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    Are queer girls missing out?

    One of my gay guy buddies recently went to a sex-on-premises club for the first time. He usually avoids gay bars and longs to settle down with a non-sceney guy, so I was surprised to hear my...

    • Posted 2 days ago
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    Save The Rat

    When I first moved to Sydney from Melbourne about four years ago I struggled to connect with the place. Sydney seemed a bit too shiny for my liking with its ridiculously beautiful landmarks, beaches and people. The...

    • Posted 22 days ago
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    The last man standing

    I wonder how it feels to be the last guy a girl dates before she comes out as a lesbian. Gold star gays are few and far between, so chances are you’ve been that girl who discovered...

    • Posted 37 days ago
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    The faumosexuals strike back

    If there’s one thing that pisses me off, it’s straight girls who lez it up in public just to get attention. I want to make it clear that I’m not bagging out bisexuals here. Bisexuals are not...

    • Posted 50 days ago
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    Stop the presses

    Sometimes the world just doesn’t make sense. A film featuring consensual gay sex gets banned but the news reports real life sexual assault in graphic detail for anyone to see. I know what I find most disturbing....

    • Posted 65 days ago
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    Animal queendom

    Hope you had a happy Mardi Gras, party animals. As we strutted down Oxford St on Saturday night in a celebration of queer pride, similar events were taking place in kennels, zoos, jungles and oceans across the...

    • Posted 79 days ago
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    Hip as Higgins

    “There are a lot of Missy Higgins types around here” – said by some guy to his mate as me and my lez pals walked down Brunswick St in Melbourne last Saturday night. We totally cracked up....

    • Posted 93 days ago
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    Separating the fact from lesbian fiction

    Valentine’s Day is upon us so I’d like to take this opportunity to debunk five myths about lesbian love. By that I mean fucking. #1 Scissoring. I didn’t even know this was a thing until the Scissor...

    • Posted 99 days ago
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    Trying to resist being pretty, witty and gay

    Pretty. It’s hardly a compliment. At least that’s how I felt for most of my 20s. When mum would say, “Your hair looks so pretty” I’d immediately scruff it up knowing I’d failed in the bathroom that...

    • Posted 106 days ago
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    Get a whiff of this

    I wear men’s cologne. While my mum thinks that’s weird, I know I’m not alone. Heaps of queer girls do. I’m sure some straight girls do too. I wear it because I think it smells nice. I...

    • Posted 113 days ago
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