Results for: meet up
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15 Creative Ways To Come Out to Your Family, Friends and/or the Entire World
You could come out to your Mom in the car while driving to the outlet mall, but alternately, you could come out to your Mom via interpretive dance.
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Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind
I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.
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You Need Help: Can I Date While Living With My Homophobic Parents?
Dating can be amazing and wonderful. But if you currently rely on homophobic parents for material support, it may be time to focus on planning the next stage of your life — one where you are less dependent on your parents, and have the space to fully be yourself.
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What Drag Has Taught Me
Every time I have gotten the opportunity to do mediocre drag as a beginner, I have had some of the most fun a person can have.
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How To Choose A Halloween Costume
Halloween costumes are traditionally scary – ghosts, goblins, political figures. Look back at the last 20 years and realize … that you frequently went an entire year wearing a costume and only got a reprieve on that one glorious October day. Terrifying.
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You Need Help: You Should Divorce Your Transphobic Wife
Your wife fell in love with you and built a life with you and you’re a woman. You didn’t become a woman. You didn’t trick her into being queer — her own feelings did that.
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You Need Help: I’m 49 and Questioning — Is It Too Late for Me?
It is not too late for you! Every day, we wake up and make our lives anew. What do you want your life to be today?
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Elliot Page Movies Ranked By Transness
Hollywood’s transphobia is no match for the shot of adrenaline that is finally being out to yourself and the world.
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Bisexuality, Queerness, Labels, Perception: A Conversation Between the EIC and the HBIC
Autostraddle’s Editor-in-Chief and Head Bisexual-in-Charge talk bisexual discrimination on dating apps, biphobic stereotypes in queer relationships, “the patriarchy,” and having tent sex in the woods.
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Untethered: The Designated Girl-Son
I came across the concept of the “designated son” on TikTok.
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A Trans Guy’s Guide to the Men’s Bathroom
2) Men do not lock the door.
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You Need Help: I’m 13 — How Do I Explore My Butch Identity?
Sometimes when you’re exploring a new aspect of your identity, you might feel like you have to emulate something specific. But there’s no one way to be butch. Go out there and live your best butch life!
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What Can a Nonbinary Transition Look Like?
People often understand being non-binary as a mix of feminine and masculine characteristics. That’s a start, but it doesn’t do justice to non-binary diversity.
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Autism Is Not a Trend, but There Are Problems With How It’s Discussed Online
Health conditions and disabilities are more than how many views a 20-second clip gets or the number of comments under a post. It’s real-life shit that can affect the core of who somebody is.
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The Echo of My Friend’s Casual Biphobia Destroyed Our Relationship
“Remember your bi phase?” my best friend asked when we were in our 20s. I rolled my eyes.
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You Need Help: I’m Closeted, How Do I Get Everyone to Stop Asking If “I’ve Found a Man”?
I am not of the belief that “everyone should come out in order to live their best lives,” but I do want to acknowledge how incredibly difficult it is to have so many areas in your life where coming out simply isn’t an option.
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To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing
You are eons beyond what they will ever imagine being possible. You are glorious, abundant, light personified.
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Getting Strong: A Conversation Between Two Nonbinary Humans About Weight Lifting
“When I say getting strong rules, I don’t have any number or definition in mind when I say that. It’s cool for people, as INDIVIDUALS, to feel like they’re strong and capable and I encourage that whether you’re bench pressing 45 pounds or 445.”
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I Came Out to My Parents Using a Slide Show, And So Can You!
The best use of a graphic design degree is a gay animated slide deck.
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My Gender Is Dyke
I wasn’t a woman, but a lesbian, an identity so powerful it’s the closest thing to a gender I have.