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Everybody F*cking Hates Tinder And We Are All Going To Die Alone

I can’t say any of us were thrilled to sign up, but we knew what we had to do: we had to sign up for a dating app and prepare to meet a lot of ladies… for science.

By Stef| March 5, 2014 | 77 Comments
Books

Zine Crush: I Love You Queerly

I Love You Queerly is a collaborative zine being sold for charity that celebrates queer expressions of love! It’s by queers, for queers, and for a good cause.

By Monique| February 19, 2014 | 12 Comments
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Dear Queer Diary: Date a Girl Who Journals

As you browse through the weighty stack of applications submitted by the many humans hoping to romance you, remember: journaling is hot.

By Maggie| February 13, 2014 | 4 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Team Pick: These Lesbian E-Cards for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day e-cards that are as lesbian as you are.

By Laneia| February 7, 2014 | 11 Comments
Sex + Relationships

8 Great Long-Distance Dates for A Really Gay Valentine’s Day

Even if we can’t spring for round-trip tickets for two to a shared favorite destination or get enough time off work to visit for a long weekend, we can make it an adorable night.

By Carmen| February 6, 2014 | 42 Comments
Music

Mixcard: Combining Postcards and Playlists for a Musical Love Explosion

A personalized playlist postcard is the perfect (alliterative!) Valentine’s Day gift for the queer who has everything!

By Maggie| February 5, 2014 | 4 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Top 10 Special Weirdo Things I’ve Done Since My Very First Break Up

“Sat in my car listening to a police scanner app for an hour for no particular reason “

By Lauren| February 4, 2014 | 80 Comments
Sex + Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: Don’t Suck When She’s Sick

Through sickness and in health, not just a meaningless vow. Ten easy ways to nurture your girl through illness for the nurturing impaired, plus cute animal pictures!

By RobynC| January 30, 2014 | 25 Comments
Sex + Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: To Shack Up or Not To Shack Up?

Entering into the world of monogamy and dare I say, cohabitation is a terrifying new frontier and it’s arguably much safer to stay put in the safe confines of twin beds and roomies.

By RobynC| January 16, 2014 | 17 Comments
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Elisha Lim’s “Favourite Dating Tales” Has Relatable, Heartbreaking Stories and Breathtaking Art

Elisha Lim’s zine “Favourite Dating Tales” features not only illustrations, comics and pictures that convey just about every part of the dating experience, but also has some of the most beautiful looking art I’ve ever seen.

By Mey| January 8, 2014 | 6 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Body as a Second Language: Navigating Queer Girl Culture on the Autism Spectrum

“For me, reading and speaking body language is like communicating in any foreign language — I concentrate hard, stumble, and make embarrassing errors. Turns out other queer autistic people have this problem too.”

By Emily| January 2, 2014 | 82 Comments
Sex + Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For 10 Years: She’s So High Above Me

On some level, we have all felt unworthy of something or someone at some point. Starting from the moment we step foot into any social structure or begin consuming Western media, we connect what or who we are able to achieve to how good we look.

By RobynC| December 27, 2013 | 29 Comments
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8 Chapstick Combos Guaranteed To Make Making Out Even Better

I think I have something you can do that will be fun, tasty and get you hella made out with. It involves flavored chapstick. I have your full attention now, right?

By Lauren| December 23, 2013 | 44 Comments
Geekery

Couple.me App Is Co-Dependent, Also Wonderful: The Giant Group Review

“This would be a great time to merge an app review with how adorable everyone is with their perfect humans because everyone who works here is a total critter.”

By A.E. Osworth| December 21, 2013 | 58 Comments
Television

QUIZ: Which of Sleepy Hollow’s Mills Sisters Is Your Imaginary Girlfriend?

To help us through this difficult time, we turn to the time-honored genre as brought to us by such venerated texts as Seventeen and CosmoGirl: the quiz that promises to deliver your true “type.”

By Rachel| December 12, 2013 | 13 Comments
Sex + Relationships

Hooray It’s A Party! A Queer Holiday Horror Tale

Everyone is at this party. EVERYONE.

By Effing Dykes| December 4, 2013 | 87 Comments
The Scene

You Should Go: Queer Ladies Speed Dating At Strand Bookstore, Holiday Edition

We’re partnering with Strand Bookstore in New York City to host another round of Queer Ladies Speed Dating, right in time for the holidays! Our own Gabby and Katrina will be hosting!

By Vanessa| December 2, 2013 | 28 Comments
First Person

Public Displays of Affection: The Politics of Being Queer In Front Of Other Humans

What do you do when you see queer kids making out in the street? When and where is PDA okay for queer people? Who gets to decide when it’s okay or inappropriate?

By Helen| December 1, 2013 | 48 Comments
Society + Culture

Dear Queer Diary: Friends That Journal Together

The briefest safari through the overgrown pathways of the fearsome Amazon indicates that there is an entire genus of the journal family that is marketed towards journaling partners—of both the platonic and romantic varieties.

By Maggie| November 21, 2013 | 15 Comments
Sex + Relationships

13 Ways to Make Your Long-Distance Relationship The Most Awesome Part of Your Life

You want to touch them, smell them and, if you’re me, bite their ear. Why don’t the forces of geography and physics rally to both your cries and fold the world up like origami until the front doors of your homes kiss?

By Morgan M| October 29, 2013 | 32 Comments
Sex + Relationships

High Femme: You’re On a Smoke Date, Dandelion!

She’s coming over for a hangout. And she’s bringing an eighth of OG Kush.

By Chelsea| September 24, 2013 | 38 Comments
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