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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

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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

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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Also.Also.Also: Why Do Queer Women Love “Love & Basketball”? An Investigation

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Carmen Phillips —

Sep 23, 2021

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S L I C K: The Maid Who Was Elegant

A Countess challenges her newest trans maid to make a sopping wet gamble. “The Countess said she could use whatever means necessary, and Myra had assumed she meant some form…

June Amelia Rose —

Sep 23, 2021

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identity

Three Bisexuals in Their 30s on Coming Out While in Long Term, Monogomous Relationships

“I didn’t want a divorce, didn’t want to open our relationship, didn’t want to start dating other people — I just wanted to own this piece of myself that I’d…

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Sep 23, 2021

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sports

The 2021 WNBA Playoffs Start Tonight — Who Ya Got?

“I am excited… but also filled with a little dread?”

Natalie —

Sep 23, 2021

bisexuality

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identity

Navigating My Biracial, Bisexual Identities Is a Lot Like Physics (Stay With Me Here)

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literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Engineering a Hot Streak

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Ryan Yates —

Sep 23, 2021