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AF+

I’m Masculine, I Strap, I Love Being Called “Sir”… Am I Trans or a Masc Lesbian?

In this week’s AF+ Advice box: trying to figure out if you’re trans or a masculine lesbian, finding good lesbian love poems for a wedding, complicated feelings about an ex and group chat drama.

the team March 1, 2024 12 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 210 Recap: Phaedra Parks Is Exhausted

This is the most emotional episode of The Traitors yet.

Anya Richkind March 1, 2024 1 Comment
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for March 2024

Pisces season may cause you to feel like someone waking up in a panic and tripping over their slippers. Best practices? Stay in bed a little longer.

Corina Dross March 1, 2024 2 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

What’s New and Gay To Stream in March 2024

We’ve got season three of Girls5Eva, a new Liane Moriarty limited series with a lesbian main character, the return of Shondaland, a comedy special stuffed with your favorite queer and trans comics and actually quite a bit more!

Riese March 1, 2024 7 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Does Revenge

I asked my date to meet me at the gym but she never showed up.

Darby Ratliff March 1, 2024
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TV Show Recaps

“Couple to Throuple” Never Understood Polyamory

How did a show about the ability to share connections with anyone in the world become about locking someone down??

Gabe Dunn February 29, 2024 3 Comments
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Television

Shakina Nayfack and “Quantum Leap” Put the Audience Inside a Trans Experience

“This is Quantum Leap, putting the audience right in the shoes of a protagonist that they didn’t know that they could have empathy with to walk through their life.”

Natalie February 29, 2024
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Lesbian Sex

How To Handle Traumatic Resurgence During Sex

Trauma has a way of resurfacing in vulnerable moments. It can happen even if there’s no relationship between that trauma and sex.

Summer Tao February 29, 2024 7 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Where Is the Outrage About Palestinian Survivors of Sexual Violence?

Sexual violence towards Palestinians is rampant, systemic, and underreported, and what makes it particularly appalling is how little attention it receives and the skepticism with which it is treated abroad.

Bobuq Sayed February 29, 2024 52 Comments
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Movie Features

“Anyone but You” Was a Hetero Hit — Why Does It Take Place at a Lesbian Wedding?

The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Lisa Laman February 29, 2024 4 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp Was Low-Key in Love With Her Best Friend and Co-Star, Wrote “I Do” About Her

Reneé Rapp is the “out and proud Voice of Gen Z” in a Hollywood Reporter cover story, Lydia Tár was a medicore conductor, Hollyoaks set to explore teen gender identity, Tubi’s changing its whole deal and more!

Riese February 28, 2024 3 Comments
Comedy The L Word

Glasgow’s “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” Is Not the First Time a Willy Wonka Party Was a Disaster

Jenny Schecter was the original planner of ill-conceived Willy Wonka-themed events.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 28, 2024 3 Comments
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Visual Art

Queer and Appalachian: Creating Art Out of Loneliness

Throughout the decade of making this photography book, I have learned new senses of belonging.

Julie Rae Powers February 28, 2024 4 Comments
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Health

A Really F*cking Honest Breakdown of My Nighttime Routine

My real, true nighttime routine as a queer person in night school with various medical and mental health issues.

Em Win February 28, 2024 8 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Ali Krieger is READY for the NWSL Season Kickoff

Also, welcome to No Filter Zoe Lister-Jones!!!

Christina Tucker February 28, 2024 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds

If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.

Sa'iyda Shabazz February 28, 2024
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Even Gayer

This morning, Siri said, “Don’t call me Shirley.”

Emet Ozar February 28, 2024
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Gender

Here’s to Another Year of Legally Being a Man

This year marks my fourth year of being a feminine catastrophe. Except my paperwork still claims that I’m some f*cking guy.

Summer Tao February 27, 2024 6 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Comedy

Ayo Edebiri Respecting the Rules of Time Travel is So Me Coded For Real

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 27, 2024 5 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: How Do I Date With Devastatingly Low Self-Esteem?

Approach cultivating a friendship with yourself as you would with other people.

Em Win February 27, 2024 4 Comments
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