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Photo 1: Jess from A League of Their Own wears a blue short-sleeved buttondown over a white tee with a blue ball cap. Photo 2: Lupe from A League of Their Own wears a striped t-shirt over brown trousers and a blue and red ball cap. Photo 3: Lupe wears a brown embroidered short-sleeved buttowndown over brown pants. Photo 4: Jess wears a ligh blue short-sleeved buttondown over brown pants with a leather belt and a blue ball cap.

Queer Fashion TV Feature

Style Thief: How To Dress Like League of Their Own’s Butch Icons Lupe and Jess

Jess and Lupe have distinct but complementary go-to butch styles.

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Playlists

Playlist: Ethereal Songs For Going Beyond Reality

Listen to these songs while you’re destressing on a weekend, pretending to be a sea creature in the ocean, getting high on the floor of your bedroom, or looking to the stars to tell you what your life means.

Things get intimate between Lucy and Kate after a long day of tracking down a terrorist. Kate pulls Lucy onto her lap and they share a kiss.

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: NCIS: Hawai’i Delights in its Queer Honeymoon Phase

Fall TV is back, baby! We’ve got updates on Monarch, House of the Dragon, Vampire Academy, New Amsterdam, Queen Sugar, and more!

Quinni, Darren, and Amerie in Heartbreak High sit on a bathtub and lean into each other.

TV Reviews

Very Queer New Series “Heartbreak High” Is an Excellent Entry Into the Friendship Breakup Canon

Heartbreak High features a queer nonbinary character, a queer autistic character, an asexual character, and so much more — but it never feels like it’s just checking boxes with its characters or storytelling.

Three photos of Nico as a teenager, they are a white person who has bleached blonde bangs on a brunette layered bob, they have on sunglasses and a grey tank top and are smiling. They are collaged in front of the Bi Pride colors (pink, purple, blue)

Identity

15 of the Most Chaotically Bisexual Things I Did as a Bisexual 15-Year-Old

My bisexuality was a resistance and a freedom and a liability. It was such a defining part of my life that I still cling to the word, to its shifting meaning, to all it can be and all the defiance it stands for.

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Feeling Seen

“Carson Shaw, indeed!”

Velvet broken hearts collaged in front of a bisexuality color palette (pink, blue, purple)

Friendship Identity

The Echo of My Friend’s Casual Biphobia Destroyed Our Relationship

“Remember your bi phase?” my best friend asked when we were in our 20s. I rolled my eyes.
“Yeah. It was never a phase.”

Two women tell each other a secret over wine, one is brunette and one is blonde. Overlayed over them are the bi pride flag colors (pink, purple, blue) and then on top of that layer is the following text message: But alas here I am, Not knowing and yet behaving bisexually.

Dating Identity

What People Said When I Came Out as Bisexual (Again)

A special shout-out to the friend who said “you know you can just be bisexual, right?” when I was spiraling about whether I’d have to give up being gay altogether and if the last five years of my life had been a lie.

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Celebrities Who Came Out as Bisexual This Year, Happy Bi+ Week to Everyone!

Also the 50 greatest Bad Bunny songs, and why does every teen in every movie want to go to Yale?

Viola Davis dressed as a Dahomey warrior in front of an orange sky in The Woman King

Movie Reviews

The Woman King Is A Testament To The Power Of Black Women

I left The Woman King feeling like I could fight any obstacle that was in my way. Not only was I full of adrenaline, but I was filled with joy. Seeing a group of powerful Black women triumph fills me like nothing else can.

Sawayama in a large black gown that billows out into a ball shape against a red background.

Music

Rina Sawayama’s Sophomore Album “Hold the Girl” Wants Us To Heal Our Inner Child

“Hold The Girl” now stands with “Sawayama” in cementing Rina Sawayama’s status as one of the best pop stars of our generation.

four abstractly illustrated figures engage in a celebratory kinky dance. from left to right we have someone with top surgery scars wearing assless chaps, connected bvia a pair of cuffs to a person who is blindfolded and wearing cut out underwear, who is dancing next to someone in a mask and what appears to abe a full body rope bind, and followed by a person in a fishnet, corset and ballgag waving a flogger above their head. The figures are featureless and hairless and purple and the kink elements are red

AF+ Love + Sex

How to Find Local Kink Community and Also How to Hire a Sex Worker

“There’re contingencies of queer freaks everywhere, sometimes it just takes a little more effort.”

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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes for Libra Season 2022: Where Do Your Beliefs Come From?

Today the sun moves into the cardinal air of Libra, officially ushering us into autumn.

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Literature

Rainbow Reading: Book Hangovers Are Real and I Have One

The latest LGBTQ+ book releases are full of queer dark academia vibes.

The writer A.Tony and their friends gather for a group photo at Clexacon

First Person

I Met My Online Friends for the First Time and Remained Fully in My Head

34. Am I a granola bar lesbian?
35. *eats a candy bar* no

Sarah Paulson on the red carpet the Emmys / gwen shamblin in front of a purple background with absolutely ENORMOUS hair

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sarah Paulson to Play Cult Leader Gwen Shamblin, Wigs WILL Escalate

Wild lesbians hit the street for Bros; The Women Over 50 Film Festival; don’t panic, women’s basketball is not over, and more!

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AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: A Hot Barista and Nightmare Spreadsheets

“It became what I thought was just a one-sided crush — a nice thing to daydream about while I was filling out the most horrendous, huge spreadsheets I had ever seen.”