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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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Boob(s on Your) Tube: ‘Pretty Little Liars’ and ‘The Chi’ Keep Getting Gayer, Sorry Shawn

‘The Chi”s lady gays are learning to take risks for love and developing surprising new interests, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School drops a boyfriend for a girlfriend, ‘All-American’ tries to…

Natalie —

Jun 14, 2024

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music

This Tessa Thompson-Directed Music Video Oozes Sapphic Yearning

In Arooj Aftab’s music video for her song Raat Ki Rani, queer fantasy is more real than reality.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jun 14, 2024

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af+

My Family’s Mad at Me For Refusing To Go on a Homophobic Vacation

Your sister-in-law is being blatantly homophobic — IN JUNE — and your family’s mad that you’re mad about it. Also, we settle a debate for the ages: blinds open or…

the team —

Jun 14, 2024

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Summer Solstice: A close up of Marianne Rendón looking at Bobbi Salvör Menuez as they look down.

movie reviews

‘Summer Solstice’ Is a Relatable Trans Indie About Masc Insecurity and Nightmare Cis Girls

Summer Solstice is a film that dares to grant the quietest dramas of a trans person’s life the importance of the screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jun 14, 2024

trans history

lgbt history

6 Pre-Stonewall Queer Uprisings History Tried To Hide

I’m confident the archives are filled with hundreds, if not thousands, of stories still waiting to be uncovered.

Stef Rubino —

Jun 14, 2024

crossword

4 across / 6 letters / "The Renunciations" poet Kelly

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Mini Crossword Admits It Didn’t Totally Get “Dune”

Zendaya looked pretty cool with glowing eyes though.

Darby Ratliff —

Jun 14, 2024

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Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel

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‘Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous’ Is a Perfect Sapphic Second-Chance Summer Romance

For fans of second-chance romance, friends to lovers, and ‘celebrity falls for regular person’ tropes.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jun 13, 2024

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first person

I’ve Spent a Lot of Time Pretending Not To Know What I Want

“There I was, gay at a gay club, not wanting to be gay, with my best friend / drunken lover who identified as hetero despite her not-that-hetero choices.”

swan huntley —

Jun 13, 2024