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Home » lesbians

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Posted inArts & Culture

Remembering forgotten lesbian history

by Cody Corrall October 10, 2019August 18, 2021

“Lavender Women & Killer Dykes” at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives shines a light on the people, places, and publications that shaped Chicago’s lesbian culture.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘Why do straight guys like anal so much?’ and other questions from live audiences

by Dan Savage October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

After a brief tour of the upper midwest, Dan Savage delves into the queries he didn’t get to.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

To fist or not to fist

by Dan Savage September 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Dan Savage advises a concerned party whose roommate has strange men over to fist him every day, and more.

Posted inFilm

The not-so-incredibly-true adventure of two Orthodox Jewish girls in love

by Ben Sachs May 4, 2018August 18, 2021

With Disobedience, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio delivers a heavy-handed message about following your heart.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How to take a fly on that workplace romance

by Dan Savage January 25, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan advises an out lesbian interested in a coworker, a sixtysomething would-be lesbian, and more.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Savage Love quickies to bid farewell to 2017

by Dan Savage December 28, 2017August 18, 2021

Tidying things up at the end of year, Dan issues two DTMFAs, explains why a man might not want to French-kiss the mouth that just blew him, and more.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘Why do I always fall in love with lesbians?’

by Dan Savage December 20, 2017August 18, 2021

A “sporty” Italian really wants to know. Plus: better dick pics, and more

"I've been sitting in class all day thinking about all the sex we will probably never have."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Take my virginity, please!

by Dan Savage June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan on giving up your virginity to your high school crush, selling weathered boxer briefs online, and coming to accept that your girlfriend has no interest in fucking you.

"Do they still publish Playboy?"
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Should Mom buy Playboy for her kid?

by Dan Savage May 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Dan on a cross-dresser in a nursing home, drunk straight girls making out, and a kid’s developing porn connoisseurship.

Bulrusher faces an inconsequential choice
Posted inArts & Culture

Listen up, playwrights! And avoid Bulrusher’s three fatal flaws

by Justin Hayford November 7, 2012August 19, 2021

A brief tutorial on the three fatal flaws of Bulrusher

Posted inBlogs

In this week’s Reader: Pot politics

by Tal Rosenberg December 1, 2011August 19, 2021

What’s in the December 1st, 2011 issue of the Reader

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Posted inMusic

Good Ass Job Apparently Leakproof

by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson April 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Bloggers fall for a Kanye rumor, Jenny Hoyston’s womyn’s fest, a farewell to Metal Haven, and more

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