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A Gift Guide for Your Favorite Iced Coffee Loving Queer

I have been known to don a pair of fingerless gloves just to have a better grip on the freezing cold plastic cup from my favorite coffee place that holds the sweet, cold elixir I consider my emotional support beverage.

Sa'iyda Shabazz December 6, 2024 1 Comment
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Baby Steps #2: Telling Chosen Family, Bonding With Heterosexuals and a Lot of Dog Feelings

When do you start telling people that you’re pregnant and how should you do it? Is pregnancy the great equalizer when it comes to the straight family gaze? Do unborn babies know when you are sad? Plus, Gretchen answers a reader question about how she came around to wanting to be a parent (it includes a Rock Bottom and the World’s Worst Dog)!

Riese December 3, 2024 22 Comments
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Holigays Shopping

Gifts for Cozy Season at Every Price Point

From stocking stuffers to luxury items, we’ve got cozy season picks from $5-100+ so you can live your most snug and warm life.

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Autostraddle + For Them’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2024

Get in here and see what all the gays at For Them and Autostraddle want this holiday season!

the team December 2, 2024 2 Comments
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Holigays Movie Features Shopping

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 29, 2024 1 Comment
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Gay Brat Gifts That Scream Merry Charli XCXmas

A very merry bratmas to us all!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 29, 2024
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Thanksgiving

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?!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 28, 2024
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Comedy Thanksgiving

‘Midsommar’ Is a Sapphic Thanksgiving Horror Movie

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

Alissa Nutting November 27, 2024 1 Comment
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How To Conquer Your Fears and Get Out of a Creative Rut

“There is a reason you started making art in the first place, and that reason is joy. I suggest you make something purely because you want to make it.”

swan huntley November 25, 2024
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AF+ Queer Pregnancy

Baby Steps #1: How We Got Gay Pregnant

My wife and I are having a baby and this is the first edition of Baby Steps, a column about the gestation and eventual birth of this human child who I think is going to be pretty tall!

Riese November 19, 2024 74 Comments
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Thanksgiving

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 19, 2024
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For Many Queer People, Cutting Off Family Is Hard but Vital

My wife, novelist Kristen Arnett, hasn’t had any real contact with her parents for about eight years.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 7, 2024 9 Comments
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Halloween

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

It was settled as early as August: Britt would be Chappell, and I would be a literal passenger seat. 

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Quiz: Which Spirit Halloween Animatronic Are You?

From the same twisted, gorgeous mind who brought you Spirit Halloween Animatronics, Ranked By Lesbianism.

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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.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 25, 2024 10 Comments
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Halloween

Quiz: Pick Your Own Victorian Mansion Escape Adventure and I’ll Tell You What Your Halloween Costume Should Be

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.

ashni October 13, 2024 4 Comments
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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.

Kristen Arnett October 10, 2024 8 Comments
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Health

Testosterone Gel vs. Injections: Which Is More Effective?

I’m not a doctor or a scientist. What I am is a trans man whose own transition experiences have made me curious about how it all works.

Max Gross October 8, 2024 3 Comments
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Halloween Quizzes

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

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