Results for: love is a lie
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Love Is Not a Lie, It Can’t Be
“It turns out I’ve been right all along: love is bigger than all that.”
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How Do I Re-Friend-Zone My Friend After the Worst Sex of My Life?
Advice on how to stay friends when the friend you hooked up with wants more, flagging with carabiners, and whether it’s okay if your wife is your only IRL friend.
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Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up
Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.
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You Need Help: How Do I Feel More Connected to the Lesbian Community?
This community would be so boring if we all had the same stories. And there’s no such thing as the “right” queer story.
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You Need Help: So Your Best Friend Is a SWERF
If you are out to your friend, or are thinking of coming out to her, and she still holds fast to her SWERF-y beliefs even after you explain how it hurts you, then you have one final choice to make: Stay, or go.
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Yes, Virginia, You Can Date Your Best Friend You’re Secretly in Love With (At Least, In Theory)
Someone has gotta make the first move, or you’re gonna spend the rest of your life hyper-aware of the fact that two centimeters of your outer thighs are touching as you sit next to each other rigidly on the sofa watching Masterchef Junior.
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Poly Pocket: Queer Platonic Love
How a a 28-year-old Chicana pansexual cis woman living in the Midwest, working in the sex industry, and in a long-term queer platonic relationship does poly.
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You Need Help: You Don’t Agree With Your Best Friend’s Advice
I think she’s being the most supportive—and she’s exactly what you want in a best friend, because she’s in your corner and she’s supporting you as a whole person. She’s giving you some solid advice here—this is a bad idea. It is. Darling, this is a terrible idea.
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Interview With My Queer BFF: Rachel Interviews Laneia and Riese About Their Friendship
“I’m really good at just torching a bridge and not looking back. And you are the only fucking person who has forced me to build the bridge back.”
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How to Tell Who Your Real True Friends Are
“Go to your pantry and determine which shelf or space in the pantry is the dullest or darkest, ideally both. Remove everything from that space one item at a time. Put the cake mix in the farthest place back in that space.”
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On Navigating the Unexpected Death of a Queer Friend
“You may have lost someone who may have meant different things to you than they did to other people, but at the end of the day you know who they were to you, and perhaps what they meant to your community of queers.”
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You Need Help: You Don’t Know What To Say
In which we discuss if and when you need to tell a partner about your eating disorder.
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How to Be Gay When All Your Friends Are Strai But Probably Love You Anyway
Tips for introducing that girl you’ve been dating to your uber-hetero friends. Plus how to throw a gin bucket party! So much relevancy to so many of your interests.