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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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sexual assault

tops and bottoms

Two white women lie in bed on a white sheet. We can see their torsos and the tops of their legs. The woman on the left wears a light blue button-up shirt and dark blue underwear. The woman on the right wears dark blue lingerie. They hold hands.

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How Bottoming Helped Me Heal From Sexual Trauma

I had to learn how to feel safe in the world in order to bottom. For me, surrender is healing.

Stuti —

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To All the Hot People I Met on My Cross-Country Drive

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Em Win —

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It's Your Anniversary

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music

It’s Your Anniversary: Christina Aguilera’s ‘Dirrty’ Video Still Has an Impact on Me 20 Years Later

The pleasure in the video was never for anyone but her.

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The books Pet and Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “Pet” and “Bitter” Explore the Costs of a Different World

A new world isn’t possible without people believing it is.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

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pop culture fix

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pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Beth Ditto Is Proud to be Your Queer Feminist Punk Country Music Queen

Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz are doing a Glee podcast, is TAR Cate Blanchett’s best performance, the 42 women directors of Queen Sugar, and more!

Heather Hogan —

Sep 28, 2022

a collage of Robyn on the left, a white trans woman with hair dyed black and pink, in the center, a photo of Artemis an angry gray cat, and to the right, Yashwina, a South Asian person with tattoos, brown hair, who is wearing overalls

af+

Things I’ve Never Asked My Friend Who I “Married” in Kindergarten About Queer Horror, Books!

“There’s a certain point of friendship at which it becomes a blood pact. Certain things, we take to the grave.”

Yashwina —

Sep 28, 2022

kehlani

no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: I Did Not FORGET How Stunning Kehlani Is But Wow Thank You for the Reminder

Also there is a large part of me that refuses to believe the Wicked movie is really happening, I have been lied to for DECADES!!!

Christina Tucker —

Sep 28, 2022

also.also.also

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A white queer woman with tattoos has her arms crossed while standing in her workplace, her brunette hair is tied up into a bun.

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: 1 in 3 Cisgender Bisexuals Are Not Out to Their Coworkers, So 👀

What we can learn about Toni Morrison’s advocacy against censorship during a time of increased banned books, so much queer international news from Cuba to Turkey to Italy, and the…

Carmen Phillips —

Sep 27, 2022