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My Gender Will Always Be So Much More Than What My Family Defines It As
Sofia Viera
Jun 22, 2022
Pride 2021
29 LGBT-Owned Businesses To Support For Pride Month (& Beyond)
Mercedes Viera
Jun 15, 2022
Dedicated Feature
The Unexpected Community That Helped Me Embrace My Queer Identity
Austa Somvichian-...
Jun 15, 2022
Dedicated Feature
How A College Dive Bar Helped Shape My Queer Identity
To celebrate Pride, we’ve teamed up with Absolut — proud 40+-year ally and year-round supporter of the LGBTQ community — to shed light on stories o
by
Emma Banks
Queer Voices
7 Things Queer Refinery29 Editors Are Wearing To Pride This Year
One question that haunts many fashionable queer people come June is “What am I going to wear for Pride?” Whether it’s your first parade o
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Mercedes Viera
Queer Voices
My Gay Stepdad Was All The Father I Needed
Moving to the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) was the worst day of my pre-adolescent life. My mom had the great idea of leaving our lives in New Jersey to
by
Breanna Davis
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Queer Voices
5 Brands That Make Shopping For Gender-Neutral Swimwear Easy
The world of swimsuits can be very stressful for nonbinary people, so we decided to lessen the load with expert recommendations from a nonbinary shopping w
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Mercedes Viera
Queer Voices
10 People On Their Awkward, Joyful, Lonely & Poetic Coming-Out Ex...
Before it became a chaotic and uncontrollable CW mainstay, Pretty Little Liars was a young adult series that took up an entire shelf at the nearest Barnes
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Lydia Wang
Queer Voices
S’mores & Gender Norms: The Evolution Of Queerness At Summer Camp
Summer camp is a place of firsts — messy, uncomfortable, and exhilarating firsts. First time away from your parents, first time building a fire, first ki
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Andie Kent
Queer Voices
An Open Secret: How My Queerness is Tied to Lesbians of Puerto Ri...
From the 1940s to the 1960s, Myrta Silva was one of the most famous Puerto Rican singers and songwriters, known internationally as the Queen of Guaracha. S
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Sofia Viera
Dedicated Feature
These Young Athletes Are Changing the World of Skateboarding
Skateboarding has come a long way in recent years. We see it in the way the sport has moved from counterculture to mainstream, highlighted by its inclusion
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Nikki Natividad
Dedicated Feature
Uniliner Is More Than Just A Makeup Trend. It’s A Form Of S...
For so long, the beauty industry has only catered to one very specific segment of the population (straight, cisgender, white, and female). But now, in addi
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Hilary Shepherd
Most Wanted
Target’s New Pride Collection Is Queer TikTok-Approved
[Insert alarm emoji]: In a welcome change from previous installments, Target’s Pride collection this year is a total vibe. While there’s still
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Mercedes Viera
Spirit Guide
The Queer Tarot Deck Finally Launched — & It Couldn’t Be Qu...
Are you queer? Are you into tarot? Well, the best of both worlds has finally landed in your rainbow-tinted shop-a-verse. The much-anticipated Queer Tarot d
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Mercedes Viera
The Floor Is Yours
Meet OfficiallyVeryGay, The Unofficial Gay Parents Of TikTok
Welcome to The Floor Is Yours, where we spotlight the creators behind the meaningful content on your FYP — because it’s not just about who they are, bu
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Lexy White
Somos Libres
Loverbar Was A Safe Space For Queer Puerto Ricans; That’s Exactly...
"It would be irresponsible of me to call it a safe space. But I will try my fucking damnest every single day to make it as safe as possible.”
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Ana Paula Teixeira
Living
These Photos Of A Nomadic ‘Seductive Queertopia’ Are ...
In 2017, 33-year-old Los Angeles-based photographer Devyn Galindo purchased a VW Camper. Its exterior was a gorgeous olive green – real ’70s style
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Joanna Cresswell
LGBTQ+
We Have A Lot Of Questions About Ikea’s Bisexual Couch
Another couch, another controversy in the land of Swedish meatballs and unassembled furniture. Fresh off the heels of their controversial decision to serve
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Erin Corbett
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Single Files
For a Queer Indian Woman, I Dream About My Wedding Way Too Much
Living in a small remote town in the hills of India means that there is never much to do for entertainment — worse yet, internet connectivity is limited.
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Nayanika
Trans America
Womanhood Without Instruction: Getting To The Clit For Trans Women
I had sex reassignment surgery, a vaginoplasty, on February 18, 2020 in New York City. I was confined to bed rest for a month. I ate and greeted friends fr
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Daniella LaGaccia
TV Shows
In Boys’ Love Shows, Queer Stories Exist With Pride
Kokoy de Santos, the 23-year-old Filipino actor in Gameboys, is everything you could want in a heartthrob — debonair as he is handsome, with a smile that
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K-Ci Williams
Relationships
My Open Marriage Ended — But It Also Helped Me Accept My Sexuality
I never told my ex-husband I was interested in women. I never had the courage. We didn’t speak about my desire for an intimate connection with a woman or
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Hayley Folk
Pride 2021
Casey McQuiston Is As Attached To Their Characters As You Are
The first romance novel I ever read was Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. I discovered it in high school after I borrowed it from my older sister and bec
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Olivia Harrison
Pride 2021
A Gathering Of Voices: LGBTQ+ Activists Talk About Pandemics Past...
More than half the population of the United States has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Case counts and virus-related deaths are dropping
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Dalí Adekunle
Books & Art
A.E. Osworth Wrote A Love Letter For Their People
I fell in love with A.E. Osworth’s writing the first time I read it. I came across an essay of theirs and read it over and over and over again, and then
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Britni de la Cretaz
Fashion
The Joy Of Gender Expressing
Since the pandemic began, I’ve changed my Instagram bio 12 times. A year ago, it read “lil andro idiot in coveralls *lipstick emoji rainbow emoji cartw
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Hannah Rimm
Best of Netflix
Where Were The Queer Relationships In
Bridgerton
?
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Series. There were several things I liked about Netflix̵
by
Amanda Kohr
Wellness
How To Be An LGBTQ+ Ally To Your Friends
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Sarah Van Cleve
LGBTQ+
Coming Out Is Challenging. Maybe One Day, People Won’t Have To
National Coming Out Day is Sunday, October 11. The day, founded by LGBTQ+ activists Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary back in 1988, is used to celebra
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Max Battle
Calvin Klein
Gen Z’s Queer Icons Talk About Pride
This Pride month, which marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — when transgender people, gay people, and drag queens protested police brutali
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Eliza Huber
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