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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

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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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The Best Queer TV Scenes of 2023

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judaism

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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.

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Dec 11, 2023

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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky

“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting…

Gen —

Dec 11, 2023

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Why was the snowman perusing a bag of carrots?

Emet Ozar —

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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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

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene

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movie features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “The Handmaiden” Has More Sex Scenes Than You Realize

The horniest parts of The Handmaiden wouldn’t really be called sex scenes by the average viewer and certainly not by the vast majority of straight viewers. But to me, they…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 9, 2023

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