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Sports

Brittney Griner Lost Her Appeal in Russian Courts, but It’s Not Over

At the center of this sprawling international pressure cooker is one person. A masc Black lesbian whose face reminds me of the greatest loves of my life. Who deserves a future, caring, and softness.

Carmen Phillips October 25, 2022 18 Comments
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First Person Movie Features

The Seduction of Aliens

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Nico October 25, 2022 5 Comments
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Beauty

You Need Help: I’m Butch and I Want To Try Makeup for the First Time

Remember that ultimately, using makeup and other facial cosmetics is really about making you feel like your best, most confident self.

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Movie Lists

40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism

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Lily Alvarado October 24, 2022 9 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

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Heather Hogan October 24, 2022 6 Comments
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Book Features

Ciara Smyth’s Queer YA Books Remind Me of Being a Teenager

The Falling In Love Montage (2020) and Not My Problem (2021) are as hilarious as they are moving.

Casey October 24, 2022 7 Comments
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Lesbian Sex

Queer Sex Horror Stories: The Tale of the Bloody Foursome

I was having my first group sex experience AND my first queer experience in one night?!

Jasmine October 24, 2022 3 Comments
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Beauty

I Tried the $56 Charlotte Tilbury Cream Bronzer for You

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Quiz: Which Sapphic Asexual Book Should You Read This Ace Week?

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Casey October 23, 2022 16 Comments
Food and Drink Halloween

The Hunt for the Perfect Baked Pumpkin Treat

I chose four pumpkin/pumpkin spice recipes, new to me, and spent a considerable amount of my October baking (and eating) them. Now I’m here to tell you all about it!

Casey October 23, 2022 19 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes for Scorpio Season 2022: Where Are You Ready to Say Goodbye?

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Quizzes

Can You Survive This Horror Movie?

Autistics, lend me your ears! Horror is our genre.

A. Tony Jerome October 22, 2022 20 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Good Gay “Grey’s Anatomy” Is Back, Baby!

Plus updates on our lesbian Survivor contestant, Vampire Academy, 9-1-1, Raising Kanan, American Horror Story, NCIS: Hawai’i, and The Equalizer.

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Queer Fashion

New Balance 237s Changed My Life, Welcomed My Mid-30s by Correcting My Stride and Attitude

I’m four years into my 30s and all the bones in my body were finally going creaky. And of course, it just had to begin in my knees.

Stef Rubino October 21, 2022 19 Comments
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TV Reviews

“The Good Fight” Season 6 Gives Carmen a Girlfriend

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 21, 2022 5 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Queer Enough and Ready to Party

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Darcy October 21, 2022 4 Comments
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Movie Features

Long Live Eurosleaze

For all the queer art being made now, for all the films and the television shows and the webseries, I never feel as loved as I feel watching some micro-budget Italian horror film from 1975.

Alison Rumfitt October 21, 2022 5 Comments
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AF+

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the team October 21, 2022 12 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Jeanna Kadlec’s “Heretic” Is a Memoir for the Witches Who Grew From Good Christian Women

Heretic is part memoir, part cultural critique, part political analysis, and part history, all viewed through the queer lens of a woman who grew up in the Midwest trying her hardest to be a Good Christian Girl, before finally accepting she’s a lesbian and nearly gnawing off her own arm to escape before she could be burned at the stake.

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