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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

FIRST PERSON

I Was Already Afraid of My Inbox. Then a Death Threat Came

The deadline for my compliance with the “blackmail” had already passed. It was supposed to…

Nico

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Aug 13, 2025

FIRST PERSON

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well,…

Autumn Fourkiller

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Jul 23, 2025

PARENTING & FAMILY

A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

“I woke up feeling like someone had run me over with a truck and I…

Riese

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Jul 10, 2025

first person

I Was Already Afraid of My Inbox. Then a Death Threat Came

The deadline for my compliance with the “blackmail” had already passed. It was supposed to be noon.

Nico

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Aug 13, 2025

first person

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well, I said. Probably not all of them, right?

Autumn Fourkiller

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Jul 23, 2025

parenting & family

A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

“I woke up feeling like someone had run me over with a truck and I thought, “I guess this is motherhood.” And probably would’ve died thinking that.”

Riese

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Jul 10, 2025

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Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a…

Riese

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Apr 8, 2025

Cowboy Clairvoyant above a door with a dream in it

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Cowboy Clairvoyant: A Queer Dream Interpretation Series

Members can submit dreams and tarot questions to be answered in this new weekly newsletter, COWBOY CLAIRVOYANT! Check out the first three dream interpretations!

Autumn Fourkiller

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Apr 7, 2025

One image shows a white family on the beach and another shows entwined legs of a person of color and a white person.

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My Girlfriend Hates That My Family Is White, But I Can’t Fix That

She roasts your family for being so white, and you’re like… yep we are, that’s true! So now what? Also, let us plan your trip to Italy!

the team

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Apr 4, 2025

One image shows people hanging out together at a party/intimate space, another shows someone lying facedown and sort of melting out of an open window space.

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I’m Afraid I Missed the Best Years of My Life

Your twenties weren’t carefree or slutty — are you too old to have fun now? Also, a reader’s unrequited high school crush is making them miserable.

the team

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Mar 28, 2025

A lo-fi video image of a blonde trans woman holding up two dresses as a brunette trans woman looks on. A VHS tape with Out the Movies is placed over it.

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Out the Movies: ‘Castration Movie’ and the Fallacy of Group Shame

That monologue from The White Lotus, a Torrey Peters novella, and Louise Weard’s lo-fi epic reveal who gets to be trans.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Mar 27, 2025

One image shows someone bent over on a sofa, another image shows fingers pressing into skin

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My Kink Is Humiliation, But I’m Too Ashamed to Try It

You want to try some consensual disrespect in bed, but then how could you face her the next morning?? Also, a reader is READY for a new hairstyle, so we…

the team

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Mar 21, 2025

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Dykes Discuss Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Black Bag’

Two dykes discuss Steven Soderbergh’s latest spy romance Black Bag, Cate Blanchett with dark hair, a new crush on Marisa Abela, the politics of spy movies, why Michael Fassbender shouldn’t…

Drew Burnett Gregory and Christina Tucker

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Mar 21, 2025

In one image, a white man is steering a yacht, in another image two people are holding hands in formal wear.

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How Should We Deal with My Fiancé’s Trumpy Dad on Our Wedding Day?

You’ve both got dads, but only want one of them to be involved on your wedding day, but like, without drama. Also, a reader wonders about sharing their erotica too…

the team

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Mar 14, 2025