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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Lesbians With Sleep Disorders, Listen Up! Kehlani Is Making a Lullaby Album

Kehlani is joining Jhené Aiko’s project that seeks to make cool baby music 🥺

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 21, 2024 3 Comments
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Movie Reviews

After Watching J.Lo’s “This Is Me…Now” I’m No Longer Sure Who Is Me…Now

Kim Petras, Keke Palmer, Jane Fonda, and more celebs play astrological signs in this impossible to recap film project.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 21, 2024 8 Comments
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AF+ Lesbian Sex

Anonymous Sex Diary: A Couple Rekindles Their Sex Life with “Intimacy Boot Camp”

We’re both trying to avoid the lesbian bed death trope, hoping to be remembered in history as lovers, not “really good friends.”

Guest February 21, 2024 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Happy Aquarius Season to Megan Thee Stallion!

For the astrology heads — Megan Thee Stallion is an Aquarius Sun, Taurus rising, Leo Moon. Stunning big three, imo!

Christina Tucker February 21, 2024
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Food and Drink

Uncommon Pairings: Age Your Wine!

Technically, you can age any wine, but some survive the process better than others!

ashni February 21, 2024
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Perhaps a Little Too Curious

Did you hear about the red and blue ships that collided?

Darby Ratliff February 21, 2024
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Breakups

Salons and Divorce Doulas: How Queers Are Fighting the Trauma and Stigma of Divorce

“I’ve been ostracized, people don’t even know my side of the story. And they just stopped talking to me because they’ve talked to my ex.”

Carmen Phillips and Nico
February 20, 2024 10 Comments
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AF+

Editor’s Notes: Divorce Week

Being engaged, planning a wedding, being a newlywed — all welcome topics of conversation! Divorce? Not so much! 

Carmen Phillips and Nico
February 20, 2024 11 Comments
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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