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Breakups

You Need Help: I Feel Like a Bad Queer Because I’m Not Good at Being Friends After Breakups

When we’re friends after the breakup, it has felt confusing because everything feels the same to me intimacy and connection-wise, minus the fact that we’re no longer having sex.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 23, 2021 17 Comments
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TV Feature

There’s Something About a Vulnerable Bad Boi With a Troubled Past

Would I make the mistake of falling for a Shane-type? Sadly yes.

Casey November 23, 2021 25 Comments
Gentefied Season Two Review: Julisssa Calderon as Yessika
TV Reviews

If There Was Better Queer Latine Storytelling this Year Than “Gentefied,” I Don’t Know Her

In its second season, Gentefied soars. It’s nearly unfathomable how good it is now — how it matured without losing its heart, how it never takes an easy out or answer.

Carmen Phillips November 22, 2021 8 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sweet Sapphic Santa, There’s TWO New Lesbian Christmas Movies This Year!

Also! Cardi B invited JoJo Siwa over for Christmas, let’s talk about Mary’s transition to Poison Ivy on Batwoman, HBO Max’s 12 Dates of Christmas features a handful of LGBTQs this year, and more!

Heather Hogan November 22, 2021 14 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Yellowjackets” Episode 101 Recap: Okay, This Teen Girl Survival-Horror Series RULES!

Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, it’s a survival-horror series centered on a teen girls soccer team, a premise that in and of itself prompted multiple people to text me and ask: “Hey, have you watched Yellowjackets yet?”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 22, 2021 27 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes for Sagittarius Season 2021: How Is Your Perspective Changing?

Welcome to the wildfire that is Sagittarius season.

meg November 22, 2021
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Holigays Quizzes

Holigay Quiz: How Will You ‘Ruin’ Your Family’s Holiday Gathering This Year?

What’s supposed to be a “warm and fuzzy” gathering could easily end in a blowout, and you might be blamed.

Ro White November 21, 2021 19 Comments
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NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Paying for Porn with Crypto

A sex toy company won the right to advertise on the MTA, how to pay for your porn with crypto, how to travel with your partner and more.

Ryan Yates November 21, 2021 4 Comments
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First Person Food and Drink

Wild Cravings: Chicken Salad, Shrimp, and Soup

For my final (for now) installment of Wild Cravings, I leave you with three food memories set in Virginia, Norway, and New York.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 20, 2021 6 Comments
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Community Issues

Black, Trans, and Alive

There is joy here. I have dreamed of this 100 times, prayed for it twice as many.

Glori Tuitt November 20, 2021 9 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Welcome Back to Riverdale, Where Everyone Is HORNY

Plus updates on Legacies, Nancy Drew, Hightown, All American, New Amsterdam, A Million Little Things, and more!

Natalie and Valerie Anne
November 19, 2021 5 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Twenties” Episode 206 Recap: Stud 4 Soft Stud

What is happening this fall for Black queer women’s representation is unmatched, there is not a single point ever in television history where you could even find something comparable.

Carmen Phillips November 19, 2021 13 Comments
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Holigays Shopping

Holigay Gift Guide: For Final Girls

Whether you want to dress like a final girl, channel the energy of one, frighten yourself with a book, or wear your love of horror for all to see, I’ve got you covered.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 19, 2021 2 Comments
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Queer Fashion Shopping

So You Want To Buy A Coat

It’s mid-November, and where I am on the east coast, that means it is time to swan about dramatically in various kind of outerwear!

Christina Tucker November 19, 2021 11 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Cuddling Up With Ghosts

“‘Opportunity to be ghosted by Kristen Stewart’ was my knee-jerk dad joke response.”

Darcy November 19, 2021 10 Comments
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AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #48: Fears & Anxieties

The Autostraddle team answers questions that range from dealing with fears around being single, drug use, being vulnerable with others, and everyone’s favorite anxiety-inducing chore — going to the doctor.

the team November 19, 2021 12 Comments
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TV Reviews

Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” is a Failure of an Adaptation

The live-action Cowboy Bebop takes one of the most fleshed-out universes in a limited anime series — or, hell, in all of television — and strips it of everything that makes it unique.

Juan Barquin November 19, 2021 18 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Batwoman” Episode 306 Recap: That Girl Is Poison

There’s something about Mary. And also, by golly do I enjoy a love triangle. In the year of Beyoncé 2021, I did not imagine we would get this.

Nic November 18, 2021 17 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Does Demi Moore Have a Girlfriend? An Investigation

Rumors of Demi Moore’s possibly gay relationship with Masha Mandzuka have lit up the internet once again following a very gay instagram caption shared recently by Masha herself.

Riese November 18, 2021 12 Comments
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Book Features

Malinda Lo Won a National Book Award for “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” — And I Yelled

Malinda Lo’s National Book Award win for Last Night at the Telegraph Club comes at a particularly crucial moment for LGBTQ+ YA as a genre.

Yashwina November 18, 2021 8 Comments
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