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The L Word: Generation Q TV Show Recaps

The L Word Generation Q Episode 205 Recap: Lobsters Too Deserve Freedom

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, MIcah attempts to navigate Porter-Kennard family therapy, Gigi and Dani get boozy, Finley explores her opportunities, Alice and Tom save shellfish lives and A BLAST FROM THE PAST returns to cause trouble for Shane.

Riese September 3, 2021 85 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Angelica Ross Arrives and “American Horror Story” Is Good Again!

Work in Progress knows friends are family (and not in a corny way), the queer teens have a night to remember on Raising Kanan, and Jess is STILL MISSING on In The Dark.

The TV Team September 3, 2021
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Making Kristy Gay

“Is being second-hand smitten a thing? Because my heart is so fluttery and so full!”

Darcy September 3, 2021 5 Comments
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AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #43: How Do You Reconnect With a Friend After Over a Year?

The Autostraddle team offers A+ members advice on topics from changing your name, to working as one of the only out queer teachers at a middle school, feeling pulled between different causes, maybe finally taking a break from a draining friendship, feeling like you don’t fit into queer community, and so much more!

the team September 3, 2021 25 Comments
Malika and Angelica share their first kiss, this week on Good Trouble.
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 318 Recap: Queer Love Connections

On this week’s Good Trouble: Dancing around an Asian lesbian love triangle, a whole other queer relationship forming, Margaret Cho — this show just keeps getting gayer!

Natalie September 2, 2021 7 Comments
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Sports

Every Good, Bad, and Gay Thing We’re Expecting For the Rest of the 2021 WNBA Season

Natalie and Heather got together to chat about the last three weeks of the WNBA season, including the Storm Slump, the Mercury dominance, and their predictions for MVP.

Natalie and Heather Hogan
September 2, 2021 19 Comments
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Gender Love + Sex

Mirrors and Makeouts: Finding Trans Pleasure

Within the brief eternity of our car makeout, in touching her body, I felt my shame begin to melt.

Sloane Holzer September 2, 2021 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 609 Recap: Guardian, Angel

Kelly, Alex, and the Superfriends set out to help a little boy and his older brother but end up uncovering more than they bargained for.

Valerie Anne September 1, 2021 12 Comments
Sara Ramirez Lex profile went u today, here they are on the red carpet in a black coat that says "Trans Is Beautiful"
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Sara Ramirez, Let Us Help You Find Love / Lust on Lex!

Sara Ramirez nervously joined Lex today, and we’re here to help make sure their dating app experience goes as smoothly as possible.

the team and Heather Hogan
September 1, 2021 5 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Bridget “Rose” Regan Is Batwoman’s Poison Ivy, Guess That Means She’s G A Y

That Life Is Strange TV adaptation is still happening, Emma Corrin will star in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Chyler Leigh and Azie Tesfai on Kelly’s heroic journey on Supergirl, and more!

Heather Hogan September 1, 2021 2 Comments
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TV Lists

September 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got new seasons of Sex Education and Dear White People, 90s lesbian Mom documentary, a sci-fi comic graphic novel adaptation chock-full of queers (including Olivia Thirlby!), a cartoon about gay superheroes and more!

Riese September 1, 2021 6 Comments
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Dating Podcasts

“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 104: Sexting or Something Like It

“Challenge. Sext in strictly second person.”

Drew Burnett Gregory September 1, 2021
A trans woman lies on the couch, tilting her chest forward in ecstasy.
Gender Love + Sex

100 Things to Try When I Have a Vagina

Of all the unexpected changes I encountered during my transition, the most surreal had to be transforming a part of my body.

Ophi Rocks September 1, 2021 5 Comments
A collage of Niecy Nash and her wife Jessica Betts on their wedding day: in the first photo Jessica removes Niecy's garter belt, in the second photo the pair makes silly faces, in the third they take their first dance as wives.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Simply the Betts! Happy First Anniversary to Niecy Nash, Jessica Betts, and the Greatest Day of Our Gay Lives

August 31st 2020 was a day that shook all of us to our core — a previously assumed heterosexual actress dramatically announcing that she was not straight via stunning wedding photos??? I was beside myself.

Christina Tucker September 1, 2021 9 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for September 2021

This Virgo season has a definite good girl gone leather daddy vibe.

Corina Dross September 1, 2021 2 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: We Are Once Again Reminded That “Straightness” Might Be A Myth

The 10 Black women who invented The Supermodel, Girl Boss is dead, and without Supreme Court action, tonight will be the night Texas abortion clinics will close their doors for good.

Carmen Phillips August 31, 2021 3 Comments
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AF+

The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 83, August 2021

“I passive aggressively liked it.”

Carmen Phillips August 31, 2021 27 Comments
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Society + Culture

5 Sex Workers on the OnlyFans Policy Flip-Flop

After facing backlash from sex workers and advocates, OnlyFans reversed its decision, stating on Twitter that the company has “secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community.” But will those “assurances” stick?

Ro White August 31, 2021 4 Comments
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Breakups

You Need Help: My Girlfriend is So Annoying, Should I Break Up With Her?

Your feelings about her are a great big neon sign spelling out the word B R E A K U P.

Vanessa August 31, 2021 8 Comments
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Movie Reviews

20 Years Later, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Is Still Outside The Binary

“For some of us, that will always be our relationship to gender. I’m a woman. I’m trans. I’m non-binary. All those words feel right for me. But I’m still naked walking down that dark alley a little unsure of who I’m meant to be.”

Drew Burnett Gregory August 31, 2021 11 Comments
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