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Quiz: What Lesbian Gemstone Are You?

Where are all my gays who love to pick up a cool rock and say “whoa that’s a cool rock” ?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 4, 2025 5 Comments
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Book Lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2025

Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.

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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is So Back

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Darby Ratliff and Rachel
May 3, 2025 10 Comments
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Movie Reviews

‘Another Simple Favor’ Isn’t As Gay as Our Fanfic

Is Another Simple Favor explicitly queer? Well, no, but also yes?

Christina Tucker May 2, 2025 4 Comments
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AF+ Dating

She Won’t Date Me Because I Cheated on Someone Years Ago — Ok Miss Perfect!

She dumped you after finding out you cheated on a past girlfriend! Also, how can you interact with straight women without seeming like a man-hating lesbian?

the team May 2, 2025
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

JoJo Siwa’s Breakup With Kath Ebbs and ‘Big Brother’ Sexuality Discourse, Explained

JoJo Siwa has been in the news a lot lately for coming out as queer, developing a soulmate friendship with Chris Hughes on Celebrity Big Brother UK and breaking up with her partner, Kath Ebbs.

Riese May 2, 2025 8 Comments
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Movie Reviews

In ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ the Men Have Never Mattered

Through the lens of Durga Chew-Bose’s phenomenal new adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse, the central relationship — romance even — is between Cécile and her father’s old friend Anne.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 2, 2025 6 Comments
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AF+ Parenting & Family

I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

At first you don’t really know which of the baby’s behaviors are going to be a Thing and which are just the music playing in the lobby before you sit down for the show. But it seems like most people’s babies have a Thing.

Riese May 1, 2025 24 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

May 2025: What’s New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max, Peacock, Apple and Paramount+

We’ve got a lesbian couple in Nine Perfect Strangers’ second season, new seasons of ‘And Just Like That’ and ‘Poker Face,’ super-fun new comedy ‘Overcompensating,’ a hotly anticipated ‘Murderbot’ adaptation and so much more!

Riese May 1, 2025 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews LGBT History

The Hidden History of Lesbian Phone Lines

London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.

Lauren Herold May 1, 2025 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Airyn De Niro (Yes, Robert’s Daughter) Is Trans, Telling Her Own Story, Has Great Hair

Airyn De Niro wants to be the Hunter Schafer of bigger-bodied queer people of color, King Princess makes her acting debut in Nine Perfect Strangers, a new LGBTQ+ hotel had a star-studded opening, and more queer pop culture news for you

Valerie Anne April 30, 2025 8 Comments
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Friendship

Love Is the Last Rainbow Cookie

Whenever my best friend comes to visit, she brings me a container of rainbow cookies.

Sa'iyda Shabazz April 30, 2025 2 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Megan Thee Stallion’s New Video Has Us Ready Whenever

Also Marissa Bode is wtf beautiful and more celesbian news!

Christina Tucker April 30, 2025
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Movie Reviews

‘Dog Movie’ Is a Hilarious Trans Comedy With a Very Bad Houseguest and a Very Good Dog

Dog Movie is about t4t vegan couple Arrow and Haven who have been letting their friend Bloo sleep on their couch for far too long.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 30, 2025 2 Comments
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AF+ Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Black Moon Lilith 101: The Astrology That Defines Your Queer Villain Era

Learn all about Black Moon Lilith, the part of your birth chart that chooses freedom over conformity.

G Weaver April 30, 2025 4 Comments
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Culture

PHOTOESSAY: Heavenly Bodies

Step into Nigeria’s LGBTQ+ ballroom scene with this photoessay.

Temiloluwa Johnson April 29, 2025 5 Comments
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Dating

‘My Crush Has a Boyfriend. How Do I Get Over Her and Stop Hating Him?’

Even though it doesn’t feel like it, these feelings will pass. What’s meant for you will come to you. In the meantime, dance/cry/sweat/scream it out.

Em Win April 29, 2025 7 Comments
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AF+ Love + Sex

The Married LA Parents Who Are Getting Off Up to 7 Times

These two started out as strictly hooking up for the sex, and now they’re finishing each other’s sentences. This is how they f*ck.

Sex/Life April 29, 2025
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Society + Culture

Pope Francis Invited Me Back to Catholicism

Growing up queer and Catholic my childhood was one defined by tension; I wanted to become both a bishop and a woman.

Lauren J. Joseph April 29, 2025 8 Comments
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
LGBT Book Reviews

Meryl Wilsner Has Done It Again With This Friends-to-Lovers Romance With Killer Sex Scenes

In a sea of skinny sapphic romance novels, I found Wilsner’s latest to be a refreshing change for the genre.

ashni April 29, 2025 3 Comments
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