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astrology, tarot & witchcraft Having Anxiety Dreams? It’s Time To Keep a Dream Journal This is your sign to start a little gay dream journal. Here are five prompts to get started. Autumn Fourkiller — Sep 15, 2025
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tv feature The Ultimatum: Queer Love’s Bridget Matloff on What the Cameras Didn’t Show You Bridget Matloff speaks on friendship with Gabby Windey, pressures of reality TV, thoughts on marriage, gender roles, and yes, haircare. Gabrielle Grace Hogan — Sep 8, 2025
af+ I Feel Like Leaving When My Sexual Partners Require Me To Come How can you convince your hookups to stop trying to make you have an orgasm? Also, tips on maintaining a writing practice for people with ADHD. the team — Sep 5, 2025
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af+ Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit? They’re doing well financially and love your kid — should you still offer money? Also; tips on giving complements to mascs and butches. the team — Aug 29, 2025
culture Culture Hell Yeah, Brother! Trans Dudes Are Kissing in the Wrestling Ring The horniness of T-Boy Wrestling transcends simple attraction. It’s not just sexy…it’s liberating. Motti Aug 14, 2025
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Is It So Wrong To Pick Up My Ex-Girlfriend From Jail? Your girlfriend wants you to go no-contact with your ex after you picked her up from jail. Also; is it ok to tell your now-sober partner about the mean things they said when they were drunk? Af+ af+ the team — Sep 26, 2025
Was I A Fool To Think They’d Kiss Me Back? You made the first move and have felt weird about it ever since. Also — needing tips on dating in your mid-30s, ’cause it’s not going well so far. Af+ af+ the team — Oct 17, 2025
OK, What If I Don’t Want To Attend My Friend’s Improv Show Someone must really hate improv — or their friend!!! Someone else is low-key dying that their friend isn’t returning borrowed books on time. And someone else is sweating their ass off on T and needs help. Af+ af+ the team — Oct 10, 2025
Is There a “Right Way” To Have Public Sex? Your girlfriend loved gym bathroom sex but you’re not so sure you wanna do it again. Also: how to feel sexier while living with long Covid. Af+ af+ the team — Oct 3, 2025
Is It So Wrong To Pick Up My Ex-Girlfriend From Jail? Your girlfriend wants you to go no-contact with your ex after you picked her up from jail. Also; is it ok to tell your now-sober partner about the mean things they said when they were drunk? Af+ af+ the team — Sep 26, 2025
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AF + Baby Steps #2: Telling Chosen Family, Bonding With Heterosexuals and a Lot of Dog Feelings Riese Dec 3, 2024
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TV FEATURE The Ultimatum: Queer Love’s Bridget Matloff on What the Cameras Didn’t Show You Bridget Matloff speaks on friendship with Gabby Windey, pressures of reality TV, thoughts on marriage,… Gabrielle Grace Hogan — Sep 8, 2025
GENDER I Treat My Wife Like a Barbie Doll and She Likes It Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Kristen Arnett discuss the sliding scale of gender expression and how… Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Kristen Arnett — Jul 8, 2025
TV FEATURE Mal Wright Didn’t Want To Be Your Favorite ‘Ultimatum: Queer Love’ Cast Member In anticipation of the Season Two premiere, Mal tells us everything about how The Ultimatum:… Riese — Jun 24, 2025
AF+ Working Girls: Luxury Escort Charlie Levine on the Rise of Women Clients In Sex Work “Women are so socialized — successfully or not — to be objects of desire, not subjects… Riese — May 15, 2025
AF+ I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am “Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a… Kristen Arnett — Sep 25, 2024
AF+ The Eras of My Bisexuality She was the straight, white, Christian girl who was so picture perfect no one could… Em Win — Jan 8, 2024
AF+ Shame as a Black, Autistic Queer Elder “Toward the end of our stay in Mississippi, a 24-hour crisis line started up. I… Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti — Dec 31, 2023
AF+ Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt “The other partners I had throughout much of my time in sex work were uncomfortable… Gia Jones — Dec 30, 2023
AF+ “Too Queer, Too Smart” for Abuse “They didn’t hit me. They didn’t throw me. They didn’t throw the phones, the glasses,… Holly — Dec 26, 2023
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AF+ Not Grateful Enough “Thank you for pushing me down a ramp so quickly that I slammed into a… Katie — Dec 15, 2023
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AF+ Love In A Sinking City: A Queer Timeline “Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the… Machi — Nov 21, 2023
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AF+ The Flood Came Later “I’ve always loved the water. Before top surgery, when my discomfort with my body was… Jude Little — Nov 15, 2023
AF+ Running Away, Running Home: A Bipolar Queer’s Path to Family “I drove so fast away from her, that house, that man, that job, those lost… Em Win — Nov 9, 2023
AF+ The Price of Perfectionism: Chronic Illness, Unemployment, and Starting Over “I could start a Youtube channel or a blog about disability rights and monetize it.… Katie — Nov 8, 2023
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AF+ How Art Modeling Carried Me Through an Abusive Relationship “I wanted to be a landscape or a place that couldn’t be contained.” Lexie Bean — Nov 10, 2022
AF+ Is There Life After High School? “I wanted to have nightmares about monsters or mass shootings. It was too embarrassing —… Drew Burnett Gregory — Sep 8, 2022
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AF+ I Was Supposed To Be Good At Math For a split second, I thought about her racial calculations, not because I felt I… Em Win — Mar 11, 2022
AF+ By Fighting Gender Expectations, My Mother Made Room for Me to Be Myself “I faced the difficult truth that, despite it getting me through so much, “Black womanhood”… Amari Gaiter — Feb 23, 2022
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