personal essay

personal essay

trans lesbian sex

lesbian dating apps

I Tried New Trans Dating App Fiori and All I Got Was This Personal Essay

“She admired my tits like only someone else on estrogen could and then she grabbed them harder than anyone had before.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Mar 9, 2020

I Think We're Alone Now

personal essay

breakups

Courting Loneliness

It was like saving a seat on the bus for someone who routinely happened to never show up. It was like setting the table for someone who decided to eat…

Kamala Puligandla —

Mar 5, 2020

longform

personal essay

lgbt history

I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons

Personal icons from Greta Garbo to Jenny Lewis: how we come by them, fall in love with them, and want to be like them. Who’s to say whether we’re really…

Jenn Shapland —

Feb 20, 2020

personal essay

riot grrrl

music

Wear the Band Shirt, Make Your Own Rules

Band t-shirts are a way of both presenting and defining acceptable enthusiasms, and the baseline for what kind of enthusiasm is permitted is always socially established by straight men.

Lindsay King-Miller —

Feb 3, 2020

personal essay

showtime

tv feature

“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I

Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 30, 2020

are you the one?

personal essay

tv feature

I Remain A “Catfish” Queer: On Love, The Midwest, and What We Think We Deserve

“Catfish has been serving diverse, bittersweet queer representation for almost a decade and it seems like nobody notices.”

Maddy —

Jan 7, 2020

family

personal essay

first person

There Are Some Ghosts I’m Still Waiting For

Someone once told me that if you’re Asian American, or mixed, or whatever, you have a grandmother poem in you that you need to write. This is mine.

Claire Oliver Haug —

Jan 7, 2020

family

identity

first person

My Parents Made Me Gay

Being focused on women never seemed remarkable to me. I grew up in a household with my mom, my younger sister, and my dad, so even if we were just…

Kamala Puligandla —

Dec 31, 2019

buffy the vampire slayer

personal essay

first person

From Willow to Waverly: A Decade of Being Out and Me and Queer TV

“I remember little moments so vividly — like Ashley kissing Spencer on the shoulder while they looked in the refrigerator for something to eat. This is what I wanted. And…

Valerie Anne —

Dec 27, 2019

personal essay

religion

first person

Prone to Wander

“Selfishly, I’m worried about what will happen if I say out loud that I’m uncomfortable with all this God, if I let my brain run its anxious course. If my…

Camille Beredjick —

Dec 24, 2019

family

personal essay

first person

Uncovering My Secret Queer Family History

Both Marge and Madeline chose to find family within each other, and from there I understood, as I heard these stories from Marge after my grandmother had died, and then…

J.E. Reich —

Nov 14, 2019

latinx

personal essay

first person

Getting Stonewalled at Stone Mountain

What, were you expecting the National Anthem to be sung in Spanish?

Alyssa Velazquez —

Nov 4, 2019