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Christmas Sex Toys Sponsored

Wet for Her for You: A 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Happy Holidays hotties! It’s time for my quick and easy gift guide filled with toys from my favorites — the babes at Wet For Her! I went through the site with a perfectly manicured nail to find the best gifts to give yourself, your partner, and even for playing sexy virtual Santa with your friends.

Guest December 7, 2020 3 Comments
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Breakups

#PolyamoryProblems: How Do I Know When It’s Time To Break Up?

The idea of breaking up, and/or transitioning your relationship to platonic as somehow a failure or throwing something away is one of those pesky ideas we need to unlearn.

DaemonumX December 7, 2020 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Clea DuVall Doesn’t Think You’d Leave Your Longterm Girlfriend Either, Even For Aubrey Plaza

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Heather Hogan December 7, 2020 21 Comments
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Movie Features

Jamie Babbit on “But I’m a Cheerleader,” Barbie Sex, and Getting Bad Reviews

“That’s my whole junior high experience: No, I don’t want to be friends with you. I actually want to have sex with you.”

Drew Burnett Gregory December 7, 2020 15 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Stands With Enby

Starting and maintaining online and long-distance relationships, the impacts of your attachment style, mourning your “almost” relationships and more.

Ryan Yates December 6, 2020 4 Comments
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Recipes

The Dyke Kitchen: Bold, Tingly, Spicy Mapo Tofu

When I went to college at Oberlin, where my parents met, I found out that my mom had not only been in the MOST hippie-dippie of co-ops, which was appropriately vegan, but was the head tofu maker there too. So I began to learn what she loves about tofu.

Kamala Puligandla December 5, 2020 19 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #80: Meet Me For Infinite Tea

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Yao Xiao December 5, 2020 8 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Binge “Filthy Rich” and This Tawdry Christian Gay Love Affair Is Yours

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The TV Team December 5, 2020 20 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Extra! Extra!: What Do We Actually Know About a COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout?

This week’s Extra! Extra! returns with some LGBTQ+ news from both sides of the Atlantic; an update on the COVID-19 pandemic, the havoc it’s wreaking in so many areas of life and the vaccine arms race; and rapidly deteriorating situations the world over.

the team December 4, 2020 32 Comments
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Christmas Movie Features

Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “Black Christmas” with Dani Janae

Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Dani, watch Black Christmas and have a mocktail or two.

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TV Reviews

“Euphoria” Returns With a Wonderful and Frustrating Zendaya Tour De Force

I ship Zendaya’s Rue and Hunter Schafer’s Jules like some people shipped Brittana.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 4, 2020 4 Comments
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Straddleverse

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Darcy December 4, 2020 26 Comments
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the team December 4, 2020 5 Comments
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Society + Culture

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Carmen Phillips December 3, 2020 24 Comments
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AF+ Lesbian Sex

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Sinclair Sexsmith December 3, 2020 3 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year

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Ryan Yates December 3, 2020 3 Comments
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Health

Does the Science Back Us Up on Period Syncing, or Is This One More Thing 2020 Will Take From Us?

Supposedly, folks who go together flow together. But does the science of period syncing hold up?

Ro White December 3, 2020 15 Comments
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TV Reviews

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“Does this place ever stop being weird?!?”

Heather Hogan December 3, 2020 6 Comments
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Politics + Activism

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Christian December 3, 2020 2 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

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