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Are Birds Gay?

The world is not kind to queer folks. And in many ways, it isn’t kind to birds either

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

Jan 5, 2026

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10 Very Gay Excerpts from Vita and Virginia’s Love Letters

The lives (and affair) of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is coming to the big screen this year. Here are some of the gayest things they wrote to one another.

Alice Lesperance

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May 24, 2017

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Let’s Talk About Dionysus, Genderqueer God of Partying and Pride

If you want a god of sex, wine and smashing the gender binary into little tiny pieces you might want to try Dionysus.

Siobhan

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May 16, 2017

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12 Lesbian Resorts You Could Visit This Summer If You Have A Time Machine

Hot women-only hotels, resorts and cabins to check out in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Palm Springs, Delaware, Key West and Montana — just be sure to check in before…

Riese

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May 16, 2017

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Artemis Is the Queer Girl Goddess BFF of Your Dreams

The mythology has her securing a promise of perpetual “virginity” from her father and immediately skipping off into the mountain forests with a group of like-minded nymphs. Together she and…

Siobhan

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May 2, 2017

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21 Unintentionally Gay Vintage Newspaper Clippings That I Wish Were Gay For Real

If only they knew, back then, what “butch” and “queer” might mean today…

Riese

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Apr 27, 2017

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Pompeii, the “Two Maidens,” and Thousands of Years of Precarious Masculinity

New evidence that the famous “two maidens” of Pompeii may have been male — but does that actually mean, as some have suggested, that they were a gay couple?

Siobhan

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Apr 18, 2017

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How to Become a Deadly Misandrist Fairy Vampire

Even one cauldron full of blood is one cauldron we didn’t have before!

Siobhan

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Apr 18, 2017

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Queer Folklore: M Is for Macha, Mythical Irish Queens of Misandry

Moral of the story: don’t be a dick to pregnant people. Obviously. You shouldn’t need a morality tale to tell you this.

Siobhan

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Apr 7, 2017

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