Results for: bisexual
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Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls: Role Models, Riot Grrrls and Revolutions
“I wanted this camp to turn me into a rock star.”
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Why Chasing Straight Women is for Amateurs (or Not All Lesbians Creep on Straight Girls)
Staceyann Chin’s got some explaining to do.
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Everything Happens Elsewhere: Northern Ireland in the Nineties
“Things seemed so big out there and we were just waiting for life to begin properly. I felt electric with anticipation.”
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On Camp: Being Queer Wasn’t a Big Deal, My Privilege Was
“I don’t remember the names of most of the people I met that week. Except for his: Tuck.”
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Faraway Friends With Pens: A Look At Letters And Notes
What do you do when you love people who live far away? You break out your best stationery and write a friendship into existence, obviously.
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On Camp: Girl Scout Camp – Freedom, Feminism and Hobo Pies
“My awkwardness should have followed me along to Girl Scout camp, but somehow I managed to shed most of it in the 40 miles between the city and that patch of unremarkable forest.”
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Queer Harlem: From LGBT Icons of the Harlem Renaissance to Invisible Me
Even when someone doesn’t know the range of the artistic revolution that was the Harlem Renaissance, they know the name. They know writers like Claude Mckay or singers like Ethel Waters but they may not know them as Queer Black Americans. Why is this?
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How To Leave Your Husband (Because You’re a Lesbian)
Once upon a time I married a man, had kids, and realized I was a lesbian. Here’s what happened and what I wish somebody had told me at the time.
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Going Mad in New York City
“I feel like yelling at people,” she told me. I didn’t really grasp then that she meant that. This was the very first time. This was the day after Easter.
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How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?
Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About My Sexual Orientation And Were(n’t) Afraid To Ask
The eyes are all asking are you in, or are you out?
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Being a Bad Gay: Things That are Begging, Even Now, to be Quieted for the Sake of Good Company
“It’s just that of all the spectrum riding, genuinely evolving, delicate fixtures of flight in my life, I so love my sexuality being articulated as concrete.”
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So You Think Your Girlfriend Might be a Lesbian: Words for a Straight Guy
Are you a straight guy? Do you wonder if your girlfriend might be a lesbian? I have some things to say to you that may or may not help. Lots of over-sharing.
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The PP & Me: Why We All Need Planned Parenthood
I’ve been going to Planned Parenthood for thirteen years, which is probably my longest relationship with anything, ever. I’m not ready to give that up — and you shouldn’t be, either.
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I’m With You In Rockland As Long As You’re Seeing HOWL There
In which Rachel discusses why she needs to see HOWL right now. “When I was seventeen I went to San Francisco to read poetry. Or maybe I went because I’d already read poetry.”
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I Don’t Care About The Future
Hey did you hear that Lady Gaga is thinking about possibly considering maybe ordering the chicken over the fish? No? Because I did! And guess what: ignoring this bullshit is the best possible way I can do my job.
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Everyone Wants to Get to San Francisco: A ‘Travel Guide’
Are you going to San Francisco? We did.
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When Did You Know You Were a Gaymo? Sweet Stories of Lesbian Awakenings: Part 3
Our last installment of exciting and surprising stories of “When I Knew” – true lesbian awakenings … with an opportunity for you too to share your story!
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College Lesbianage #1: I’m Looking for Girlfriends, Not Bridesmaids
Introducing “Lily’s College Lesbianage,” the first of many columns to come about lesbian college life all over the world . This week, Lily finds heteronormativity alive and well, even at Barnard, and copes with the anxiety of being a freshman lesbian weirdo surrounded by new people in a new city.
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When Did You Know You Were a Lesbian? Shocking Stories of Self-Discovery in the Roundtable Part 2
When did you know you were gay? Kate McKinnon found her inner gay on the X-Files, Rachel Maddow used “rational deduction” — and Autostraddle presents our own personal stories of sexual awakening.