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A recent PinkNews article — which really gives up the game by admitting at the top that its whole purpose for existing is that “is Harry Styles bisexual” is a trending search on Google — got me thinking about this whole question of Harry Styles and sexuality (which, honestly, is rare for me: I think…

In 2007, while writing a review of Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, the film critic Nathan Rabin coined a term that would wind up taking on a life of its own: Manic Pixie Dream Girl. An MPDG, as you may already be aware, is a very particular female archetype that pops up in a wide range of…

Friends, you know me: I hate most sexuality explainers. Are you bisexual or pansexual? Are you pansexual or abrosexual? Are you omnisexual or polysexual? Truly, I could not care less, and mostly see these explainers as a way to sow division within the broader umbrella community of people who are attracted to multiple genders. However….

Another day, another “teehee was/is this famous person bisexual????” item from an absolutely clueless queer media. This one comes to us from The Advocate, which repackaged an equally brief exclusive interview from The Messenger, all in service of the posing the following to the internet masses: “Hugh Hefner famously slept with many women. But did…

There is a scene in the A League of Their Own tv show that has been on my mind of late. I’m too lazy to look it up so I can quote it verbatim, but the gist is along the lines of this: Abbi Jacobson’s character (Carson? I think her name was Carson) is asked…

I would not say that I was a Green Day fan growing up, though not because I wasn’t a Green Day fan, not exactly. In my teens (and, honestly, still) my relationship to music was too erratic to really be a “fan” of any specific group — save for the occasional artist who’d I’d get…

Although it pains me to admit it, I am still thinking about this weird obsession with Taylor Swift’s private sexual relationships. It’s not because I care about TSwift’s private life myself — I truly don’t, aside from generally hoping that she is happy — but rather an obsession with the obsession with her private life….

Years ago, when I was making significantly worse life choices, I used to hang out with a dude who held, shall well say, incel lite views*. On more than one occasion, we’d get into arguments about men and women and dating. He would insist that it was just inherently easier for women to date and…

If you spend enough time in queer spaces (and sometimes not just queer ones), you become aware of an archetype I like to think of as “the bad bisexual.” She — because the bad bisexual is always a woman — is cisgender. She is feminine, though not in the exaggerated way of the high femme…

This week, New York Magazine unveiled a new package on polyamory (which, as far as I can tell, is pegged to a memoir about a woman in an open marriage that just dropped this week). And, you know, fine. Good! The piece has some good info in it. If it inspires someone to make choices…