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movie lists

10 Gay Films You Can Stream Free in the UK (BBC, ITV, Channel 4)

From familiar classics to unfamiliar new discoveries, here’s what you could be watching on the BBC, ITV or Channel 4…

Sally

17 Hours

LGBT BOOK REVIEWS

‘Fat Swim’ and the Work of Having a Body

We are peeking into Philly neighborhoods, into their windows.

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Apr 28, 2026

BOOK LISTS

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Queer books good enough to eat.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 27, 2026

XO, Kitty. (L to R) Gia Kim as Yuri Han, Anna Cathcart as Kitty Song Covey in episode 305 of XO, Kitty.

TV REVIEWS

‘XO, Kitty’ Season 3 Treats Its Queer Love Letter Like a Fever Dream

“In any circumstance, this treatment of a queer couple would be bothersome, but when juxtaposed…

Natalie

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Apr 23, 2026

lgbt book reviews

‘Fat Swim’ and the Work of Having a Body

We are peeking into Philly neighborhoods, into their windows.

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Apr 28, 2026

book lists

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Queer books good enough to eat.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 27, 2026

tv reviews

‘XO, Kitty’ Season 3 Treats Its Queer Love Letter Like a Fever Dream

“In any circumstance, this treatment of a queer couple would be bothersome, but when juxtaposed with this universe’s own lore, it’s dispiriting.”

Natalie

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Apr 23, 2026

The Latest

No Filter: We Ride at Dawn for Meg

Celebrities (vapid Fluff)

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10 Gay Films You Can Stream Free in the UK (BBC, ITV, Channel 4)

Film

17 Hours

‘Fat Swim’ and the Work of Having a Body

Literature

Apr 28, 2026

‘Do I Count As Bi?’

Identity

Apr 28, 2026

Two New Books in LGBTQ+ Film Studies Remake the Field

Literature

Apr 28, 2026

quizzes

Quiz: Which Sad Song With a Dog Motif Are You?

Do you ever feel pathetic and disgusting in your unending loyalty? Do you feel an incessant need to be praised? Do you lash out in fearful aggression when backed into…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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Feb 18, 2024

An image of Cay kissing Vivian's chin from the Desert Hearts sex scene against a pink backdrop with green cactus drawings

movie features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Desert Hearts” Celebrates Lesbian Patience and Persistence

Sex isn’t the only way to encourage people to be themselves. But, hey, it sure can be convincing.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 17, 2024

An illustration of a Black woman with an afro who is looking in both directions, in the colors of rose and brick red.

breakups

I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming

Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.

Ahuv Ne'eman

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Feb 17, 2024

A friendship group sits together for some casual beers, the main character complains that they can't tell if they are getting too old to understand queer culture, or if they are just too isolated.

webcomics

Reine #57: Cool Girl Winter

“I can’t tell if I’m just too old or too isolated.”

Ren Strapp

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Feb 17, 2024

af+

AF+ Crossword Dreamed You Were a Poem

A duck walks into a bar and buys everyone a round.

Rebecca Goldstein

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Feb 17, 2024

Drag Race 1607: Out of drag, Plasma smiles looking up and Morphine smirks looking at Plasma

tv show recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1607 Recap: The Hills Have Eyes

Ru makes a little “climb every mountain” reference in her teaser video causing Plasma to do-re-meltdown.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 16, 2024

Stef and Lena (L to R) listen to Callie explain why she lied to the Hunters about an engagement party.

tv show recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: The Mamas Are in Town for Dinner on “Good Trouble”!

Stef and Lena all these years later, never change. Also updates on: Hightown, Death and Other Details, the season three finale of Raising Kanan, and the series finale of La…

Valerie Anne, Natalie, and Carmen Phillips

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Feb 16, 2024

Two latinas, one with blue hair and one with pink hair, hold each other in the shower.

music

Karol G’s “Contigo” Aches With the Longing of a Thousand Sapphic Suns

If you watched two Latinas fall in love with promises of not wanting to live life without the other, against one of the most infectious beats of the year, and…

Carmen Phillips

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Feb 16, 2024