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comedy

New Years Resolutions but It’s Just Cool Things Shane Did in ‘The L Word’

In 2025, I will have an affair with an older married woman.

motti

Dec 30, 2024

COMEDY

How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today!

It’s December 21 AKA the day Carol and Therese went on a pretty bad date…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 21, 2024

HOLIGAYS scene from Yellowjackets where Shauna and Jeff have brunch with Jackie's parents

COMEDY

Excuses To Leave Your Family Holiday but They’re Just Plot Points From Yellowjackets

“I don’t mean to be rude, but a wolf literally just ripped off half my…

motti

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Dec 19, 2024

HOLIGAYS

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

From a vintage nutcracker to the perfect lip mask to REALLY GOOD BEANS.

Laneia

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Dec 17, 2024

HOLIGAYS

“Gifts” for the Chaos Friend Who’s Always Getting Into Predicaments Big and Small

Embrace chaos, embrace inevitability, embrace the fact that being able to locate one’s own keys…

Nico

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Dec 16, 2024

comedy

How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today!

It’s December 21 AKA the day Carol and Therese went on a pretty bad date at Carol’s house in New Jersey.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 21, 2024

comedy

Excuses To Leave Your Family Holiday but They’re Just Plot Points From Yellowjackets

“I don’t mean to be rude, but a wolf literally just ripped off half my friend’s face.”

motti —

Dec 19, 2024

holigays

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

From a vintage nutcracker to the perfect lip mask to REALLY GOOD BEANS.

Laneia —

Dec 17, 2024

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A variety of homemade soaps in neutral colors on top of white tissue paper.

crafts & diy projects

Join Me in Making DIY Holigay Soap

It’s the holigay season! It’s time to do cozy things and get gifts for your loved ones. I figured I would do you a solid and tackle both of those…

Em Win —

Dec 16, 2023

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two women at a holiday market on a date having hot cocoa

holigays

10 Budget Friendly Holigay Dates

We can’t all vacation to a ski chalet to drink hot cocoa and enter their gingerbread house contest for a weekend! Here are some cheaper alternatives to capture some romantic…

Em Win —

Dec 13, 2023

hanukkah

movie reviews

We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian

“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 13, 2023

a small child — one's inner child, if you will — driving a toy car with a Christmas tree on top

holigays

How To Romanticize Being Solo for the Holidays

Going it solo for Christmas is turning out to be annoyingly emotional. However, what’s helped immensely has been romanticizing the whole affair.

Nico —

Dec 12, 2023

judaism

palestine

A menorah glows on the last night of Hanukkah, the candles almost burnt out, the background complete darkness.

jewish holidays

The Limits and Possibilities of an Anti-Zionist Hanukkah

For me, and so many Jewish people, the lack of certainty, the encouragement of complex discussion, is what connects us to our faith.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Dec 11, 2023

personality quiz

1. three women at a holiday party with sparklers. 2. three lit candles with lavender. 3. a holiday elf in the snow. 4. a lit fire pit.

quizzes

Quiz: Which Gay Holiday Archetype Are You?

Are you a Hot Cocoa Mommi, a Fire Pit Butch, a Chaos Elf?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 10, 2023

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trans

holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: Things Marketed To My Former Gender That I Actually Want

I was always bad at being a girl but now, with inflation, fast fashion, and heightened capitalism…I am so glad I figured out I was trans years ago.

motti —

Dec 10, 2023

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holiday gift guide

Goblin mode collage: gay chaos socks, purple sex toy, mushroom plush, back pillow

holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: Goblin Mode

We have gifts for those in your life going goblin mode this season or all seasons, presents for the filthy gremlins you picked up on your quest, and offerings for…

Nico —

Dec 8, 2023

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10 Years Ago, I Had the Most Chaotic Valentine’s Day Plans Possible

Chicago, Winter 2015. I'm doing a cringe-worthy, cliche version of Living In Chicago In Your Early Twenties.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

valentine's day

Lesbian Movies for Every Valentine’s Day Vibe

Whether you’re single, recently dumped, in love, or somewhere in between, we’ve got Valentine’s Day lesbian movie recs for you!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 11, 2025

new year's eve

shane

New Years Resolutions but It’s Just Cool Things Shane Did in ‘The L Word’

In 2025, I will have an affair with an older married woman.

motti —

Dec 30, 2024

Why I Rewatch ‘The Family Stone’ Every Year

The Family Stone is many queer folks’ first introduction to warm, unconditional familial love.

motti —

Dec 24, 2024

carol

How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today!

It’s December 21 AKA the day Carol and Therese went on a pretty bad date at Carol’s house in New Jersey.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 21, 2024

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comedy

New Years Resolutions but It’s Just Cool Things Shane Did in ‘The L Word’

COMEDY

How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today!

COMEDY

Excuses To Leave Your Family Holiday but They’re Just Plot Points From Yellowjackets

HOLIGAYS

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

HOLIGAYS

“Gifts” for the Chaos Friend Who’s Always Getting Into Predicaments Big and Small

comedy

How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today!

comedy

Excuses To Leave Your Family Holiday but They’re Just Plot Points From Yellowjackets

holigays

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

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