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Being a bi grey asexual means continually redefining desire away from limiting social constructs

How Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers” episode failed bisexual men & trans women

What do you do when childhood trauma makes you close off from the care you need to heal it?

On being queer and mourning the loss of straight male friendships

Feature: Grassroots organization BYP100 uses “radical inclusion” to combat racial injustice

In and out of the closet: Rejecting the heteronormative binary of “coming out”

It took a global pandemic, but the original spirit of Pride is finally being honored

A self-harm resource list

These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence

Why bisexual people don’t owe anyone disclosure of their sexuality

Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners

Loving trans and non-binary folks doesn’t make you a radical

Somewhere over the rainbow: Reading the Pride symbol as a queering of the Bible

Chills down my spinal degeneration: Why we need Black queer disabled kink

In a world where my parents let me be as free as Dwyane Wade & Gabrielle Union let Zaya

Black queer people were never #allJussieSmollett

In defense of The Gay Agenda: Reimagining life without cis-heteros

2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck

Queering Kwanzaa: How the seven principles remind me of QTPOC power

Your perfect work record won’t protect you if you’re Black and don’t stay in your place

On being too queer and not queer enough: Finding space for my asexuality

The story of Black queer women imprisoned for defending themselves to reminds us this criminal system cannot save us

Queer isn’t who you are, it’s how you reclaim freedom. And even the gayest of us sometimes fail at it

My queerness won’t let me give up on my queerphobic Black parents

Black youth need more than public health strategies that read sexuality as diseased and immoral

The rage felt so good, until it didn’t: The difficulty of cutting off abusive family members

Working through anti-Black ideas around HIV while my partner is HIV positive

Black LGBTQ activists convicted on six of eight charges for Columbus Pride protests

It’s not just straight men: We all have to reckon with internalized femmephobia in the wake of #MeToo

Luther Vandross hid for his mama: The closet is not only for the self-hating and selfish

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