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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…

the team

Oct 10, 2025

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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…

the team —

Oct 10, 2025

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‘I’m in Someone’s Close Friends List and Don’t Like It’

“I also am usually scrolling ig on public transportation and it’s just shocking to suddenly see a butt close up.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Sep 23, 2025

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In Defense of the Queer ‘Emotional Support Ex’

Engaging with the world as a queer person means many of the roadmaps we learn at a young age in a heteronormative society are useless.

AJ —

Aug 26, 2025

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How We Cultivate Intimacy in Our Aroace Friend Group

What would be the shape of our lives if we prioritised each other?

Priyanka —

Jul 29, 2025

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What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

Listen, did we have a little TOO MUCH FUN ranting about our various icks? Maybe so. And now you can have some fun with us, too, delving into the various…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jun 28, 2025

One image shows a person with her hand on a man's shoulder. The other shows someone covering their face.

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I Actually Don’t Need to Hear About Your Trans Allyship!

Your friends are on your side and they can’t wait to tell you about it! Also, we help a trans reader who’s nervous about international travel.

the team —

Jun 13, 2025

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My Queer Friends Are Mean About How Skinny I Am

Is it ever ok to comment on another person’s body? Also, we help a reader with a loud late-night roommate.

the team —

Jun 6, 2025

Third wheel: A person with tattoos sits next to a queer couple holding hands.

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There’s Nothing Wrong With Being a Third Wheel

You can blame it on avoidant attachment or being a Sagittarius, but exclusion can be incredible.

Hope Cassandra —

May 12, 2025

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What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

Listen, did we have a little TOO MUCH FUN ranting about our various icks? Maybe so. And now you can have some fun with us, too, delving into the various things that give us pause, squick us out, and just straight up annoy or piss us off.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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The Gay Community Recalls The Word “Girlfriend” To Describe Platonic Friendships

“Gays exposed to the word ‘girlfriend’ to describe an innocent friendship often experience paranoia, heart palpitations, dizziness, an inadvertent rolling back of the eyes, and mental exhaustion related to figuring…

Erin —

Jan 7, 2016

Interview With My Queer BFF: Rachel Interviews Laneia and Riese About Their Friendship

“I’m really good at just torching a bridge and not looking back. And you are the only fucking person who has forced me to build the bridge back.”

Riese —

Aug 10, 2015

It’s A War Out There: How Queer Female Friendships Can Save Us All

“I’m not sure if there was anything specific that made me feel like I needed other women. Maybe it was moving to LA with no prospects. Maybe it was breaking…

Gabe Dunn —

Aug 5, 2015

Interview With My Queer BFF: Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo

“That’s when we slept in a bed together and when I woke up I said I missed you while I was sleeping.”

Dannielle —

Aug 4, 2015

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OK, What If I Don’t Want To Attend My Friend’s Improv Show

OK, What If I Don’t Want To Attend My Friend’s Improv Show

‘I’m in Someone’s Close Friends List and Don’t Like It’

In Defense of the Queer ‘Emotional Support Ex’

How We Cultivate Intimacy in Our Aroace Friend Group

What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

I Actually Don’t Need to Hear About Your Trans Allyship!

My Queer Friends Are Mean About How Skinny I Am

There’s Nothing Wrong With Being a Third Wheel

Featured Archive

What’s a Normal Human Behavior That Gives You the Ick?

The Gay Community Recalls The Word “Girlfriend” To Describe Platonic Friendships

Interview With My Queer BFF: Rachel Interviews Laneia and Riese About Their Friendship

It’s A War Out There: How Queer Female Friendships Can Save Us All

Interview With My Queer BFF: Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo

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