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Four dog heads with color filters and collars that read Cyd, Zen, Corky, and Lucy Diamond
Movie Features Pets & Animals

Free Dog Name Ideas That Are Just the Names of Lesbian Movie Characters

4. Corky, for a dog with a tough exterior and a tender heart like Gina Gershon in Bound

Drew Burnett Gregory November 5, 2024 3 Comments
carol is so happy
First Person Pets & Animals

A Heartbeat At My Feet

Carol was the best of me. She filled the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be: an animal unafraid to make the first move, loose and generous with her attachments.

Riese September 19, 2024 29 Comments
a dog in a bed with a teddy bear
Dating Pets & Animals

You Need Help: Wanting To Move In Together but Unsure About Sharing Bed With Dog

“My girlfriend has a super sweet lab mix who I love dearly, but I’m very new to the concept of sleeping with a dog in the bed. I thought they made dog beds for this exact reason?!”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 19, 2023 7 Comments
a fluffy gray grumpy cat
Pets & Animals Relationships

You Need Help: How Do I Make Myself Like My Girlfriend’s Cat?

You already did things right by talking about this before moving in together. Now it’s time to talk some more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 5, 2023 23 Comments
WITAD? in yellow is against a purple background. A photo of Brittani Nichol wearing a jean jacket is below. Next to the photo in a yellow bubble it says "Partner's Pets" with guest Brittani Nichols" and then surrounding are various emoji stickers.
Dating Pets & Animals Podcasts

“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 204: Partner’s Pets

Animals, like people, have their own personalities and should be taken on a case-by-case basis. (AKA wherein Drew bravely says that snakes are maybe a bit sexy thanks to a certain pop star.)

Drew Burnett Gregory July 20, 2022 4 Comments
Two images of a brown tarantula
First Person Pets & Animals

Give It Time, Delphine

To really love anything, I think, is to run the risk of it not loving you back.

danijanae June 16, 2022 19 Comments
A collage of 8 images. From L-R: A small white dog wearing a dark-blue button up printed with oranges. Below him: A smiling model wearing a button-up in the same print. Next, a grey hoodie printed with the words “Welcome Everyone” in the Progress Pride colors. Below that: A crop top made for dogs and cats in the same print. Next, A small orange dog with ears that look like pigtails wearing a button-up printed with black toucans with red beaks, and green palm fronds. Below him: An adult button-up in the same print. Last: A Black model with loose, shoulder-length curls posing in a triangle bralette and high-waisted undies. Below her: A white dog with one brown ear wearing a hoodie. The undies and hoodie are both printed with eggs and bacon on a light blue background. The collage is framed in light blue.
Pets & Animals Shopping

Six Outfits You Can Buy to Match Your Dog

Because what’s cuter than a dog in a vacation shirt? A dog AND their queer person in vacation shirts, that’s what!

Darcy June 3, 2022 14 Comments
an original watercolor by Wallace May featuring Gabrielle, a blond woman, sleeping with her small white dog Kimberly on top of her
First Person Pets & Animals

What To Know Before You Get a Dog

When you first meet her, scared and sick and alone, you’ll know that if you don’t take her with you she’ll probably die. Of course, she’s going to die either way. Better to have a life with you first, you’ll decide. You’ll make it nice for her. You’ll try your best, at least.

Gabrielle Korn June 2, 2022 19 Comments
Two mini snails are placed in front of metal walkers on a set with purple concrete (they are walking on the concrete) and miniature trees and a pink sky.
Pets & Animals

These Miniature Snails Are the Small Pocket of Joy You Really Need

I have a thesis about why snails are queer culture, but it comes down to this: there’s a snail in this post that will sleep on a perfectly recreated mini-bed made out of a Belgian waffle. Either you’re into that or you’re not (and you should be).

Carmen Phillips April 30, 2022 6 Comments
Old Yeller, Sparky, Spike and Hooch, dogs who have died in movies
Movie Features Pets & Animals

Bury Your Dogs: 37 Dog Characters Who Died In TV and Film, and How

From Old Yeller to Biscuit, paying tribute to the dogs that were ripped out of our arms by the lords of the teevee and cinema.

Carol April 1, 2022 19 Comments
a tiny black chihuahua snuggling in bed with hand drawn pink hearts all around the image
Pets & Animals

Top 8 Songs My Moms Sing To Me About Me

i love you
you’re tiny
let’s go outside and pee pee

Zucchini Arson Friedman April 1, 2022 18 Comments
An orange background. A grey and white tabby cat sits on an orange pillow. On the orange TV are two brightly colored birds.
Pets & Animals

Birds in the TV Is as Good as Birds in the Window

My favorite channels to watch are Birder King and Bird Bonanza.

Socks Bobbi April 1, 2022 9 Comments
TARANTULA! b-movie poster of a giant spider attacking a woman
Pets & Animals

Hey — We Need To Talk About Tarantulas

“Everyone loves a dog that can hoop, or a dog that can save a kid from a well, but no one, and I mean no one, loves a tarantula.”

Delphine Sade April 1, 2022 13 Comments
Feature image of our pets: Lola, Tubbs, Carol, Winona on the first row. Socks, Zucchini, Buckett and Mya on the second row
Pets & Animals Quizzes

QUIZ: Which Of Our Cats and Dogs Are You?

Are you a Lola, a Carol, a Buckett, a Socks, a Tubbs, a Winona, a Zucchini or a Mya? There is simply one way for you to find out and it is this quiz!!!

Carol and Riese
April 1, 2022 48 Comments
A collaged image featuring Sadie, Nicole's girlfriend, and Mya the dog. Sadie is a white, butch woman with clear glasses and brown hair cut short and parted on the side. Mya is a fluffy malamute mix with a huge smile, big silly ears, and one brown eye and one blue eye. There is a background pattern of meat on pink. Sadie is holding a burrito plate away from Mya while Mya rolls on her back and attempts to charm some of Sadie's food away from her. There is another image of Sadie laughing while Mya smiles at the camera, having been confounded when trying to get some of Sadie's food.
Pets & Animals

A Review of Nicole’s “New” Girlfriend of Four Years by Their Dog Mya

“Since Sadie has come into our lives, the chance of meats dropping on the floor has increased from Zero to Some More.”

Mya Hall April 1, 2022 8 Comments
feature image of beautiful dogs and one cat
Pets & Animals

Editor’s Notes: Animalstraddle

Now is the time to seize the day (for animals!)

Carol April 1, 2022 40 Comments
Three cats sitting in front of a computer
Pets & Animals

35 Cats to Follow on Twitter in 2022

Social media is bad. Cats are good!

Heather Hogan December 31, 2021 16 Comments
Prancer the Chihuahua looking slightly angry in a field of purple flowers
Pets & Animals

Twitter’s Favorite Lesbian-Loving Misandrist Chihuahua Has Been Adopted!

With a special statement from Carol Aird Tinkerbell Junior Bernard.

Heather Hogan April 28, 2021 24 Comments
Pets & Animals Queer Fashion

The Real Stars of New York Fashion Week Were These Dogs and Cats and Pigs

They’re beauty and they’re grace, they’re puppers from outer space!

Heather Hogan February 13, 2020 27 Comments
LGBT History Pets & Animals

Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed with Their Dogs, Part 4

We’re back for a barely conceivable fourth installment looking at the big dogs, little dogs and doggy dogs of more lesbian and bisexual women of history who were obsessed with them!

Sally December 6, 2019 10 Comments
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