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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
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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
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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
Drag Race 1607: Out of drag, Plasma smiles looking up and Morphine smirks looking at Plasma
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
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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
TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 208 Recap: Parvati Shallow, Duchess of Deception

Parvati and Phaedra both voted for each other, which feels tragic and inevitable.

Anya Richkind February 16, 2024 2 Comments
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Breakups

Reactions People Have Had To Finding Out I’m Divorced, Ranked

YOU were MARRIED?

Stef Rubino February 16, 2024 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Style

Would Robot Zendaya Love Me If I Was a (Sand) Worm?

“Dune: Part 1” was not a very queer movie, nor do I anticipate “Dune: Part 2” being so. But the books were one of this queer’s childhood favorites.

Nico February 16, 2024 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Takes the Plunge

Why is She-Hulk so good at gardening?

Kate Hawkins February 16, 2024 1 Comment
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Music

Brittany Howard’s Sophomore Solo Album “What Now” Is a Risky Triumph

From a fuming response to a relationship gone bad to a sexy, queer club banger, Brittany Howard’s “What Now” is an eclectic must-listen.

Stef Rubino February 15, 2024 8 Comments
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Breakups

So, Why Did You Break off Your Engaygement?

“My ex fiancé slept with her best friend (who was going to be the best man at our wedding).” 39 queer people on why they broke off their engagement.

Carmen Phillips February 15, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Bless the “Couple to Throuple” Gods — A Hot Nonbinary Couple Has Arrived

My heart is racing. I am opening Feeld as I type this. SZA was right.

Gabe Dunn February 15, 2024 7 Comments
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