Sexuality

The ‘Bisexual Bind’: How Same-Sex Performance Anxiety Holds Bi People Back

They missed out on young queer experimentation. Now, their insecurity around flirting and sex keeps them stuck in a cycle of straight hookups

How Asexuals Could Change Our Idea of Desire

Science writer Angela Chen on her interviews with ‘aces’ — and the infinite kinds of attraction

Why Some Queer Women Frame Sex With Men as Self-Harm

Thanks to a viral Reddit document called ‘AM I A LESBIAN,’ many women are seeing dissociative, self-destructive hetero hookups in a new light

Straights, Calling Yourself a Bottom Doesn’t Make You an Ally

If you want to hint that you’re dominant in bed and your partner is submissive, you already have extremely obvious words for this

Let’s Get to the Bottom of the Glorious New ‘eBussy’ Meme

A Wrenching Novel Resurrects the Story of AIDS in Rural America

Walter Mercado Was a Trailblazer Who Never Let Us See Behind the Mask

‘A League of Their Own’ Is a Lesbian Independence Day

Tabloids Can’t Take Away What Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson Meant to Queer Women

‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Spotlights an LGBTQ Genocide — And the Brave Activists Trying to Stop It