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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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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

into the af+ advice box

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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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into the af+ advice box

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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

The Parlour

Sai and her best friend, against a backdrop of a parlour

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Love Is the Last Rainbow Cookie

Whenever my best friend comes to visit, she brings me a container of rainbow cookies.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Apr 30, 2025

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you need help

"A few years ago, when I met the person who is now my best friend, I definitely had a big crush."

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‘Is It Okay if I Stay in Love With My Best Friend?’

“We’re not going to get together for a lot of reasons — I don’t really have time for a new partner, they’re monogamous and I am not, and they’re just…

Summer Tao —

Jan 7, 2025

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My Girlfriend and I Did a Boudoir Shoot With Our Gay Bestie and It Was Great for Self-Esteem

There was also something to be said for the beauty of women bonding platonically over sexuality.

Summer Tao —

Nov 4, 2024

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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

"personality cult"

gal pal week

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

gal pal week

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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

gal pal week

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

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

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