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sports

For Cammie Woodman, Tennis and Transition Go Hand-in-Hand

A year after transition, Cammie Woodman watched Serena Williams play tennis. It changed everything.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Jul 24, 2025

FIRST PERSON

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well,…

Autumn Fourkiller

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Jul 23, 2025

SPORTS

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player!…

Riese

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Jul 20, 2025

FIRST PERSON

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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Jul 18, 2025

first person

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well, I said. Probably not all of them, right?

Autumn Fourkiller —

Jul 23, 2025

sports

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player! Here are eleven couples still going strong and being tall.

Riese —

Jul 20, 2025

first person

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but the world at large.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan —

Jul 18, 2025

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society + culture

Chatting With Meg Elison About Investigating Rural Poverty in “Find Layla”

Elison’s latest novel, Find Layla, looks at the realities of poverty and neglect for teens in the age of social media.

Lauren Parker —

Aug 22, 2020

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republicans

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politics + activism

Extra! Extra!: If Trump’s Administration Is So Incompetent, Why Is It So Efficient at Enacting Anti-LGBTQ Policies?

This week’s Extra! Extra! reports another bit of news that flew under the radar, this time regarding gun control (it’s not good, you guys). We also cover the heinous violence…

the team —

Aug 21, 2020

Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Loved #312: The Key Word is “Oneself,” Which Is Irresistible To 20-Year-Olds

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Riese —

Aug 21, 2020

basketball

wnba

health

Shocking Revelation: WNBA Players Don’t Exist to Earn the Approval of Men

This is a column dedicated to all gay WNBA content all the time — and yes, that includes queer thirst. And boy, is there a lot of thirst to be…

Frankie de la Cretaz —

Aug 21, 2020

hey did you see that comment friday

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community

The Comment Awards Are 69% Secure

“Oh, and the sex, obviously.”

Darcy —

Aug 21, 2020

advice

into the af+ advice box

af+

Into the A+ Advice Box #17: Tense Workplace Dynamics on a Remote Island Homestead and More!

Dating and inexperience and some really positive advice about this, grieving while starting graduate school, coping with feelings of jealousy and more!

the team —

Aug 21, 2020

NSFW

Queer Erotica

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af+

S L I C K: Jesus Is; A Love Song Part 1

Severed and shamed by their church as teenagers, Danielle and Joanna are reunited years later by the very same song that propelled them into their sexual awakening years ago.

BobbyNicole —

Aug 20, 2020

also.also.also

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society + culture

Also.Also.Also: How to Have the Perfect Queer Zoom Date

How to have the perfect queer zoom date (because who knows when we’ll ever be able to touch each other with our bare skin again). Also: the distinct eras of…

Carmen Phillips —

Aug 20, 2020