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Movie Reviews

“Stroking an Animal” Is a Sensuous Portrait of Polyamory

Stroking an Animal is an arthouse movie that reflects the messiness of real queer lives.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 9, 2024 6 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Here’s All the 2024 Golden Globes Gay Goings-on

Here’s who all’s gay here at the Golden Globes (including Gillian Anderson’s vulva dress, you don’t want to miss it). Also: listen to Reneé Rapp’s “World Burn,” and updates on the new seasons of “Arcane” and “Stranger Things.”

Valerie Anne January 8, 2024
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Movie Reviews

Hear Me Out: What if Your Silly Horror Movie DIDN’T Have an Elaborate Backstory?

All Fun and Games is exactly that (fun, games) until it’s derailed by exposition.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 8, 2024 3 Comments
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AF+

Editor’s Notes: 13 Days of A+ and the SHAME Series

A real one-two combo of notes!

Nico January 8, 2024 2 Comments
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AF+

The Eras of My Bisexuality

She was the straight, white, Christian girl who was so picture perfect no one could dislike her.

Em Win January 8, 2024 5 Comments
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Lesbian Weddings

How To Set the Dress Code for Your Queer Wedding

We’re queering dress codes!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 8, 2024 23 Comments
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Food and Drink

Let’s Get Really Into Leeks

Leeks are a wildly underrated allium if you ask me.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 8, 2024 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Going Downhill Fast

What do you call a factory that produces generally decent goods?

Darby Ratliff January 8, 2024 3 Comments
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First Person

Queering Time: The Offering of ‘Kairos’

We all know how a certain kind of kiss can eclipse time.

Julia Smith-Eppsteiner January 7, 2024 5 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Lesbian Coat Are You?

Are you a classic denim jacket or an extremely cool black leather motorcycle jacket or are you a statement-grabbing fur coat? Find out now!

Riese January 7, 2024 16 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1601 Recap: Get Immunized

Ru promises a whole new approach which could either mean complex psychological torture or opening chocolate bars.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2024 8 Comments
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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Multiple Maniacs” Has the Best Lesbian Sex Scene Ever

Queerness should always include a cavalcade of perversions.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2024 7 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword is an Amorphous Thing

What’s big, gray and doesn’t matter?

Rebecca Goldstein January 6, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Raising Kanan Is Setting up a Peak 90s Black Girl Love Story

Coming out as a Black queer teen in the 90s can be messy business, but the connection between Iesha and Juke was genuine. And I think we have a Black love story in the making on our hands.

Carmen Phillips January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Monica Gave the Gays Everything They Want in the “Salt Lake City” Finale

A thrilling secret villain reveal proves Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is just like a daytime soap.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024
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LGBT Book Reviews

The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection

It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Breakups

We Asked a Bunch of Queer People To Share Their Go-To Breakup Coping Mechanisms

“Applying to jobs in Antarctica. Not joking.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword *Is* an Internet Subculture

What does a clock do when it’s hungry?

Emet Ozar January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Lesbian Sex

Things I Do To Feel Submissive Even Though My Partner Isn’t Super Dominant

There’s room for ‘incompatibilities’ if we find mutually supportive ways to manage them.

Summer Tao January 4, 2024 5 Comments
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Book Features

“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”

“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”

Riese January 4, 2024 8 Comments
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