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Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

Horoscopes can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and working toward personal growth; HORRORscopes can let us avoid that…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

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A Wild Dare

For a long time, my wildest dream was my parents’ acceptance, it seemed so far off. Those years of silent dinners, no questions, no answers. I didn’t dare dream of…

Rita

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Mar 11, 2020

A photocomposition of 3 pieces of german LGBTQ history — the book cover for lila nächte, a portrait of

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The Future We Lost in the Fire

Book archives and research on queer identity from the Institute for Sexual Science were destroyed by Nazi book burnings. Our history and culture got lost. What else had I missed…

SAM

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Mar 9, 2020

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Seven Sensual Drag and Burlesque Acts Bringing Black Joy to D.C.

Spaces that center and uplift Black performers create a magic you can feel. Meet seven of Washington D.C.’s drag and burlesque performers bringing palpable Black queer joy to the stage.

Tahirah Alexander Green

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Mar 5, 2020

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What Would the Decriminalization of Sex Work Look Like?

As Vermont became the second state to introduce a bill to decriminalize sex work, the real possibility of decrim future is on our horizon. But how would decrim take shape…

Reese Piper

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Mar 3, 2020

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How to Make the MTA $Free.99

Even if it’s not overnight, New York does have the money and economy to bankroll a $Free.99 MTA. If New York were a country, it’d have the 11th biggest economy…

María José

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Feb 27, 2020

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The Utopian, Queer Promise of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”

“Call Your Girlfriend” is not just a song that holds up as a classic sad bop — but as a work of art that asks us to radically reimagine how…

Z Kennedy-Lopez

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Feb 20, 2020

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Bonus Time: Living To Be Queer Elders

In QTPOC community, the future can feel precarious. If queerness is so often associated with action and survival, how do we learn to slow down and rest so we can…

Jordan Alam & sára abdullah

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Feb 18, 2020

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Always In The Middle: On Being Biracial & Bisexual

Perhaps my identity oscillates at times but in a world that attempts to force me to choose one side of a binary, I remain firmly in the middle.

Kirthan Aujlay

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Feb 13, 2020

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Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

A Wild Dare

The Future We Lost in the Fire

Seven Sensual Drag and Burlesque Acts Bringing Black Joy to D.C.

What Would the Decriminalization of Sex Work Look Like?

How to Make the MTA $Free.99

The Utopian, Queer Promise of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”

Bonus Time: Living To Be Queer Elders

Always In The Middle: On Being Biracial & Bisexual

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