Alana, Kevin and Megan, a throuple from Northern Colorado, are using social media to raise awareness of their relationship – and polyamory. The trio, who says they love one another equally, met through dating app 3Fun, after Alana decided she wanted to explore her sexuality while dating Kevin. Polyamory means a person having simultaneous close romantic
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Some terms are often exclusively used by the Black community. (Getty) Imagine being out on a date and they tell you that they’re a “baby dyke”, or a “chapstick lesbian” – would you know what that means? What if they start saying that they’re “femme” or “butch” or that they’re a “stud” or a “stem”?
How to tell if you might be polyamorous (Getty Images) Polyamory – or being “poly” – has become more common in the LGBTQ+ community in recent years, yet, it’s not just for queer people. Polyamory means a person having simultaneous close romantic relationships with two or more individuals, with the knowledge and consent of all
Navigating your own sexual identity can be quite difficult, especially if you think you may be bisexual. If that’s the case, then maybe we can help, as these are some possible signs that you may be bi. First off, what is bisexuality?, Well in the LGBTQ+ acronym, the B after L and G stands for
Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year for many queer people. (PinkNews) Each year on 31 October, people dress up, go to parties, go trick-or-treating, or watch their favourite horror films to celebrate the holiday that has become known as Halloween. Today, many queer people affectionately refer to Halloween as “Gay Christmas” –
The UK has made legal leaps and bounds when it comes to LGBT+ rights – but the fight is in no way over. (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) Karen Holden, LGBT+ lawyer and founder of A City Law Firm, writes for PinkNews about the legal leaps and bounds the UK has made in the last three decades. It
Oscars nominees Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman in The Favourite. (Twentieth Century Fox) The 2018 Oscar-winning period film The Favourite follows the intimate relationships between Queen Anne and two of her ladies-in-waiting – but was Queen Anne really a lesbian? The monarch ruled England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702 until 1707 when England and Scotland
The term “barebacking” became widespread in the LGBT+ community in the 1990s. (Pexels/ Ketut Subiyanto) Like riding a horse without a saddle, barebacking is when someone with a penis penetrates a sexual partner without using a condom. Many people who have any kind of penetrative sex report that going at it without a condom is
Coming out can be a tricky business at the best of times. But for many, living through an unprecedented pandemic has made it that much harder. A new poll of LGBT+ youth found that COVID-19 is making living situations much more stressful, as it limits people’s ability to be themselves and contact their support systems. More
The Stonewall Inn. (Getty/Ben Hider) Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? Depending on who you ask, the answer ranges from Stonewall trailblazers Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera to Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga’s CGI’d ponytails in the “Rain on Me” video. On any given day, Twitter might congratulate Mariah Carey, or Laura Dern’s
What is the difference between sex and gender identity, exactly? Whether you want to brush up on your knowledge or you’re questioning your gender identity yourself, you’ll find the answers here. Sex and gender have historically been used interchangeably, but that doesn’t mean that they’re the same thing. “We don’t know how to measure gender,”