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book lists

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Queer books good enough to eat.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

4 Hours

QUIZZES

Quiz: Which Lesbian Marine Animal Are You?

Can you speak the language of the manatees?

Riese

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Apr 26, 2026

XO, Kitty. (L to R) Gia Kim as Yuri Han, Anna Cathcart as Kitty Song Covey in episode 305 of XO, Kitty.

TV REVIEWS

‘XO, Kitty’ Season 3 Treats Its Queer Love Letter Like a Fever Dream

“In any circumstance, this treatment of a queer couple would be bothersome, but when juxtaposed…

Natalie

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Apr 23, 2026

BOOK LISTS

Read These Books To Better Understand the Origins of Trans Exclusionary Sports Policies

One of our most important tools in fighting against systemic oppression is understanding why we’re…

Stef Rubino

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Apr 22, 2026

quizzes

Quiz: Which Lesbian Marine Animal Are You?

Can you speak the language of the manatees?

Riese

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Apr 26, 2026

tv reviews

‘XO, Kitty’ Season 3 Treats Its Queer Love Letter Like a Fever Dream

“In any circumstance, this treatment of a queer couple would be bothersome, but when juxtaposed with this universe’s own lore, it’s dispiriting.”

Natalie

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Apr 23, 2026

book lists

Read These Books To Better Understand the Origins of Trans Exclusionary Sports Policies

One of our most important tools in fighting against systemic oppression is understanding why we’re here, how we got here, and what we can do about it.

Stef Rubino

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Apr 22, 2026

The Latest

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Literature

4 Hours

Quiz: Which Lesbian Marine Animal Are You?

Games

Apr 26, 2026

I Want To Age Like Deborah Vance

Television

Apr 24, 2026

Is This an Overdramatic Reaction To My Girlfriend Leaving Me

Af+

Apr 24, 2026

I Feel Bad for Not Being Bisexual ‘Enough’

Identity

Apr 23, 2026

In a three panel comic colored in pastel tones, the first panel reads: "I'm Your Dad Now by Rea Strapp." in the second panel two friends ask each other if any gay really has a good relationship with their fathers, in the third panel one of the friends says that they in fact do have a good relationship with their father — which means that, "Now I your Dad"

webcomics

Reine #21: I’m Your Dad Now

Lesbians make the best father figures.

Ren Strapp

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May 15, 2021

Screenshot from Legacies: Bisexual witch Josie smiles as she goes in to kiss her queer werewolf gal pal as sparks literally fly behind them.

tv show recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: When We Say Sparks Are Flying on “Legacies,” They Are LITERALLY Flying

Plus updates on New Amsterdam, Charmed, Nancy Drew, and Top Chef. Also “Gen Q: Season 2″… this summer perhaps?

The TV Team

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May 14, 2021

Mythic Quest queer gamers: Dana and Rachel sit on a couch with gamer headphones on smiling at each other.

tv reviews

Mythic Quest’s Queer Season 2 Storyline Gets Gamer Girl High Score

The Mythic Quest queer storyline features Ashly Burch as game tester Rachel who has a big lesbian crush on her co-tester, Imani Hakim’s Dana.

Valerie Anne

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May 14, 2021

Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Summer (Busy Philipps), and Gloria (Paula Pell) in Girls5Eva gay

tv reviews

Okay Tina Fey’s “Girls5Eva” Really Is Super Great and Super Gay

Girls5Eva is honestly hilarious — and it’s a lot easier to feel like you’re in on the gay jokes when you’re actually represented on-screen.

Heather Hogan

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May 14, 2021

A composite of four photos of models wearing some really solid mommi-inspired shorts.

queer fashion

So You Want to Wear Shorts This Summer

We covered the return of the 90s and the 70s in our last edition, and you can expect to see that trend continuing here! The 90s influence is especially strong…

Christina Tucker

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May 14, 2021

the featured image for the story; our narrator in the love circle. Her hand is on the butch base's knee and she's got one eye open to look at them.

poetry and fiction

Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp

Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short…

Nat Mesnard

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May 14, 2021

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Really Into the Void

“The last quiz revealed I am Anne Lister’s boots. Now my gender is ‘a tiny piece of arugula stuck between Tilda Swinton’s teeth.’ I can see where this is coming…

Darcy

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May 14, 2021

Alison Bechdel is against a white background in a black t shirt and black glasses. Next to her is a cut out of a television set with the cover of "Dykes to Watch Out For" photoshopped inside of it

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Alison Bechdel Is Working on a “Dykes to Watch Out For” Animated TV Series!

Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK…

Carmen Phillips

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May 13, 2021