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Caleb Hearon Mixes Humor and Heartbreak in New Comedy Special

Model Comedian proves once again that for Hearon, writing and performing comedy isn’t just a tool to get through the most grueling parts of living in this intense moment of anti-queer and anti-trans backlash, it’s a tool we can use to start breaking through it and breaking it down entirely.

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Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel

Last August, I was at a monthlong writing residency in Key West, Florida. While there, I did get a lot of writing done, but I also drank approximately 300 beers and watched a parade dedicated entirely to Jimmy Buffett.

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Comedy Halloween

If You Don’t Already Have Your Halloween Couples Costumes Locked In, Are You Even Gay?

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Comedy TV Feature

11 Gay Thoughts About ‘Love Island USA’ Season 7

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Trans Comedians Laugh Amidst the Horrors

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Comedy LGBT Pride

My Platform if I Were Mayor of Pride Month

All sapphics must swear an oath on the Bible: if you don’t kiss your crush it’s because either party didn’t want to, NEVER because you were too afraid to ask

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Comedy

10 Trans Guy-Approved Dads To Thirst Over This Father’s Day

As a bisexual trans guy who really wants to be a dad and who has a really great dad myself, I have a lot of opinions about hot fathers.

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Comedy

These Queer Comedians Are Fighting…and Kissing

This all-queer comedy, wrestling, drag, and burlesque show asks the very important question: Will They Kiss?

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Michelladonna Does It for the Queens Baddies

The people’s prince Michelladonna brings a native New Yorker perspective to NYC comedy.

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Comedy

Catherine McCafferty Thinks You Should Start Flirting and Stop Apologizing

Every single day, I wake up I say, ‘oh my goodness, I’m so happy I’m gay.’

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Comedy

Quiz: Is She Gay?

It has happened to all of us. You’re just going about your life and you meet a woman and you fall instantly in love with her, but there’s one problem: You have no idea if she’s gay or straight.

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Comedy

Anyone Know Where I Can Find the Trans Surgeries Advertised on Fox News?

They were saying kids could get trans surgeries as easily as getting a Big Mac at the drive-thru or, I don’t know, buying a gun at a Walmart.

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Comedy

How To Come Out (As a Podcaster)

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These Sapphic Romance Ecohorror Novels Are SO Hot (Literally)

A burgeoning microgenre has emerged in the lesbian lit community that has all the girlies feeling a strange mix of sexual arousal and existential climate dread.

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Comedy

The Democrats Have a Bold New Strategy To Win Back Their Base: Throwing Trans People Into Volcanos

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Comedy

The Hottest Party Is the Severed Floor of the Gay Club

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How To Improve Your New T-Stache

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Comedy

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