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Health Sex

Endometriosis No Longer Keeps Me From My Best Queer Sex

For the first time I was able to experience, without pain, the feeling of having my partner’s fingers inside of me and we found a new level of intimacy and excitement… How did I spend an entire decade of my life letting the medical system tell me that constant pelvic pain was acceptable?

Guest August 15, 2023 11 Comments
2023 inductee Becky Hammon attends the 2023 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Induction at Symphony Hall on August 12, 2023 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Sports

WNBA Week 11: Becky Hammon’s Hall of Fame Induction + Commissioner’s Cup Week

And, as always, Carmen’s fits of the week!

Natalie, Heather Hogan and Carmen Phillips
August 14, 2023 7 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey. 

Heather Hogan August 14, 2023 7 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Aubrey Plaza Brought Lil Sebastian to the Strikes

Plus also in today’s Pop Culture Fix: Archie comics’ first solo trans character, the lesbians of Heartstopper, what’s NOT next for Jodi Balfour and more!

Heather Hogan August 14, 2023 4 Comments
Nina Sayers in Black Swan looks into a mirror and has many reflections looking back
First Person Movie Features

How Many Times Did I See Black Swan in Theaters While Closeted? An Investigation

This task has sent me down a strange spiral of doubling and fractured memory underscored by a homoerotic hum MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE ITSELF.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 14, 2023 3 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Wants To Light Your Candle

How do you keep someone from stealing your bagel?

Kate Hawkins August 14, 2023 5 Comments
The eight possible results for this villains quiz: Harley Quinn Poison Ivy Catwoman Ursula Hades Captain Hook Lefou Catra
Quizzes

Quiz: Which Queer Cartoon “Villain” Are You?

I took some liberties with some of the Disney villains, but if they’re gonna queer code all their baddies, that means we get to do what we want with them!

Heather Hogan August 13, 2023 20 Comments
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Comedy

Things With Mid-August Energy

25. Atypically high utility bills :(

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 13, 2023 5 Comments
A drawing of Baopu, an Asian queer person with short red hair, in a purple t-shirt looking at a white flower that they've picked in their hand.
Webcomics

Baopu #115: Creating, Towards Utopia

The place I went to was no utopia. But it doesn’t stop me from making one myself.

Yao Xiao August 12, 2023 2 Comments
Geekery

MONOPOLY GO! Has Made a Monster Out of Me

I’m playing this game by asking myself what my actual favorite top-hatted person would do: And Anne Lister would stop at nothing to become a railroad tycoon! 

Heather Hogan August 12, 2023 8 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

A+ Crossword Is Ordering a Bloody Mary and Tipping Extravagantly

What’s the different between a cat and a comma?

Rebecca Goldstein August 12, 2023 4 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Valentine’s Gay on “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days”

Plus! Updates on Nancy Drew, Only Murders in the Building, grown-ish, and The Chi!

Natalie, Valerie Anne and Nic
August 11, 2023 1 Comment
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First Person Movie Features

After We Watched Barbie

Transitioning to a man in a predominately white world makes me resentful. Genders are floating worlds, and I am doing gender somewhere I do not belong.

Ocean Wei August 11, 2023 5 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Music

Bravo Dyke Obsessively Breaks Down the Lesbian Fantasy Morgan Wade/Kyle Richards Music Video

Kyle Richards plays Mommi Next Door in Morgan Wade’s new video.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 11, 2023 7 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Red, White & Royal Blue” Is a Perfect Gay Rom-Com (With Bonus Rachel Maddow and Sarah Shahi)

Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s beloved book is a sweet and sexy delight.

Heather Hogan August 11, 2023 24 Comments
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AF+

The Group Chat: Our Gay Boyfriends

I was a theatre kid for sure, but even by theatre kid standards… if your “dates” involve going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show together? That is homosexual activity, my love.

The Editors August 11, 2023 7 Comments
Batwoman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel's Runaways
Quizzes

How Many of These Queer Sci-Fi / Fantasy TV Shows Can You Identify?

Can you identify these Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV shows with queer, lesbian, trans and bisexual characters from just a picture and the years they were broadcast? There’s only one way to find out!

Riese August 11, 2023 19 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Definitely Played Rugby in College

Why do cows wear bells?

Kate Hawkins August 11, 2023 8 Comments
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Music TV Reviews

Netflix’s “Ladies First” Recenters the Women of Hip-Hop in Their Complex Grit, Beauty, and Honesty

Ladies First reinstates Black women as the founders, experts, contributors who quite literally built hip-hop that they are.

Carmen Phillips and Natalie
August 10, 2023 8 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“And Just Like That” It’s Queer Kitten Season for Che Diaz

And Just Like That’s writers try to soften the blow of Aidan Shaw still being here by giving Sara Ramirez a bunch of kittens.

Heather Hogan August 10, 2023 7 Comments
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