High School Sweethearts
By: Basilia Vega I’m investigating old photos to find the day, moment, or night that I made you unhappy. I never had much to offer in the beginning and yet […]
Category Archives: Relationships
Give Your Heart A Break: Lady Pop Songs To Move You Through Breakup Grief
By: Mar Curran Internet, my love of lady pop artists is well known. I would venture to say I am fairly well versed in how teenage girls are taught they […]
In the Pauses, Finding Strength: A Reflection on “Queering Consent”
By: Patrick Gill There is a cadence to survival stories. A rhythm often matched by facial movements. The face often veers to the right of the person being told the […]
Things We Said To Pass Time
by: Sophie Turton “You have indecisive eyes”, I said. Sometimes green, other times hazelnut brown, they were intriguing, often misleading. I never saw them cry, even when the mountain toppled […]
Crab Louie, With Love: I Hate Tuna, I Love My Parents
by: Patrick Gill I want to be completely honest, I finally sat down to write this after reading Sophie Turton’s piece for her mother’s wedding 5 times after its publication. […]
Serial Dater: To Me, My Gay Nerds
by: Adam Guerino Serial Dater is a dating column inspired by a year-long sabbatical from dating. The author went from compulsively dating to abstaining from dating and decided to write […]
Cat Marnell and “Fifty Shades”: Why I Can Be A Kinky Feminist and a Messy Human Being
by: Clarisse Thorn Note: This was originally published at The Frisky. * * * A few years ago …. Today, in 2012, I avoid him as much as I can. But my […]
Bad With Men: (I Think) It Turned Into a Date
by: Dana Norris Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. This was one of them. It’s 1am on a Sunday morning and […]
Math, Normaling and Sadness: Being Vanilla in a Kinky World
by: David Chastity For the past two years or so, I’ve been officially identifying as vanilla. Before that, I guess I was “experimenting,” or “curious.” When I did that thing […]
Ecstatic Gaydar: Getting Over An Ex With X
by: Caitlin Bergh I’m not a drug-taking person but once upon a time, when I was very desperate and sad, I tried ecstasy. I was desperate because I had just […]
