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I Read My Girlfriend’s Diary and Now I’m Using It To My Advantage

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Is My Butchness Ruining Our Relationship?

1 week ago 3 Comments

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My Friend Expects Me To Hate Their Ex. I Just Can’t Do It.

2 weeks ago 3 Comments

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I Moved In With My Girlfriend and Now I Don’t Like Them Anymore

3 weeks ago 1 Comment

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I Hate That I Want My Girlfriend To Stop Posting Sexy Pics Of Herself On Social Media

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Am I Being Biphobic Or Just Setting Boundaries?

1 month ago 9 Comments

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My Family’s Mad at Me For Refusing To Go on a Homophobic Vacation

1 month ago 6 Comments

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Is It Crazy To Ask My Brother To Change His Daughter’s Name For Me?

2 months ago 5 Comments

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My Girlfriend Has Been Lying to Me for Months About The Weirdest Thing

2 months ago 11 Comments

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My Girlfriend Loves Period Sex and I Hate It

2 months ago 1 Comment

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I’m Scared About My Wife Using Her Ex-Boyfriend as Our Sperm Donor

2 months ago 1 Comment

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If I Didn’t Initiate Sex in My Marriage, We’d Never Have Sex — Is This Normal?

2 months ago 3 Comments

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Is It Creepy That I’m So Much Older Than My Entire Queer Friend Group?

2 months ago 3 Comments

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My Friend Keeps Getting Romantically Rejected and I Think I Know Why — How Do I Break It To Her?

3 months ago 1 Comment

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I’m A Newly Single Older Lesbian Baffled By What My Dates Expect From Me Sexually

3 months ago 4 Comments

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My Bisexual Girlfriend Only Likes Strap-On Sex, Should I Be Worried?

3 months ago No Comments

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How Do I Re-Friend-Zone My Friend After the Worst Sex of My Life?

3 months ago 1 Comment

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I Think My Hot Girlfriend Is Gonna Leave Me For Someone Hotter

4 months ago 1 Comment

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Help! I’ve Gotten ‘The Ick’ for My Girlfriend

4 months ago 3 Comments

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Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

4 months ago 10 Comments

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I Think My Girlfriend Is Drugging My Dog

4 months ago 10 Comments

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Friendship

Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up

4 months ago 2 Comments

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Did My Partner Trick Me Into a Lifetime of Sexless Monogamy?

5 months ago 3 Comments

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I’m Masculine, I Strap, I Love Being Called “Sir”… Am I Trans or a Masc Lesbian?

5 months ago 12 Comments

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Relationships

I Confronted My Girlfriend About Cheating On Me, She Responded By Coming Out as Poly

5 months ago 3 Comments

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Parenting & Family

I’m In My Thirties and Can’t Make Up My Mind About Having Kids

5 months ago 14 Comments

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I’m a Stone Butch Top Who Can’t Bring Myself To Penetrate Anyone Else

6 months ago 6 Comments

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Into the AF+ Advice Inbox #97: F(ix) My Life

6 months ago 10 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Inbox #96: So You Hate College

7 months ago 4 Comments

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Into the AF+ Advice Box #95: ANXIETIES

7 months ago 7 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married

8 months ago 25 Comments

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8 months ago 2 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #93: How Can You Tell If She Has A Crush On You?

8 months ago 6 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #84: Cheating With a Guy While Having Gender Feelings

1 year ago 26 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #83: ETHICS

1 year ago 17 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #82: Travel and Camping (While Gay)

1 year ago 27 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #81: So You Want to Act on Your Celebrity Crush

1 year ago 19 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #80: GENDER FEELINGS

1 year ago 24 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #79: Dating Women Who’ve Previously Only Been With Men

1 year ago 47 Comments

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Are You Pumped? Our 14th Birthday A+ Ask-Us-Anything IS NOW

1 year ago 839 Comments

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A+ Roundtable: The Team Secretly Told Each Other Which 3 Characters Describe Them

1 year ago 48 Comments

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Behind the Scenes: The Autostraddle Black Elders Interview Project

1 year ago 16 Comments

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Bears, Ranked By Lesbianism

1 year ago 39 Comments

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A+ Roundtable: The Weirdest Songs We’ve Fucked To

1 year ago 32 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #78: Forgiveness and Accountability

1 year ago 14 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #77: Should You Co-Parent With Your Queer Friends?

1 year ago 32 Comments

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A+ Roundtable: Our Favorite Sex Toys

2 years ago 9 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #76: JEALOUSY AND ENVY

2 years ago 13 Comments

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A+ Roundtable: That Could Be a Chart

2 years ago 49 Comments

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Into the A+ Advice Box #75: Is It Over?

2 years ago 36 Comments

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