Results for: queer parenting
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#PolyamoryProblems: How to Deal With a Closeted Partner
Feeling made invisible by your own partner’s choices to not come out as both queer and polyamorous is tough. This edition of #PolyamoryProblems dives into how to deal with a partner who is living in a double closet.
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“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 609: Laugh Tracks
Sara and Ava lead the team on a sitcom-themed adventure to prove that representation matters by way of saving Behrad’s favorite show.
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I Love Breaking Goals Into Small Steps: A Day of Work
Part of this job is making peace with the fact that I will, in fact, never get everything done that I want to.
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Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Knows She Was Cagey About Being Queer, She Just Needed a Dang Minute
Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out just because, and more!
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Into the A+ Advice Box #37: D I V O R C E
Today we’re answering your questions about D I V O R C E! What if your girlfriend is already divorced and doesn’t want to get married again, what do you do when you’re about to meet your divorced date’s kid, and what do you say to someone when they tell you they’re divorced?
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Boobs on Your Tube: Can We Call 9-1-1 to Heal Hen’s Heartbreak?
Plus updates on Younger, All American, Ackley Bridge, Top Chef and Charmed.
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In Pandemic Times, I’m Having a Digital Victorian Gay Romance
COVID-19 turned our relationship long-distance. We’re getting through it with Jane Austen and love letters.
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Unlearning Stigma This Bi+ Week
Stigma isn’t easy to overcome this. To a large extent, we can’t do it alone: we are social creatures, and we depend on developing and maintaining relationships with each other in order to survive. But it is possible.
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Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Maryam Keshavarz’s “Circumstance”—It’s Vital
“If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?”
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A Letter to My Ex on the Occasion of The Danish Girl’s 5th Anniversary
“People were always so impressed that you didn’t leave me, but your gift wasn’t staying — it was seeing. Most people don’t get to transition under the pansexual gaze of someone who loves them the way you loved me.”
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Special Episode: 2021 Mailbag
Happy holidays! And by “happy” I mean, things sure feel really bad right now?? But luckily our gift to you is a virtual one AKA our long-awaited mailbag episode!
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“Saving Face” Made My Lesbian Dance Floor Fantasies Come True
“I don’t know what’s gayer: the outfit itself or the fact that Vivian remembers it in such specific detail 19 years later.”
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Dedication and Liberation, or What Does a Queer Black Hanukkah Look Like
What does Hanukkah look like when you’re a queer, Black, convert who doesn’t find deep meaning in traditional celebrations of the holiday?
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Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer TV Couples of 2020
“It’s funny that I’ve seen a hundred queer couples on TV at this point, and it was finally these two teenage dorks who really reflected my own reality back to me for maybe the first time.”
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Hold Us in the Light
The thing about miscarriage is that the word itself does no justice to the great tragedy that it is. There are very few things I know anymore, but I do know this: Birdie will always be a part of our Hanukkah story.
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A+ MEMBER COMMUNITY POST: What Advice Would You Give Your Tween Self?
sometime this year you are going to steal your first pack of cigarettes from *redacted*’s mom: please don’t ? you will like them far too much and also will feel bad forever for stealing
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When Love Is A Matter Of Desperation
Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.
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Queer British Teen Dramedy “In My Skin” Hits Hard on Class and Mental Illness, Misses on Race
Ultimately Kayleigh Llewellyn’s show proves that writing from a place of lived experience will always result in the sharpest stories — that’s as evident in its failures as it is in its successes.
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Extra! Extra!: Everything Not the Election It’s Been Hard to Keep Up with
This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at a whole slew of non-election related news, including LGBTQ+ rights and the trifecta of global pandemics: police violence, climate change and COVID-19. And then, of course, we do take a look at election-related news too.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 75, December 2020
“Rachel — just a heads up that you are at the top of my list of bisexuals most likely to have cut their own hair with a sword.”