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You Need Help: My Crush Is Dating Someone Else and I Feel Very Jealous
You don’t always get the girl, and that’s okay.
To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing
You are eons beyond what they will ever imagine being possible. You are glorious, abundant, light personified.
How to Make a Thirst Trap Gif
Want to really impress your crush? Send them a thirst trap gif. Here’s how to make one.
Pop Culture Fix: Did Rebel Wilson Get Bullied Into Coming Out by an Australian Newspaper?
Last night’s Tonys were a big win for queer theater and Black theater, Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle are the first queer women pictured in Architectural Digest in bed, Muff Dives, and more!
Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Collection Makes Space for Many Selves
This is a book to be read and re-read, like all true stories.
Tribeca Film Festival 2022 May be It’s Queerest Season Yet
Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.
First Kill Is a Lesbian Teen Vampire Story About First Loves, First Times (and Hot Moms)
Do you know how much I would have loved to see horny teen lesbians on TV when I was a horny teen lesbian?
Quiz: Which Trans YA Book Should You Read This Pride Month?
Check out an anti-censorship toolkit to help get trans YA books in the hands of youth who need them, and then take this quiz to find out which one you should read next.
Put This on Your Face: Pride 2022 Edition
If there is one thing you take away from this article, let it be this: if you plan on kissing this Pride, please test out your lipstick to see how transfer-proof it is before you commit to it!
Our A+ Pride Pop-Up Discord Server Is Happening Now!!!
Meet your fellow members! Do it!
Playlist: Proudly Trans, Proudly Horny
Pride means owning our horniness!
Reine #35: Some Good Things
Life is too short to always fold your laundry. Sometimes you need to read books in the sunshine instead.
Needle Play Brings Me Back into My Body Over and Over Again
Editor’s Note: This essay includes descriptions of piercings with hypodermic needles and blood in a BDSM context and brief references to self-harm. Needles are an edge. They encompass many spheres and much stigma, reminding us that we’re flesh sacks filled with fluid a mere pinprick can pierce. IV drug users and those who are tattooed […]
“Fire Island” Is a Perfect Summer Reminder of How We Find Our Families
The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.
Boobs on Your Tube: “Roswell, New Mexico” Proves Multiple Queer Couples Can Co-Exist!
Plus updates on Charmed, Legacies, and All Rise!
Obsessed: Spiritual Guru and Alleged Arcturian Alien Teal Swan
Culty spiritual leader and self-proclaimed genius healer Teal Swan is the subject of Hulu’s “The Deep End,” Gizmodo’s “The Gateway,” and also my nightmares
Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!
Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!
Tobin Heath Says “Gay Vibes,” Christen Press Says “No Days Without Lesbians”
Just a couple of BEST FRIENDS in matching clothes. :)
So You Want To Wear a Bathing Suit
Behold a bunch of suits that have the structural integrity to stand up to some serious wave action and that are absolutely gonna keep you looking fresh and stylish!