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#EndRevengePorn With YouTube Stars Bria and Chrissy

“My initial reaction was terror and denial mixed with just shock and despair. It was like my life that I knew was shattered.”

By Kelly| February 25, 2016 | 13 Comments
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Support SNAPSHOT, the queer love story that focuses on Women of Color and amazing, totally consensual sex! We’re the love interests, the doms, the desirable ones and we are in control of our narratives. Shine Louise Houston is giving us the goods.

By Carolyn Wysinger| June 26, 2015 | 4 Comments
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Remembering Us When We’re Gone, Ignoring Us While We’re Here: Trans Women Deserve More

As we honor the memory of those girls who have been murdered, ask how you’re helping the living.

By Morgan Collado| November 18, 2014 | 19 Comments
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Greyscale Goods Wants To Help You Build the Androgynous Wardrobe of Your Dreams

Sara Medd is a woman on a mission. That mission is to help you find all of the androgynous and otherwise gender-neutral garb you’ve been looking for all your life.

By Carmen| October 13, 2014 | 49 Comments
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By Laneia| October 8, 2014 | 5 Comments
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Six Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Watch “Lyle”

There is a new horror movie out right this very minute called Lyle that takes its cue from Rosemary’s Baby, and you must see it as soon as humanly possible.

By Kristin| August 22, 2014 | 16 Comments
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Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue is getting better and Russia’s only getting worse.

By Carmen| February 5, 2014 | 15 Comments
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Brittney Griner could receive the honor of her lifetime, a rainbow army is going to Russia, and Virginia Woolf got born a long long time ago.

By Carmen| January 29, 2014 | 10 Comments
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Bow down, bitches.

By Carmen| January 15, 2014 | 10 Comments
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Feminist, gamers, and Bound 2 parody fans had a lot to rejoice about this week.

By Carmen| December 12, 2013 | 9 Comments
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From prom to the Mormon Church, folks got a lotta ‘splainin to do.

By Carmen| December 4, 2013 | 12 Comments
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Everyone is Gay’s “Parents Project” Wants To Help Parents Of LGBTQ Kids Be The Best They Can Be

Help our pals at Everyone Is Gay help parents so parents can help their LGBTQ kids!

By Intern Grace| November 9, 2013 | 9 Comments
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Inside: more event invites than you can handle, a lot of worthy causes, a historical case of The Unicorn, and the delicious taste of Republicanism slowly, slowly dying.

By Carmen| November 6, 2013 | 12 Comments
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The weed fairy’s coming, Colorado’s in the doghouse, and there’s a straight chick making a living as a male model. Or something like that. I was too busy licking the lesbianism off of my Samoas, actually.

By Carmen| October 23, 2013 | 11 Comments
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I’ve got fifteen new Drake songs stuck in my head, the best puppy vine of all time on my hands, and Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, and some random football couple waiting in the wings with a lot to say.

By Carmen| September 18, 2013 | 9 Comments
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Here’s the stories we missed while I won big at the Elvis slot machines in Vegas.

By Carmen| September 4, 2013 | 9 Comments
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Time to Werk Those Pecs!

By Carmen| August 28, 2013 | 9 Comments
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A different kind of camp, a book you’ll want to pre-order, a victory for trans* people in the workplace, and LESBIANS.

By Carmen| July 17, 2013 | 12 Comments
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Everything was going great until Russell Brand showed up.

By Carmen| July 3, 2013 | 13 Comments
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The SCOTUS keeps us waiting, the man keeps us down, and nobody knows what the fuck is going on with Barack Obama these days.

By Carmen| June 19, 2013 | 14 Comments
News + Politics

Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta Stands Up for Gay Marriage and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Familia es Familia, unless you’re in the Salvation Army. Or Louisiana.

By Carmen| June 12, 2013 | 8 Comments
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