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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

Cannibals, like lesbians, are feared for their selective appetites.

Mallory

Oct 14, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about…

Bee Beardsworth

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Oct 7, 2024

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard

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Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie

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Sep 11, 2024

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

Super Size Me really fucked me up as a kid. I am a fat, bummed…

Gyasi Hall

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Sep 5, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…

Bee Beardsworth —

Oct 7, 2024

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard —

Sep 17, 2024

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Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie —

Sep 11, 2024

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Speak Her Name and I Appear: The Bloody Mary in the Mirror

The bathroom in my grandmother’s house had no windows, so Stella deemed it perfect. She was the only one with any summoning experience. For a successful ritual, she said we…

Mallory —

Oct 24, 2024

Horror Is So Gay

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My Body as Haunted House Metaphor

Horror movies, like many genres of entertainment, are deliciously, or not so deliciously, depending on where one sits, populated by tropes.

Autumn Fourkiller —

Oct 18, 2024

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Playing Gay ‘Survivor’ in Florida Reminded Me of the Power of Play

Out-gay, Out-slay, and Out-sport are the three pillars of OUTVIVOR, a Survivor-inspired weekend birthed by OUT Sports, an Orlando queer sports league started by John Teixeira in 2018.

Em Win —

Oct 17, 2024

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I Had a Spiritual Awakening at Sweat Tour

In many ways, the SWEAT Tour is an assertion that one’s enjoyment of sex and clubbing and music is more than a shallow hobby: It is a reminder that, amidst…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan —

Oct 16, 2024

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Horror Is So Gay

Jennifer in Jennifer's Body with blood on her mouth leans in close to Needy like she's going to eat her

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All Girls Want To Eat Each Other

Cannibals, like lesbians, are feared for their selective appetites.

Mallory —

Oct 14, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…

Bee Beardsworth —

Oct 7, 2024

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carol the dog

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A Heartbeat At My Feet

Carol was the best of me. She filled the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be: an animal unafraid to make the first move, loose and…

Riese —

Sep 19, 2024

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The Gay Algorithm

What if TikTok really did make us all gay?

Tylea Simone Richard —

Sep 17, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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Twenty Years Later, Still Haunted by ‘Super Size Me’

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

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