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👪️ what's the opposite of 'chosen family'? 👪️

a more precise way of talking about the family that helped mess you up

K Anderson

trans+trans+

🥚 so... what exactly is an ‘egg’? 🥚

the answer is surprisingly wholesome

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what is the ‘diverting tinkerbell’?

how campy celebrities survived by staying closeted

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lesbianlesbian

👭 when did 'sapphic' replace 'lesbian'? 👭

is it a more inclusive term, or just a muddying of the waters?

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How can a number be queer?

Some numbers carry stigma, some carry memory, and some became unexpected symbols of queer life.

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twinkdomtwinkdom

The Twinkiverse: a guide to twinks, twunks, and other twink-adjacent lifeforms

mapping the strange and sparkly edges of twinkdom

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micro-sexualitymicro-sexuality

💘 what is 'cupiosexuality'? 💘

attraction isn’t as clear-cut as we might think

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💒 what the heck is a 'boston marriage'? 💒

the Victorian-era euphemism for lesbian relationships

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+1+1

🔢 Why the number 24 is 'gay' in Brazil 🔢

how a 19th-century zoo lottery somehow made a number homosexual

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⭐️ are 'gold-star gays' problematic? ⭐️

harmless joke... or a weird way to rank queerness?

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bisexualitybisexuality

👖 is cuffing your jeans a bisexual thing? 👖

a particularly unserious investigation into bisexual culture...

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micro-sexualitymicro-sexuality

Micro-sexualities, micro-labels and nuanced attraction: a simple guide

Why there suddenly seem to be so many — and what they actually mean...

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