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Butch Feels Like Home

Masc lesbians in India are challenging gender norms and finding comfort in masculinity and stone butch identity.

Stuti Gupta

Jan 15, 2026

Two abstract, spacy shapes against a sunrise gradient background

identity

Do You Know Where Your Straight People Are?: Interviews With Allies (Including Two Cats)

In honor of our biannual Straight People Day, we interviewed two heterosexual friends, two cishet cats, and one past self.

the team

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Oct 12, 2021

A south asian person with long her and a baggy jacket is frustrated with their hands on their head

coming out

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…

himani

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Oct 12, 2021

Hayley Kiyoko, a Disney Channel Star who came out as gay, guest stars on Wizards of Waverly Place, placed next to the photo an adult Kiyoko performs on a stage with rainbow smoke around her.

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Happy Coming Out Day! All Disney Stars Are Gay Now, We Don’t Make the Rules

It’s modern gay lore that if you were once a star on the Disney Channel, you’re gay now. And for this National Coming Out Day, we wanted to know the…

Analyssa

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Oct 11, 2021

A hand that is backlit holds a magnifying glass up against a galaxy that is lit up in bisexual lighting.

identity

Three Bisexuals in Their 30s on Coming Out While in Long Term, Monogomous Relationships

“I didn’t want a divorce, didn’t want to open our relationship, didn’t want to start dating other people — I just wanted to own this piece of myself that I’d…

meg

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Sep 23, 2021

The author Felicia Filpatrick wears a shirt that says "Bi Felicia" (a play on the meme/saying, "Bye Felicia!"). She is overlaid in the colors of the pink, blue, and purple colors of the bi pride flag.

identity

Navigating My Biracial, Bisexual Identities Is a Lot Like Physics (Stay With Me Here)

What is Black enough? What is queer enough?

Felicia Fitzpatrick

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Sep 23, 2021

A brown-skinned masculine person cutting a femme mermaid out of a net.

first person

The Trans Body as a Work of Art

Burlesque is my loving manifestation of what all my ancestors deserved—not simply tolerance, but unbridled celebration.

Lawrence Gullo

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Sep 7, 2021

A person holding a shard of glass, on which their eye is visible.

love + sex

Mirrors and Makeouts: Finding Trans Pleasure

Within the brief eternity of our car makeout, in touching her body, I felt my shame begin to melt.

Sloane Holzer

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Sep 2, 2021

A trans woman lies on the couch, tilting her chest forward in ecstasy.

love + sex

100 Things to Try When I Have a Vagina

Of all the unexpected changes I encountered during my transition, the most surreal had to be transforming a part of my body.

Ophi Rocks

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Sep 1, 2021

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Butch Feels Like Home

Do You Know Where Your Straight People Are?: Interviews With Allies (Including Two Cats)

You Need Help: I’m Closeted, How Do I Get Everyone to Stop Asking If “I’ve Found a Man”?

Happy Coming Out Day! All Disney Stars Are Gay Now, We Don’t Make the Rules

Three Bisexuals in Their 30s on Coming Out While in Long Term, Monogomous Relationships

Navigating My Biracial, Bisexual Identities Is a Lot Like Physics (Stay With Me Here)

The Trans Body as a Work of Art

Mirrors and Makeouts: Finding Trans Pleasure

100 Things to Try When I Have a Vagina

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