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How to Handle Being Newly Single at the Holidays

If you’re on team single for the season and not sure how to be okay, read on, make a game plan, and know that the warm fuzzy happy holiday feelings are there for you if you want them. 

By Reneice Charles|December 20, 2018|9 Comments
Television

10 Hallmark Christmas Movies That Are Actually Just Gay Fan Fiction

Oh come, all ye faithful.

By Heather Hogan|December 17, 2018|22 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: What Do You Get the Sex Enthusiast Who Has Everything?

So, what do you get the person that already seems to own everything? Something weird, my pals!

By Archie|December 14, 2018|6 Comments
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12 Holiday Beers, Ranked by How Much They Taste Like Christmas

“Ho ho ho, no! This beer tastes like a literal snickerdoodle.”

By Heather Hogan|December 13, 2018|11 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Picking the Perfect Lingerie for the Babe in Your Life

Let’s be real: shopping for other people is already daunting. Shopping for lingerie and underthings? Holy eff. Here are some of the essentials to know when it comes to lingerie gift giving.

By Jeanna|December 13, 2018|10 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holiday Gift Guide: Upgrade Everything in Bed with These Sexy Classics

These eight picks have everything you love in your favorite standbys, with upgrades and perks to make them the luxury you or a loved one deserve this holiday season. You’ve been very good this year; treat yourself!

By Rachel|December 12, 2018|3 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: Fancy Wedding Gifts, but for Your Single Friend for the Holidays Instead

How unfair is it that everyone who gets married and has a wedding shower gets a lot of nice fancy home goods (including a KitchenAid!!!) and I, a boss bitch forever single kitchen witch Capricorn femme queen, do not??

By Vanessa|December 11, 2018|47 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Proof We Have the Perfect Merch for Every Kind of Gay

There’s something about closing out another long, hard year by being your very best gay self.

By the team|December 10, 2018|2 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: For the Overworked & Underpaid

Long days and even longer nights just trying to make ends meet? We can’t change everything but taking care of the mind, body and soul (very original) can hopefully make it a little easier. Check out these gifts to do just that!

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Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians

The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!

By KaeLyn|December 6, 2018|14 Comments
Television

16 Gay Holiday TV Episodes You Can Stream Right Now!

13 Christmas and three Thanksgiving episodes full of lesbians in matching two-piece pajamas, bisexuals in endearing sweaters, and a trans woman dressed up as a literal Holigay Angel.

By Carmen Phillips|December 5, 2018|11 Comments
Fashion/Style Food and Drink

Merry Butchmas: Cozy Holiday Cocktails and the Hot Butch Looks to Sip Them In

Are you wearing a festive yet alluring butch outfit while reclining in front of a fireplace with a delicious wintertime cocktail? Hm. Well, we can help fix that.

By Mika|December 4, 2018|33 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Kinky Gay Gifts for Your Naughty List

Let’s just cut the crap and say it: We’re Horny for the Holigays.

By Archie|December 4, 2018|9 Comments
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15 Sad Christmas Songs, Ranked on a Scale of 1 to 5 Crying Therese Belivets

Holly jolly, Dearest.

By Heather Hogan|December 3, 2018|69 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Mommi and Me

When in doubt: MONOGRAM.

By Kayla|November 30, 2018|13 Comments
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Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonal Butch Accessories For Staying Warm, Looking Hot

Some of you might be here because the weather changed and you need warm things, some of you are like me and can’t wait to buy shit for every season, and some of you just want to look cute and don’t know where to start.

By Mika|November 29, 2018|12 Comments
DIY / Crafting / Food / Home

Be a Holigay Potion Master with These Three DIY Bottled Gifts

This series may not be Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger, but it’s the closest things we muggles can get. All you need is a stove, a few fancy ingredients, and some time to whip of an apothecary full of gifts.

By Laura|November 29, 2018|7 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Holigay Gift Guide: Let’s Scissor Under the Mistletoe

Scissoring: the greatest sex act in the world? Who would be foolish enough to make that claim? Me, and this gift guide!

By Archie|November 29, 2018|2 Comments
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