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A white, curvy person is lying in bed on beige sheets. Only their toros and thighs are visible. They're wearing a cream-colored crocheted top and cream-colored underwear. Their hands rest on their abdomen. They wear a silver ring on the middle finger of their right hand.
First Person

How Masturbation Helped Me Accept Myself as an Intersex Lesbian

I finally understood that the “normal” I was seeking was mythical and that my body was beautiful and precious the way it was.

Guest May 16, 2022 6 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi Scrap, Lesbian Aunt Megan Approves

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Heather Hogan May 16, 2022 5 Comments
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First Person

How Fertility Treatments Got Me Back in Touch With My Queerness

I never imagined I’d have to get an IUI, or that there would be a silver lining.

Chloe Caldwell May 16, 2022 18 Comments
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Quizzes TV Feature

Quiz: Which Fictional TV High School Should You Have Gone To?

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Riese May 15, 2022 31 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Just a Random Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson Appreciation Post

Let’s celebrate seven years of age gap and gay theater couple representation!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 15, 2022 9 Comments
In a three way collage, from A Black Lady Sketch Show: Wanda Sykes and Ashley Nicole Black laugh together at a nightclub, Robin Thede dressed as a toddler makes a hand sign as if to say what's up, and Raven Simone in a green flannel and braids away from her face looks confused.
TV Lists

Top Five Queer Comedy Sketches to Celebrate A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Best and Gayest Season

Season Three wasn’t just the funniest season of A Black Lady Sketch Show, a declaration of its prime — it’s also the gayest. And so, here are the Top 5 Queer Sketches to celebrate Season Three’s victory lap.

Carmen Phillips May 14, 2022 2 Comments
In blue and coral pastels, a two panel comic. In one two queers are loading a U-Haul while yelling at each other, in another, once moved in, the two queers eat a piece of pizza.
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Reine #34: Moving Season

The amount of packing and U-Hauling that has been done in the past few months… Lesbians on the move!!

Ren Strapp May 14, 2022 3 Comments
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Plus updates on Top Chef, A Million Little Things, and 9-1-1.

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May 13, 2022 14 Comments
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Anya Richkind May 13, 2022 10 Comments
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The Comment Awards Are Slutty, Helpful, and Unable to Wear Shoes

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Darcy May 13, 2022 10 Comments
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Food and Drink

Five Ways I’ve Changed Since Buying An Espresso Machine

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danijanae May 13, 2022 21 Comments
The album cover for Kehlani's "blue water road" features Kehlani on a stone-lined beach wearing a white buttondown, and their hair is blowing in the wind.
Music

Kehlani’s New Album “Blue Water Road” Is a Sensual Exploration of Self

Sensuality is the overarching theme of the album, even in songs that are not explicitly about romantic entanglements. You can find it in bass lines, or just the overall vibe.

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 13, 2022 2 Comments
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AF+

Member2Member Advice: GARDENING

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Nico May 13, 2022 114 Comments
In a still from Netflix's First Kill, two teen girls (one black and one white with brunette hair) lay together on a bed underneath blue twinkling lights, the white teenager looks to to the black teen's face. The black teen stares directly at the camera.
TV News & Trailers

Also.Also.Also: First Kill’s Sapphic Teen Vampires Will Take a Bite Out of Summer (Sorry, I Had To)

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Carmen Phillips May 12, 2022 11 Comments
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Style

Fast Fashion Diaries — Fat Femmes On the Difficulties of Curating an Ethical Wardrobe

“Fat and poor people don’t have the easiest access to clothing that makes us feel fly AND is affordable.”

danijanae, Valerie Anne and Vanessa
May 12, 2022 15 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Toxic Work Wives of “Hacks” Are Back for a Second Season of Chaos

In its two-part season two premiere, Hacks blows up Ava and Deborah’s relationship. We love hot chaos!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 12, 2022 3 Comments
In a still from "Get Me Outta Here," Chrishell Stause and G Flip are making out. Chrishell Stause is wearing jeans and a dark tank. G Flip is wearing jeans and a black mesh tank and a hat.
Music

7 Minutes in 7-Eleven: Chrishell and G Flip Take Big Gulps of Each Other

Sometimes you just gotta make out with and choke out someone in a convenience store, you know?

Anya Richkind May 12, 2022 22 Comments
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First Person

Pay Attention to the Light Source

When I was 12, men started to ask me for my number at the mall.

Nico May 12, 2022 30 Comments
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Book Lists

In Verse: Poetry Collections That Conjure Spring

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danijanae May 12, 2022 2 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Cinematic Masterpiece “A Simple Favor” Is Getting a Sequel

The Age of Ariana DeBose continues, trailers for Queen Latifah and Jordan Hull’s Hustle and P-Valley Season 2, the lesbian vampire show First Kill dropped photos, and a gay wedding on The Young and the Restless!

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