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How My Motherhood Made My Mother Accept My Lesbianism
She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.
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Holigay 2013 Gift Guide: The Busiest Power Dyke You Know
What do you get someone who doesn’t have time to use a gift?
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These Adorable Lesbian Homecoming Queens Top Off Our Best Queer Homecoming Season Ever
Greta Melendez and Lily Cohen are the latest in a month of queer homecoming winners and a much longer line of kids battling for the right to wear tiaras in public while gay.
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Shake, Don’t Wipe!
“Sometimes, when you’re in the business of parenting, you have to phone a friend for a bit of perspective and advice. Sometimes, you have to phone more than one.”
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Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer
Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.
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New Year’s OPEN THREAD 2014: Braver / Bolder Edition
Here’s how we’re gonna be brave and bold in the new year. What about you?
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Queer Girl City Guide: Burlington, VT
It’s a difficult task to find a place that isn’t gay-friendly. It’s Vermont, you guys. You want to know where the gaybourhood is? Burlington is the gaybourhood.
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Lillian’s College Lesbianage: Out Of The Vassar Bubble And Into China
I now realize that Chinese is, for lack of a better metaphor, like a crazy ex-girlfriend. She seemed nice and inviting at first but then I realized she’s hard to deal with.
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Girl-on-World: Argentina
Buenos Aires’ dark streets glistened with youth and possibility, and most of our nights revolved around an easy camaraderie between travelers.
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Queer Girl City Guide: São Paulo, Brazil
You’ll grow to love the glow of the city when it’s sunny outside and also its poetic gloom on rainy days; you’ll learn that the outdoor tables, no matter how gritty, are the most privileged spots at bars and restaurants; you’ll be surprised with how culturally diverse this city is; and you’ll become addicted to the unstoppable activities day and night.
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Nita’s College Lesbianage: Nothing Special
“I’m Nita, and I don’t know what I’m doing with my life”
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It’s Not Okay: Intimate Partner Violence in Radical Queer Spaces
“She acts like she’s such a victim when obviously there was abuse on both sides.” Awkwardly, I shrug my shoulders and look around the room. My partner doesn’t notice how uncomfortable she’s making me because she’s caught up in her own conjectures: “It’s like how we are sometimes.”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Nashville, Tennessee
The South is notoriously friendly. It is also notoriously bigoted. In 2006, the year I moved to Nashville, an anti-marriage equality proposition passed. It felt like a slap in the face and a sign to leave. Six years later, I couldn’t be more happy that I stayed.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Toronto, Canada
“Put in the effort, put yourself out there and you will be rewarded with a really, really good time!”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.
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On Being Gay at One of America’s Most Anti-Gay Schools
A former student’s tale of coming-out as gay at Liberty University raises interesting questions about the place of LGBT people in conservative, evangelical Christianity.
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Girl-on-World: Aloha Spirit Fingers In The Hawaiian Sky
My girlfriend took me on her work trip to Oahu, where I ate and beached and learned and museumed and only suffered one major physical injury!
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Make A Thing: So Many Handmade Valentines!
Handmade Valentine’s Day Cards to replace anything you were thinking of buying from a grocery store.
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Queer Girl City Guide: London, Baby!
London can be brutal when the rent is due, but also incredibly exciting, creative, glittery and beautiful any day of the week.
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Queer Girl City Guide: St. Petersburg, Russia
“Though it’s got its share of pros and cons, the memories you make in this gorgeous city will stick with you forever.”