Cierra kissing on Love Island USA
Comedy TV Feature

11 Gay Thoughts About ‘Love Island USA’ Season 7

8. You know when you run into your ex and their new boo sooner than you wanted? I’d like to start calling that a “bombshell entering the villa”

mal July 9, 2025 1 Comment
T4T 3rd Anniversary Spectacular: two trans comedians stand on-stage in front of two musicians and a screen that says T4T
Comedy Community

Trans Comedians Laugh Amidst the Horrors

T4T’s Third Anniversary Spectacular showcased 91 trans comics and joked about nearly everything trans people in America might care about.

Fiona Pestana June 24, 2025 1 Comment
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Comedy LGBT Pride

My Platform if I Were Mayor of Pride Month

All sapphics must swear an oath on the Bible: if you don’t kiss your crush it’s because either party didn’t want to, NEVER because you were too afraid to ask

Malavika Kannan June 16, 2025 11 Comments
the hot dads approved by a trans guy roundup
Comedy

10 Trans Guy-Approved Dads To Thirst Over This Father’s Day

As a bisexual trans guy who really wants to be a dad and who has a really great dad myself, I have a lot of opinions about hot fathers.

Motti June 14, 2025 1 Comment
NOW KISS in the ring at WILL THEY KISS
Comedy

These Queer Comedians Are Fighting…and Kissing

This all-queer comedy, wrestling, drag, and burlesque show asks the very important question: Will They Kiss?

Motti June 12, 2025
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Comedy

Michelladonna Does It for the Queens Baddies

The people’s prince Michelladonna brings a native New Yorker perspective to NYC comedy.

Motti June 5, 2025 3 Comments
Comedy

Catherine McCafferty Thinks You Should Start Flirting and Stop Apologizing

Every single day, I wake up I say, ‘oh my goodness, I’m so happy I’m gay.’

Gabrielle Grace Hogan May 7, 2025 8 Comments
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Comedy

Quiz: Is She Gay?

It has happened to all of us. You’re just going about your life and you meet a woman and you fall instantly in love with her, but there’s one problem: You have no idea if she’s gay or straight.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2025 8 Comments
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Comedy

Anyone Know Where I Can Find the Trans Surgeries Advertised on Fox News?

They were saying kids could get trans surgeries as easily as getting a Big Mac at the drive-thru or, I don’t know, buying a gun at a Walmart.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 1, 2025 1 Comment
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Comedy

How To Come Out (As a Podcaster)

You are a podcaster. You can’t change that, that is who you are.

Christina Tucker April 1, 2025
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Comedy

These Sapphic Romance Ecohorror Novels Are SO Hot (Literally)

A burgeoning microgenre has emerged in the lesbian lit community that has all the girlies feeling a strange mix of sexual arousal and existential climate dread.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2025 12 Comments
chuck schumer carrying Motti into a volcano
Comedy

The Democrats Have a Bold New Strategy To Win Back Their Base: Throwing Trans People Into Volcanos

When pressed on why the method of volcanos, Schumer explained that it was time to reclaim the color orange from the current president and “everyone likes explosions.”

Drew Burnett Gregory April 1, 2025 2 Comments
severed floor of the gay club featuring a person with a disco ball head
Comedy

The Hottest Party Is the Severed Floor of the Gay Club

These trendsetting members of the queer community are all lining up to gain access to L(GBTQ)umon Club, the hottest club open right now.

Christina Tucker April 1, 2025 1 Comment
T stache
Comedy

How To Improve Your New T-Stache

I’ve been on T for a year now and I have the perfect tip for anyone just now growing their mustache.

Motti April 1, 2025 4 Comments
older woman and man at trivia talking to their child
Comedy

Visiting Queer Realizes Her Parents Only Value Her Astrology Skills at Trivia

“I suppose I should have been suspicious when they kept pushing for me to come up Thursday, instead of Friday.”

Christina Tucker April 1, 2025
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