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Lesbian Models

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My First Queer Love Became My Personal Brand

I was fronting Pride campaigns and being put on a pedestal as some sort of representative of the queer community when all I’d done was fit into mainstream beauty standards…

Bee Beardsworth —

Feb 11, 2025

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lesbian bar culture

the scene

LA Lesbian Bar Ruby Fruit Is Fighting For Its Survival. We Really Need It To Win.

“The thing about having a community hub, a place you return to again and again, is that it makes the city feel smaller. You start to run into the same…

Gabrielle Korn —

Jan 17, 2025

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uhauling

relationships

Forget U-Hauling — These Queer Couples Don’t Want To Move In Together At All

You’ve heard the one about lesbians wanting to move in together on the second date, but what about the couples who aren’t looking to move in together at all?

Jillian Angelini —

Nov 13, 2024

'zines/magazines

Death of Print

lgbt history

How A 50-Year-Old Lesbian Magazine Is Surviving Despite It All

“Lesbian Connection was founded in a decidedly pre-internet era, when there were no lesbian characters on TV or in the movies, no lesbian stories on library bookshelves, no out queer…

Sydney —

Nov 4, 2024

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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me

“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…

Bee Beardsworth —

Oct 7, 2024

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carol the dog

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A Heartbeat At My Feet

Carol was the best of me. She filled the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be: an animal unafraid to make the first move, loose and…

Riese —

Sep 19, 2024

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I Had an Affair With My College Dean

We told ourselves she was teaching me how to love myself, how to act on my desires. This is what love looks like, we said, and I became adept at…

Olivia Swanson Haas —

Jul 10, 2024

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I’ve Spent a Lot of Time Pretending Not To Know What I Want

“There I was, gay at a gay club, not wanting to be gay, with my best friend / drunken lover who identified as hetero despite her not-that-hetero choices.”

swan huntley —

Jun 13, 2024

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I Think My Hot Girlfriend Is Gonna Leave Me For Someone Hotter

Advice for coping when your Instagram-beloved girlfriend seems too hot for you, rekindling romance after long Covid, and how to flirt — gayly.

the team —

Apr 12, 2024

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af+

Help! I’ve Gotten ‘The Ick’ for My Girlfriend

Advice for suddenly feeling unattracted to your girlfriend, having your first ever crush on a cis dude, and finding a sex therapist.

the team —

Apr 5, 2024

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into the af+ advice box

af+

Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

A request from a younger girlfriend has a reader wondering if her aversion to location sharing is a generational conflict. Also: how to keep a relationship sexy without sex and…

the team —

Mar 29, 2024

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I Think My Girlfriend Is Drugging My Dog

In this week’s advice box, a relationship plagued by dog problems and possible dishonesty, how to support a partner convinced they’re worthless without a job, and safe sex for poly…

the team —

Mar 22, 2024