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Relationships

‘The Lack of Physical Affection From My Girlfriend Is Becoming Unbearable’

“I just feel like a huge 30-year-old crybaby thinking about asking for more physical affection and, on my worst days, starting to think ‘maybe moving in was a mistake.'”

Summer Tao June 18, 2024 6 Comments
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Movie Features

With Its Pride Slate, the Criterion Collection Wants Us To Be Gay and (Maybe) Do Crime

To even say, Criterion’s Pride releases is a sign of our changed — and improved — times.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 18, 2024
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Pop Culture Fix

All The Gay Stuff From the 2024 Tonys: Angelina Jolie, Maleah Joi Moon, Sarah Paulson and So Much More

Who all’s gay at the Tony Awards, Danielle Savre’s next project, Billie Eilish’s is setting new records, everyone’s loving Kristen Stewart’s new road trip comedy, and more queer news for you!

Valerie Anne June 17, 2024 4 Comments
Bobbi Salvör Menuez interview: a triptych of photos of Bobbi
Movie Features

Bobbi Salvör Menuez Is a Bad Liar

“I’m just so grateful that I got to work on Adam when I did. Literally six months before we started filming, I bought my first binder and went through a breakup with this cis boy I’d been dating.”

Drew Burnett Gregory June 17, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Wreck’ Season Two Said It’s Hot Queer Slasher Summer

‘Wreck’ turns the horrors of capitalism into slasher-comedy thrills.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 17, 2024
Cora Bora: Meg Stalter stands at a microphone with an acoustic guitar
Movie Reviews

‘Cora Bora’ Stars Meg Stalter as a Messy Grieving Bisexual

I love an indie about a messy bisexual. Throw in good songs and a lovely third act, and I can forgive some imperfections.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 17, 2024
5 across / 5 letters / Presents for some butches' birthdays
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Likes Both Boobs and Birds

If you also like boobs and birds, check out this puzzle!

Emet Ozar June 17, 2024
Disco Soundtrack to a Revolution: Vicki Wickham Patti Labelle Sarah Dash walk next to a car with sunglasses on.
TV Reviews

Disco Was Always for the Gays

Just in time for Pride, PBS is releasing the three-part documentary series ‘Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution’ that tracks the rise and fall of disco over the course of the 1970s.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 16, 2024 4 Comments
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Quizzes

Which Contemporary Queer Singer Are You?

Find out which queer singer of the moment you best embody by answering some gay questions!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 16, 2024 9 Comments
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Beauty

Sweat Is Sexy Now

Challengers. Tove Lo. Climate Crisis. Welcome to the summer of sweat.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 15, 2024 5 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #125: Our Place

Making art not only helps us process what we fear, but also makes a place where more art can grow.

Yao Xiao June 15, 2024
4 across / 3 letters / "Yellowjackets" network, for short
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is a Hat Gay

But the kind that appreciates that there are non-hat gays out there.

Kate Hawkins June 15, 2024
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TV Show Recaps

Boob(s on Your) Tube: ‘Pretty Little Liars’ and ‘The Chi’ Keep Getting Gayer, Sorry Shawn

‘The Chi”s lady gays are learning to take risks for love and developing surprising new interests, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School drops a boyfriend for a girlfriend, ‘All-American’ tries to pacify us with a hug and once again our heroine Kristen Kish is in fact sleeveless!

Natalie and Valerie Anne
June 14, 2024 6 Comments
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Music

This Tessa Thompson-Directed Music Video Oozes Sapphic Yearning

In Arooj Aftab’s music video for her song Raat Ki Rani, queer fantasy is more real than reality.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 14, 2024 8 Comments
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AF+

My Family’s Mad at Me For Refusing To Go on a Homophobic Vacation

Your sister-in-law is being blatantly homophobic — IN JUNE — and your family’s mad that you’re mad about it. Also, we settle a debate for the ages: blinds open or closed for TV time?

the team June 14, 2024 6 Comments
Summer Solstice: A close up of Marianne Rendón looking at Bobbi Salvör Menuez as they look down.
Movie Reviews

‘Summer Solstice’ Is a Relatable Trans Indie About Masc Insecurity and Nightmare Cis Girls

Summer Solstice is a film that dares to grant the quietest dramas of a trans person’s life the importance of the screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 14, 2024
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LGBT History LGBT Pride

6 Pre-Stonewall Queer Uprisings History Tried To Hide

I’m confident the archives are filled with hundreds, if not thousands, of stories still waiting to be uncovered.

Stef Rubino June 14, 2024 6 Comments
4 across / 6 letters / "The Renunciations" poet Kelly
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Admits It Didn’t Totally Get “Dune”

Zendaya looked pretty cool with glowing eyes though.

Darby Ratliff June 14, 2024
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LGBT Book Reviews

‘Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous’ Is a Perfect Sapphic Second-Chance Summer Romance

For fans of second-chance romance, friends to lovers, and ‘celebrity falls for regular person’ tropes.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 13, 2024 5 Comments
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First Person

I’ve Spent a Lot of Time Pretending Not To Know What I Want

“There I was, gay at a gay club, not wanting to be gay, with my best friend / drunken lover who identified as hetero despite her not-that-hetero choices.”

swan huntley June 13, 2024 9 Comments
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