No Tinder, No Problem: The Ancient Art of Asking Someone on a Gay Date IRL
It might seem like everybody is swiping, but if that’s not your jam, here’s some tips on the age-old art of asking someone out IRL.
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Safe Sexting: Tech Tips for the Stress-Free Sexting You Deserve
The world is full of unknown and terrifying possibilities, like accidentally sending a nude to the family group chat because it was the most recent thing on your camera roll. Protect yourself and loved ones against these dangers and more with easy tips!
You Need Help: How Do I Get My Sexual Confidence Back?
You’re at your most vulnerable when you describe how afraid you are of never being desired by another again. Own that vulnerability, because really owning our soft parts is part of what confidence is.
10 Queers Get Honest About Ghosting
Communication is hard, especially when you have to tell someone something they might not want to hear, which is why sometimes we… just don’t do it!
How to Choose Dating App Photos That’ll Have Babes Swiping Hell Yes
You want to look like your best self: fun, hot, interesting, and lez be real, it doesn’t hurt if you look like you might actually send the first message.
You Need Help: Seeking Poly People and (Relationship) Anarchy in Small Town, U.S.A.
The first statement of the Relationship Anarchy Manifesto is that “Love is abundant,” so why don’t we start there? Love is abundant. What kind of love do you want to create in your life?
8 Cute Gay Dates Inspired by Lesbian Movies of 2018
You may not find all these movies romantic date material, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t something to work with there.
11 Queers Share the Best and Worst Lines They’ve Gotten on Dating Apps
“’Look a little crazy huh’ with no punctuation.”
How to Talk to Your Hot Gay Crush About Astrology When You Don’t Believe In It
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you’re dating in any way, shape or form right now, the topic is going to come up and people you probably want to have sex with are going to care about where the planets were on the day you were born.
95% of Lesbians Keep Their Fingernails Short, All Hands On Deck
According to our Lesbian Stereotypes Survey, y’all have overwhelmingly short nails and also a lot of you play the piano?
Yes, Virginia, Queer Women Can Casually Date: Here’s How It Works
If this is a thing you want, you can do it in 2019! This is our year! I believe in you / us / our ability to not get married on the third date.
Feelings, Rendered Material
I claimed to be a kid who “just loved birthdays,” when what I really loved was a socially sanctioned reason to shower my crushes with affection.
10 Queers on How They Figure Out if It’s a Date
She just said, plainly, “We are going to sleep together tonight.” And I said, “Oh, okay!”
Ex Confessions: A Real-World Guide to Sleeping With Your Ex
This is probably not a good idea. BUT! The body wants what it wants and it’s okay for us to make mistakes sometimes and gosh darnit, if we’re going to do this thing we might as well do it as consciously as we can.
Call It Off: A Very Subjective Primer on Breaking Up with Someone You’re Casually Dating
How are you supposed to end things with somebody you’re seeing casually or have more of, idk, “a thing” with? Well, no one really has that figured out, but here are some ideas for how to break things off with the person you’re seeing casually based on the nature and length of your relationship.
A Heart Emoji by Any Other Name: A Brief Investigation of Flirty Emoji
Long ago, when trying to flirt with another girl looked kind of like a Sarah Waters novel but without the ghosts and tragedy, we communicated interest through loaded symbols, like giving violets to crushes. Today, we have emoji instead.
December 2018 Queer Horoscopes: Time to Hold All This and Still Face the Future
As this epic year winds to a close, take some time this month to have all the feelings — and prepare for a dreamier, queerer future.
Ready For Your Close-Up: The Beginner’s Guide to Taking a Sexy Solo Video
You’re hot, you know it, and you want someone else to know it too. Be it a partner, a crush, the internet at large, yourself — you name it, you can record yourself and make that happen. But where do you start? What do you want to showcase? What does a sexy video even MEAN, you know?
How to Make Long Distance Dating Sexy and Keep Things H.O.T. in Your L.D.R.
It is hard to feel so far from the people you care about. This shit is not easy. But! We choose these relationships anyway, for our varied reasons, and gosh darnit we are gonna have some sexy fun while we’re here!
An Investigation of Gay Situationships, a Time-Honored and Life-Ruining Tradition
A gay situationship is an interpersonal scenario involving strong feelings that are opaque, ill-communicated or unclear to the people involved in them and could be meaningfully clarified by a “what are we” conversation. Usually, you can identify them by the fact that the people involved would rather do literally anything than have a “what are we” conversation.