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Breakups

You Need Help: Why Do I Miss My Terrible Ex?


When relationships end, we might feel angry or wistful or hurt. Giving ourselves space for all of those feelings is how we bust through the pain and turn it into growth. 


Ro White February 4, 2020 7 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Early Season 4 Crown Photos Suggest Gillian Anderson Blessedly Unsexy as Margaret Thatcher, Thank God

How will Anderson portray such a polarizing figure, many wondered, and more pressingly, will I have to reckon with being attracted to her while she does it? As more photos from the set of Season 3 of The Crown emerge, the answer to that question appears to offer some relief.

Rachel February 4, 2020 8 Comments
Breakups

Valentine’s Day Date Ideas I’ve Had Since My Wife Left Me Six Months Ago

Hear me out.

Laneia February 4, 2020 60 Comments
First Person

People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List

Being bisexual is lit.

Keah Brown February 4, 2020 25 Comments
the stronic surf
Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Stronic Surf

Fun Factory’s Surf, the latest in their line of pulsators, lets you ride the wave of deep massaging ridges as far as they’ll take you.

Guest February 3, 2020 1 Comment
Book Lists

8 Amazing Audiobooks About Queer Women

The following 8 books are mind-blowingly good fiction audiobooks about queer women. I’m talking incredible voice acting that takes the story to a whole other level.

Casey February 3, 2020 11 Comments
Money + Work

You Need Help: How Do I Come Out as Trans at Work?

Here are some tips to come out at work as safely as possible, and it requires a little bit of preparation in and out of the office.

Archie February 3, 2020 5 Comments
Music

Wear the Band Shirt, Make Your Own Rules

Band t-shirts are a way of both presenting and defining acceptable enthusiasms, and the baseline for what kind of enthusiasm is permitted is always socially established by straight men.

Lindsay King-Miller February 3, 2020 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: 49ers Lose Super Bowl, but Lesbian Coach Katie Sowers Is Still a Winner, Baby!

Demi Lovato on coming out to her parents, softbois, making queer history at historically black colleges, and it’s time to get ready for the Iowa Caucus.

Carmen Phillips February 3, 2020 11 Comments
Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 306: Lifesize with Jes Tom!

The “To L and Back” podcast is plunging RIGHT back in to the sloppy mud of Season Three! This week, comic Jes Tom joins us to discuss “straight” Dylan, strap-on dimensions, cheaters, birds and Sleater-Kinney!

Riese February 3, 2020 4 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Loves The Big Game with Ellen and Portia

Happy Sports Sunday! We’ve got gay Super Bowl commercials, queer books that won’t make you sad, parks being named after Marsha P. Johnson, stories about little known queer history, and more!

Ari February 2, 2020 9 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Among The Ashes

TikTok and porn aesthetics, the fisting emoji obvs, how to initiate sex without feeling awkward and more.

Ryan Yates February 2, 2020 4 Comments
LGBT History

Black Queer People Writing Ourselves Into History: An Autostraddle Master List

We want this year’s Black History Month to be serious. But also – sexy, fun, JOYful. We want to reflect the multiple ways that black people see ourselves and walk through our world. And so, we begin here. By writing ourselves back into our own history.

Carmen Phillips February 1, 2020 4 Comments
Recipes

The Dyke Kitchen: Dishes inspired by Chani Nicholas, Tracy Chapman & Bette Porter

The concept for today’s cooking adventures: making dishes inspired by three iconic lesbians who influenced us, and who we’d also want to invite to a dinner party to experience them experiencing our food — yes, very gay.

Kamala Puligandla February 1, 2020 10 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #69: Coming of Age

I don’t want my life before America to become abstract, but the distance in space and time makes some loss inevitable.

Yao Xiao February 1, 2020 2 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for February 2020: Find What’s Real and Start Anew

In a year full of pressure, February brings some cosmic sweetness that can help heal or hearts—or encourage escapism.

Corina Dross February 1, 2020 6 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Those Thunder Grace Kisses Are Sparking up Black Lightning!

Plus updates on Nancy Drew, All American, Arrow, and The Bold Type!

The TV Team January 31, 2020 5 Comments
AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #10: Is She Straight or Into You? Can You Dress Gay? and More!

Be the cool queer cousin you wished for as a kid, the polite way to turn someone down, sex is still great without an orgasm, creating your own queer community when you feel alone in the world, and 20 other questions from everyday readers like you!

the team January 31, 2020 18 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Wait, This New Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Movie Is NOT a “Carol” Sequel?

I guess this is Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley, which, according to the plot summary I just read on Wikipedia, is literally Pretty Little Liars.  

Heather Hogan January 31, 2020 9 Comments
Shego, a young woman from Kim Possible, has Black hair, pale skin, and green eyes. She is pinning someone to a wall with one hand, and holding her other hand up toward her face.
First Person

In Honor of Rude Women

“I aspire to be described as terrible and lovely.”

Rachel January 31, 2020 29 Comments
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