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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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af+ personal essay

BEGIN AGAIN

A young school girl is seen carrying anither school girl as they try to navigate a flooded road after school hours just after the rain in Lagos, West of Nigeria on October 6, 2022.

af+

Love In A Sinking City: A Queer Timeline

“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under…

Machi —

Nov 21, 2023

you need help

dating

You Need Help: Am I Invisible to Other LGBTQIA People?

There isn’t a secret formula for attracting others, but confidence does go a long way.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Nov 21, 2023

#affiliatemarketing

shopping

Matching Holiday Pajama Sets for Your Super Cute Queer Fam

When my partner and I got together, one of the things I was most excited about were the matching family pajamas for Christmas we were going to get.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Nov 21, 2023

Lupita Nyong'o Lipstick Lover: four identical screenshots from Lupita Nyong'o's instagram of her leaning against a door while dancing in tight short shorts, a tight top, and sunglasses.

celebrities (vapid fluff)

Lupita Nyong’o Posts “Official Audition” To Be Janelle Monáe’s Lipstick Lover

This could very well just be a classic make-your-ex-jealous IG lip sync.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 20, 2023

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: “The Marvels” Allegedly Cut a Scene Confirming Valkyrie and Captain Marvel’s Lesbian Relationship, As The MCU Is Wont To Do

“The Marvels” allegedly cut a scene that would’ve confirmed a past lesbian relationship between Captain Marvel and Valkyrie, Josie Totah on playing an 1800s lesbian in The Buccaneers, Hunter Schafer…

Riese —

Nov 20, 2023

love is sometimes not a lie

wnba

Kahleah Copper is engaged: Three photos of Kahleah Copper and her fiancée Binta Daisy Drammeh, they are in bronze colors and smiling in love

sports

WNBA Star Kahleah Copper’s Engaged To Swedish National Team Member Binta Drammeh, Look at That Love!!

It’s giving “Love and Basketball” with a passport!

Carmen Phillips —

Nov 20, 2023

editor's notes

trans awareness week

A desaturated collage: an image from Street Fighter, an image of Reed Erickson with two women, an image of Patti Harrison, and image of writer Daven McQueen as a child.

af+

Editor’s Notes: Trans Awareness Week

What can a publication do that tries to center trans people all-year-round?

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 20, 2023

trans awareness week

video games

A desatured collage of six trans video game characters

geekery

From Birdetta to Flea: 12 Trans Video Game Characters From the 80’s and 90’s

Whether we’re claiming a beloved, aspirational character or simply being mocked, the following characters are proof we’ve always been in the vast world of gaming.

Eva Reign —

Nov 20, 2023