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Blackmail, My Love: A Noir Exploration Of Queer History's Resistance And Community

Author Katie Gilmartin writes about keeping the memory of queer oppression and resistance alive in her new mystery novel.

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Fiction Friday: The Motherhood Gig

She had left him crying in his crib where she’d thrown him, a punishment for needing her more than she could stand.

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Disturbing But Not "Shocking": New Study Shows 1 In 3 Men Would Rape If They Could Get Away With It

I fully acknowledge that we live in a click-bait-driven world and yet . . . are these findings really "surprising"? Absolutely not.

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My Little Feminequist Pony: Lesbian Separatist Fan Fiction

Under the guidance of the two princess-goddesses, Equestria is to this day a place where stallions and mares enjoy equal privileges.

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Turns Out Weddings Have Nothing To Do With Marriage—And Other Matrimonial Thoughts 

I want to lie belly-down with someone in life's trenches. To do the work. To stand up, however sheepishly, and say: I don't want to go it alone.

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The Trials And Tribulations Of A Token Ugly Girl

I’m fat and trans and covered in body hair. But I have an abundance of affection beyond even my own comprehension.

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The Problem With Happily Ever After In Romance Fiction 

Some love stories don't end happily. So why do so many romance novels insist they do?

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Catholic Conversion Therapy: When Religion, Sexuality, And Gender Collide

In an attempt to understand the apparent motives of conversion “therapists,” I contacted a number of them. Here's what they had to say.

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