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Gabby Windey, a contestant on season three of The Traitors, explains that her time on The Bachelor ended with her being a lesbian!
TV Show Recaps

‘The Traitors’ Season Three Is Off to a Dramatic, Gay Start!

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Anya Richkind January 10, 2025 1 Comment
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AF+

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the team January 10, 2025 3 Comments
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Issues

The Worst Places To Make Out

I believe parking garages are some of the most cursed liminal spaces of the modern era — DO NOT MAKE OUT IN THEM.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2025 7 Comments
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Issues

The Best Places To Make Out

The best makeouts are like an ocean — wet, open, endless.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 9, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features LGBT History

A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold January 9, 2025 8 Comments
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TV Lists

40 Lesbian, Queer & Bisexual (LGBTQ+) Amazon Prime Video Original TV Shows

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Riese and The TV Team
January 9, 2025 20 Comments
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Baby Steps #4: And I Feel God At This Baby Shower Tonight

“When it comes to baby showers, my wife was pretty certain about what she wanted: not to have one.”

Riese January 8, 2025 6 Comments
First Person Issues

The Music I’ve Made Out To: An Ode to Queer Kissing in Public

I believe in making out at the club, at the dance party, in the backseat of your car, in the corridor to the stairwell of your building, in the movie theater, at concerts, on the beach, at sports events, and at the brewery where making out isn’t really the vibe but you’re so hot for it you do it anyways.

Stef Rubino January 8, 2025 6 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: There Is Something So Comforting About Dykes in Pinstripes

Towa Bird and Reneé Rapp unlock lesbian achievement level: wearing matching pinstripe suits.

Christina Tucker January 8, 2025
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Movie Lists

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For every award-winning trans movie made largely by people who don’t know anything about us, there’s a good movie made with an understanding of us or — GASP! — actually made by us.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 8, 2025 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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Riese January 7, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features Travel

We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!

As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.

Kristen Arnett January 7, 2025 6 Comments
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Shopping

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ashni January 7, 2025 3 Comments
"A few years ago, when I met the person who is now my best friend, I definitely had a big crush."
Friendship

‘Is It Okay if I Stay in Love With My Best Friend?’

“We’re not going to get together for a lot of reasons — I don’t really have time for a new partner, they’re monogamous and I am not, and they’re just not into me in the same way that I’m into them.”

Summer Tao January 7, 2025 1 Comment
Pop Culture Fix

All The Queer 2025 Golden Globes Winners: Baby Reindeer, Hacks, Wicked, Emilia Pérez and More

Everything gay about the Golden Globes, JoJo Siwa’s new music video about her exes, Kathryn Gallagher and Jacqueline Toboni kiss, Angelina Jolie at a roundtable with greats like Zoe Saldaña, and more!

Valerie Anne January 6, 2025 10 Comments
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Movie Reviews

‘Emilia Pérez’ Is the Most Unique Cis Nonsense You’ll Ever See

There are many bad movies made by cis writers and directors about trans women. But you’ve never seen a bad movie about a trans woman like Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2025 15 Comments
Book Lists

11 Great Queer Novels About Sisters

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to stories about sisters.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 6, 2025 2 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: What Lesbian Sweater Are You?

What’s a lesbian sweater? So glad you asked, but also, you have to take the quiz to find out!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2025 9 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

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Drew Burnett Gregory January 4, 2025 2 Comments
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AF+

Neither Of Us Know How To Make the First Move Sober. Will We Ever Have Sex Again?

Now that you’re sober, you’ve forgotten how to successfully initiate sex! Also, a reader’s partner has checked out post-election.

the team January 3, 2025 2 Comments
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