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Brittney Griner reacts with a smile as her jersey is retired at Baylor University. Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)
Sports

Brittney Griner’s Jersey Retired at Baylor in an Overdue Homecoming Fitting of Her Greatness

Every outtake from the weekend, every interview, showcased Griner’s eyes shining brightly. The joy were palpable. It felt like an amends was made: the place that Griner had once loved, the place that she had found love, would finally feel like home again.

Natalie February 20, 2024 3 Comments
a woman holds a mirror to her head displaying wildflowers
First Person

Uncertainty and Disquiet: My Non-Consensual Childhood Circumcision as a Trans Woman

At the time, I didn’t know that I was experiencing a contentious procedure that would leave me physically scarred and emotionally wounded. I did it because I was told I should. Decades later, I learned about assent in a postgraduate research course.

Summer Tao February 20, 2024 9 Comments
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Dating

You Need Help: I Want To Ask My Couple Friends Out but Don’t Know if They’re Poly

“I have a crush on a lesbian couple I know, and I want to test the waters to see if they might be interested in dating, but I don’t want to make it weird if they’re monogamous.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 20, 2024 3 Comments
How to Fail as a Popstar: Vivek Shraya sits at a table with Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves and Nadine Bhabha as they watch a musician perform.
TV Reviews

Vivek Shraya’s “How to Fail as a Popstar” Makes Failure Look Good

How to Fail as a Popstar embraces the limitations of its length and budget. Vivek Shraya and director Vanessa Matsui have crafted a work bursting with queer creativity, a story of artistic reality alive with artistic possibility.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 20, 2024
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Breakups Movie Lists

25 Movies Just Perfect for Crying Through Your Divorce

Even if you’re not going through a divorce right now, here are some very pretty movies to look back at you while you blow snot bubbles into your t-shirt (no one is watching, it’s fine).

Carmen Phillips February 19, 2024 10 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Had a Great Time Terrifying Conservatives With Her Gay-Ass Photo Shoot

I have the scoop on five different sapphic films coming out for you to know about, including: one with a lesbian-lovers-to-crime-partners plot line, Zach Braff working out his biphobia to the terrible tune of Chasing Amy, and conservatives are in tizzy of Kristen Stewart’s Rolling Stone cover.

Valerie Anne February 19, 2024 6 Comments
A butch person is studying lesbian divorce data very seriously, the colors are tan and brick red.
Breakups

Rumors of Our Lesbian Divorce Rates Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (But They’re Still Pretty True)

You may have heard that lesbian divorce rates are exceptionally high, and perhaps you may have found yourself wondering — are they really?

Riese February 19, 2024 6 Comments
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First Person

I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One

“I’m an easy host, a rake, a card, I’m bejeweled, I have a gay face. I want to love and be loved. If reaching is a kind of being, it’s a reaching toward.”

Temim Fruchter February 19, 2024 2 Comments
The Lion King 1 ½: Timon and Pumbaa sit next two each other in a hot spring.
Movie Features

Twenty Years Later, “The Lion King 1 ½” Is Still the Gayest Disney Movie

The Lion King 1 ½ is a reminder that sometimes subtext is better — especially when it’s this texty.

Rendy Jones February 19, 2024 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is a Pink Lady

I failed my driving test after taking an abbreviated driver’s ed class.

Emet Ozar February 19, 2024
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Breakups

Tiny Butch Shoes, Lightly Worn

A good pair of boots are LIFE okay??? Is that a gay opinion? Likely.

Nico February 18, 2024 9 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Sad Song With a Dog Motif Are You?

Do you ever feel pathetic and disgusting in your unending loyalty? Do you feel an incessant need to be praised? Do you lash out in fearful aggression when backed into a corner? Then the dog motif may be for you!

Gabrielle Grace Hogan February 18, 2024 10 Comments
An image of Cay kissing Vivian's chin from the Desert Hearts sex scene against a pink backdrop with green cactus drawings
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Desert Hearts” Celebrates Lesbian Patience and Persistence

Sex isn’t the only way to encourage people to be themselves. But, hey, it sure can be convincing.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 17, 2024 7 Comments
An illustration of a Black woman with an afro who is looking in both directions, in the colors of rose and brick red.
Breakups First Person

I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming

Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.

Ahuv Ne'eman February 17, 2024 5 Comments
A friendship group sits together for some casual beers, the main character complains that they can't tell if they are getting too old to understand queer culture, or if they are just too isolated.
Webcomics

Reine #57: Cool Girl Winter

“I can’t tell if I’m just too old or too isolated.”

Ren Strapp February 17, 2024 2 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Dreamed You Were a Poem

A duck walks into a bar and buys everyone a round.

Rebecca Goldstein February 17, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1607 Recap: The Hills Have Eyes

Ru makes a little “climb every mountain” reference in her teaser video causing Plasma to do-re-meltdown.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 16, 2024 4 Comments
Stef and Lena (L to R) listen to Callie explain why she lied to the Hunters about an engagement party.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: The Mamas Are in Town for Dinner on “Good Trouble”!

Stef and Lena all these years later, never change. Also updates on: Hightown, Death and Other Details, the season three finale of Raising Kanan, and the series finale of La Brea.

Valerie Anne, Natalie and Carmen Phillips
February 16, 2024 1 Comment
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Music

Karol G’s “Contigo” Aches With the Longing of a Thousand Sapphic Suns

If you watched two Latinas fall in love with promises of not wanting to live life without the other, against one of the most infectious beats of the year, and all you could think about was if it counted as “queer-baiting”… you maybe missed the point?

Carmen Phillips February 16, 2024 9 Comments
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AF+ Parenting & Family

I’m In My Thirties and Can’t Make Up My Mind About Having Kids

I’ve been thinking about it almost every day lately.

the team February 16, 2024 14 Comments
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