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The Top 10 Queer Home Video Releases of 2024

Physical media is back! Or, for some of us, it never left. Here are the best queer Blu-Ray and DVD releases of 2024.

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Gay Things To Look at On Your Phone When Avoiding Family At Thanksgiving

Why engage with the horrors of X or Meta when there are 15 years of queer content RIGHT HERE for you to immerse yourself in?!

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Both Midsommar and Thanksgiving use the concept of a holiday celebration to distract from murder.

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Questions To Ask Yourself Before Going to Your Family’s Super Straight, Potentially Hostile Holiday Gathering

The answers to which might tell you you shouldn’t go at all.

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My Girlfriend and I Went Viral for Dressing as Chappell Roan and a Passenger Seat for Halloween

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Halloween

Drew Burnett Gregory Rates Her Past Halloween Costumes

Before transitioning I would describe my costume choices as a decades-long performance art exploration of masculinity.

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Halloween

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Why have Victorian homes become the default ‘haunted house’? Well it’s time to get your ass out of one to uncover your Halloweeny destiny.

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Halloween

Kristen Arnett Rates Her Past Halloween Costumes

Like many homosexuals, I enjoy dressing up. Is there a theme? Terrific! Costumes, wigs? The freakier the better.

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Halloween Quizzes

Quiz: What Recent Queer Horror Book Should You Read This Halloween Season?

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Halloween

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I don’t know when we normalized asking people what their worst habits are, but at some point, we did and now we do it every year! I hate it!

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If you want to work out more, that’s great. But it’s also great if what you want is to watch every episode of the original Twilight Zone or dedicate more time to long masturbation sessions.

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