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Gender Relationships

You Need Help: You Should Divorce Your Transphobic Wife

Your wife fell in love with you and built a life with you and you’re a woman. You didn’t become a woman. You didn’t trick her into being queer — her own feelings did that.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 13, 2024 11 Comments
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Queer Fashion Style

Your Guide to Divorcee-Core Style

The vibe we’re going for here is Angela Bassett lighting her ex husband’s belongings on fire in a driveway.

Christina Tucker February 12, 2024
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Breakups

I Banished My Ex Husband With Witchcraft, and You Can Too

A four-person friend group did what anyone who’s seen The Craft might. We got together to cast a spell to banish that man.

Nico February 12, 2024 11 Comments
Divorce Week in scroll lettering is on top of a red burning fire.
Breakups

Get in Losers, We’re Getting Divorced

Divorce Week is a celebration of taking a life-changing step, of coming out the other side of devastating trauma and being all the better for it.

Carmen Phillips and Nico
February 12, 2024 14 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Cynthia Erivo’s Queer, All Wicked News Is Queer News, PREPARE TO BE SICK OF ME

I’m here for you with a very queer, very personal deep dive analysis of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in the Wicked trailer. Plus: Jennifer Beals in a Super Bowl commercial, Abbott Elementary renewed for a fourth season, and more!

Valerie Anne February 12, 2024 8 Comments
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Queer Pregnancy

Queer Mom Chronicles: Blending Our Family

Even though I often refer to him as my son, my wife is just as much of a parent to him as I am, and he considers her his mom.

Sa'iyda Shabazz February 12, 2024 12 Comments
Health

If Your Neurodivergent Ass Hasn’t Rediscovered Plushies, This Is Your Sign To Start

Society: hard and cold. Plush toys: soft and warm.

Summer Tao February 12, 2024 4 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Totally a Spy

Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building?

Darby Ratliff February 12, 2024 1 Comment
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Friendship Love + Sex

I Unicorned for a Couple at a Quirky Rural Swingers Club

I wasn’t going to turn down the chance to explore a massive swinger lodge that’s been in operation since the 1970’s.

Nico February 11, 2024 7 Comments
the following queer memoirs: How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones, How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden, Burning Butch by R/B Mertz, High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, and Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
Quizzes

Quiz: What Queer Memoir Could Change Your Life?

The act of reading about the lived experiences of another person has the power to alter the course and contours of our own lives.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 11, 2024 5 Comments
Clone High season three: Cleopatra and Frida Kahlo makeout in class
TV Reviews

“Clone High” Season Three Is Worthy of Its Frida Kahlo/Cleopatra Lesbian Romance

Clone High’s third season is able to escape the confines of that dreaded “revival series curse.”

Rendy Jones February 10, 2024 1 Comment
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Would Sit on the Bisexual Sofa

Singing in the shower is fun until you get body wash in your mouth.

Kate Hawkins February 10, 2024 3 Comments
Drag race 1606: Plane Jane with poorly drawn unibrow and mustache flamenco dances with a partner
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1606 Recap: Come On, Barbie

Plane makes a crack about Morphine’s stomach which is rich coming from someone so desperate for curves she’s confused her breastplate for a personality. 

Drew Burnett Gregory February 9, 2024
Velma (Abby McEnany) clutches a kitten while examining information on her laptop, while her wife, Teddi (Robin Weigert), cuts vegetables nearby in the kitchen.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Abby McEnany and Robin Weigert Are a Lesbian Couple on Network TV???

Someone gave Abby McEnany and Robin Weigert the prime post-Super Bowl spot this Sunday, and you’re gonna fall in love immediately. Also updates on: Death and Other Details, La Brea, and Hightown!

Valerie Anne and Natalie
February 9, 2024 5 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 207 Recap: Parvati Shallow Has a Predatory Headband

That’s always a tension in these kinds of competition reality TV shows: do you want to sacrifice your integrity, and win, or maintain your integrity, and lose?

Anya Richkind February 9, 2024 1 Comment
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LGBT Book Reviews

Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women

At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman, and, especially, her body.

Stef Rubino February 9, 2024 2 Comments
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AF+

I’m a Stone Butch Top Who Can’t Bring Myself To Penetrate Anyone Else

“I’m struggling to get over the empathetic feelings of ‘Aaa! Vaginal penetration is painful and bad.'”

the team February 9, 2024 6 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Cecilia Gentili Showed What It Means To Care About Sex Workers, Immigrants, and Trans People

She saw organizing and her work within her communities not as something she had to do but as something she needed and wanted to do.

Stef Rubino February 9, 2024 5 Comments
“Good Trouble” Episode 516 Recap: Morty and Alice in blue light.
TV Show Recaps

This Week’s Episode of “Good Trouble” Was the Queerest of the Season

For all the shortcomings of Good Trouble, I’m hard pressed to recall a show — other than The L Word, Pose, and A League of Their Own — that integrated so many queer characters into its narrative.

Natalie February 9, 2024
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Literature

Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw, the tyranny of a mother’s vanity, how group chats rule the world and more!

Riese February 9, 2024 6 Comments
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