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Dating First Person

Untethered: Visiting Other Peoples’ Families and Unhinged Horse Lesbians

She grabbed my hand and smashed a tomato with her homemade caesar dressing into my palm.

Nico May 16, 2024 4 Comments
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Quizzes

If You Can Identify 50% Of These Recent LGBTQ+ TV Shows From One Image, You Must Have a Really Comfortable Couch

Okay, if you are an LGBTQ+ TV expert, you’ll do really good at this. If you’re not, we would still like to see you try!

Riese May 16, 2024 14 Comments
A collage of gay WNBA players
Sports

Where To Follow 2024’s Gay WNBA Players On Instagram

After hours of research, here is every out gay WNBA player that I could find, and the hottest picture of them available on their Instagram… for reasons. We’re all grown here. Enjoy.

Carmen Phillips May 16, 2024 31 Comments
sports illustrated swimsuit edition cover
Pop Culture Fix

Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe Were Simply Delighted To Shoot The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Together

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird had a great time being in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Also: Midori Francis is leaving Grey’s Anatomy, Olivia Cooke doesn’t like being known for the Negroni Spagliato, and Sarah Paulson explains her unconventional living arrangement with Holland Taylor.

Riese May 15, 2024 1 Comment
Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the Wicked trailer
TV News & Trailers

‘Wicked’ Trailer Portrays Classic Queer Experience (Wearing a Weird Hat and Then Everyone Laughs at You)

Making an accessory your personality? That’s queer culture and couture.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 15, 2024 4 Comments
Love the World or Get Killed Trying: the cover of the novel with Alvina Chamberland nude resting on shimmery ice.
LGBT Book Reviews

‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness

The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 15, 2024
rope floats in front of a red and blue background image of a femme person in bed between two men
AF+

A Queer Nonbinary Student Leans Into Their “Bi Era” with Kink, Play Parties, Domming, Top4Topping and Pegging

“In the outside world, I dress masc, and skirts feel foreign. But at play parties, I’ve started wearing a tiny top/skirt combo, trusting that for those few hours, my gender will be read as nothing more than “slut.”

Guest May 15, 2024 1 Comment
Toward Bird and Reneé Rapp at an NWSL game
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Reneé Rapp and Towa Bird Are Certified NWSL Gays

Plus, Zoe Lister-Jones serving an iconically queer look and more gay celeb IG updates.

Christina Tucker May 15, 2024 1 Comment
9 across / 4 letters / Like some exams or sex
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Blown Away

Irate! Angry! Ticked off!

Darby Ratliff May 15, 2024 3 Comments
A collage of WNBA Players
Sports

WNBA 101: Everything You Need to Know for Your Hot Sports Summer

I’m going to hand hold you step-by-step through everything you could possibly need to know about the WNBA. From “the Caitlin Clark effect” to the rules of the game, where to buy fire merch, and what to yell to impress a date when you have no idea what’s going on. Get ready for the best summer of your life.

Carmen Phillips May 14, 2024 14 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Actor Maria Bello and Chef Dominique Crenn Got Married and Their Playlist Was Perfection

Actress Maria Bello, 57, and acclaimed French chef Dominique Crenn, 59, tied the knot on Sunday at a very fancy resort in Mexico in a ceremony attended by Mariska Hargitay, Dominique’s ex-wife’s Mom, Gavin Rossdale of Bush and so many more!

Riese May 14, 2024 2 Comments
Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams in If These Walls Could Talk 2
Movie Reviews

From Birth, to a Crush, to Death, ‘If These Walls Could Talk 2’ Covers All Stages of Lesbian Life

Who could ever forget the first time they saw Chloë Sevigny’s butch Amy in If These Walls Could Talk 2?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 14, 2024 4 Comments
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Lesbian Sex

I Immediately Feel Shame, Sadness After Masturbating

It’s 2024, am I the only one left on the planet who feels enormous shame after self-pleasure?

Em Win May 14, 2024 3 Comments
Sara Ramirez at the ACT UP NY protest of the GLAAD Media Awards
Politics + Activism

ACT UP NY Calls on GLAAD To Oppose Genocide, Drop the ADL

On May 11, GLAAD hosted its annual awards ceremony, celebrating queer and trans media and celebrities. But outside the doors of the venue was where the real queer activism took place, an action organized by ACT UP NY taking shape.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 13, 2024 11 Comments
The cast of BBC's 'I Kissed a Girl' (a variety of sapphics in different races, ages, gender presentations, and body sizes)
Pop Culture Fix

‘I Kissed a Girl’ has Lover Girls and Fire Breathers, Buckle Up Britain

Meet the cast of BBC’s queer reality dating show “I Kissed a Girl,” The Legend of Vox Machina season three news, a batch of TV renewals, Ayo Edebiri’s The Bear returns on June 27th, a documentary about Cyndi Lauper, and more!

Valerie Anne May 13, 2024 7 Comments
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AF+

Is It Creepy That I’m So Much Older Than My Entire Queer Friend Group?

Advice for a 49-year-old who’s anxious that she may not be wanted in spaces and social circles where most people are younger than her.

the team May 13, 2024 3 Comments
Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
LGBT Book Reviews

‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive

Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 13, 2024 2 Comments
feature image photo of @/whatsuplavren
Culture

What Is a Girlypop Masc?

The term has gained momentum and popularity among masculine-presenting lesbians who feel seen by the term’s allowance for masculinity and femininity to coexist in their identity.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan May 13, 2024 12 Comments
a gay group chat
Comedy

Every Gay Group Chat Has These Archetypes

The Instigaytor: The person who’s not just spilling tea but brewing it in the first place.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 13, 2024 9 Comments
2 down / 6 letters / "Abbot Elementary" writer and star Brunson
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Still Uses the Laughing/Crying Emoji

Mini Crossword will not be shamed for continuing to text like a millennial.

Kate Hawkins May 13, 2024
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