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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

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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

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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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You Need Help: My Crush Is Dating Someone Else and I Feel Very Jealous

You don’t always get the girl, and that’s okay.

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Jun 14, 2022

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To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing

You are eons beyond what they will ever imagine being possible. You are glorious, abundant, light personified.

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Jun 13, 2022

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How to Make a Thirst Trap Gif

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Pop Culture Fix: Did Rebel Wilson Get Bullied Into Coming Out by an Australian Newspaper?

Last night’s Tonys were a big win for queer theater and Black theater, Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle are the first queer women pictured in Architectural Digest in bed, Muff…

Heather Hogan —

Jun 13, 2022

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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s Poetry Collection Makes Space for Many Selves

This is a book to be read and re-read, like all true stories.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Jun 13, 2022

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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 May be It’s Queerest Season Yet

Dani Janae talks to Tribeca Film Festival programmers, Lucy Mukerjee and Shakira Refos, on the importance of investing in queer artists and audiences.

danijanae —

Jun 13, 2022

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tv reviews

First Kill Is a Lesbian Teen Vampire Story About First Loves, First Times (and Hot Moms)

Do you know how much I would have loved to see horny teen lesbians on TV when I was a horny teen lesbian?

Shelli Nicole —

Jun 13, 2022

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Quiz: Which Trans YA Book Should You Read This Pride Month?

Check out an anti-censorship toolkit to help get trans YA books in the hands of youth who need them, and then take this quiz to find out which one you…

Casey —

Jun 12, 2022