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Queer Mom Chronicles: I Have Mixed Feelings About Homework

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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Lesbian Sex

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A nudes protocol (or whatever you wanna call it) is a personalized framework of rules about how your digital sexual data should be handled.

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Movie Features

The Problem Isn’t Lily Gladstone’s Oscar Loss — It’s What Comes Next

Lily Gladstone’s Oscar loss tells a story about where the industry is at in its judgments of art and its desire for inclusion. But it doesn’t have to be the only story told.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 11, 2024 4 Comments
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Puzzles

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Kate Hawkins March 11, 2024 2 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

All the Best and Gayest Fashion of the 2024 Oscars

I’m not sure how you like to enjoy Oscars night! But I like to order in take out while wearing Pjs and eat a pint of ice cream. The other part of my tradition is to check out what all the gays are wearing and pop off lil jokes!

Carmen Phillips March 10, 2024 1 Comment
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Shondaland Gay Is Your Ever-Loving Soulmate?

It has been 10 months since we saw two queers smash their faces together lovingly and hornily on a Shondaland show. But this Thursday the long winter of our discontent is over! Shondaland is back, baby! And to mark the occasion, I made us a quiz.

Carmen Phillips March 10, 2024 11 Comments
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Movie Features

Todd Haynes’ Cinema of Sight

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TV Lists

Top 15 Queer TV Characters Named Alex

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TV Show Recaps

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Drew Burnett Gregory March 8, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

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Movie Features

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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 211 Recap: Finale Ends With a Fizzle

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AF+

Did My Partner Trick Me Into a Lifetime of Sexless Monogamy?

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the team March 8, 2024 3 Comments
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Movie Features

‘American Fiction’ Was Never About Its Satire

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