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Explore and support LGBTQ issues, rights, events, and movements.

Sex as a Transgender Woman
It may come as no surprise that, as a transgender woman, I'm not always comfortable with my body. I hate my body. I hate what my body tells the world I am. I feel completely at odds with my body, and feel totally trapped by it.
By Skylar Rose Pridgeon8 years ago in Filthy
Confessions of a Teenage Scene Queen — Part 1: Preteen Cruise
Being gay on TV shows and in films always comes across to the curious individual as dangerous, scary, and you always had to be brave to even think about being part of that community. In my opinion, it's not all doom and gloom. In fact, in my experience, going through most of my teenage years as a fully out gay boy, it was like being in a sweet shop 24/7 with so many new things to try out and dip your toes into. Looking back at what I used to get up to absolutely baffled me and when I tell my friends they can't believe it but I figured if I write it all out it could be a good laugh for all those who read it.
By Zak James8 years ago in Filthy
Transgender People Like Sex Too. Top Story - October 2017.
If I had a pound for every time I heard someone ask me about my sex life and ask me probing questions about my body — I'd be a pretty rich woman by now. The same goes for the amount of times I've heard people ask my fellow trans friends similar questions. It seems pretty taboo that transgender people can have sex — let alone actually enjoy intimacy. It's true that we often, but not always, hate our bodies and desperately want out... but to assume we're all asexual couldn't be further from the truth.
By Skylar Rose Pridgeon8 years ago in Filthy
The Closet
When I was 13, I knew I wasn’t straight, but the only person I told was my best friend and her mom mostly because I knew they didn't care whether I was straight or not due to the fact that it didn't change who I was as a person. However, I’d grown up in a fairly religious family, church nearly every Sunday with my grandpa, who died when I was 11, praying before a meal, and Sunday dinners after church. Having feelings for the same sex was not something that was accepted in my family.
By Emmaline 8 years ago in Filthy
What It's Like to be Asexual
Asexuality is defined as having no sexual attraction. A better definition would be no immediate sexual attraction. There is a whole spectrum under that label, however. Asexuality does not mean that people cannot enjoy sex, nor does it mean that they cannot, at some point, be attracted to a specific person in some way. It does also include people who are repelled by sex, or romance, or even both.
By Dominique Thigpen8 years ago in Filthy
Morning Battle
As I sit here, staring at the blinking cursor on my screen, trying to write anything that sounds interesting, I hear a soft purring noise of my lover behind me, a sound I was all too familiar with. I look to see Andrea turn and reposition herself in her sleep. As she moves the sheets slips off and exposes her breast. The light seeps through the blinds and hits her just right. As if to highlight the glory and elation I feel when I see them. My mouth instantly waters. I want to roll my tongue around her nipple, nibble and suck on them until they become hard like Hershey’s kisses.
By Yae Yae8 years ago in Filthy
Does Sexuality and Sexual Preference Have More to Do With What We Learn Is "Normal" Or "Acceptable" or What Is Biologically Engrained Within Our Very Genetic Makeup?
Biologically our bodies are programmed for specific functions we share with all other human beings. In order to live, your heart needs to beat, your lungs need oxygen, and your blood is what holds you all together. Humans have natural instincts that don’t have to be taught to them in order for them to learn. From birth, you know how to take your first breath, and swallow your first drink of milk without much assistance at all. Our bodies are programmed to be a specific way, and when they aren’t what is considered the norm, a person is considered to have “something wrong,” be “sick,” or “disabled.” Our brain is a crucial part of our body and I have to wonder if the same rules or social norms really apply to mind as well.
By Brittany Stengel8 years ago in Filthy
Apples and Oranges
The first instance of the word “orange” in the English language was in 1512. Contrary to the clever quip you’d heard before, the English language did have words for the color orange before that—saffron and yellow—saffron used to refer to yellowish hues, and red-yellow used to discuss redder hues. Of course, many of the colors we traditionally think of as orange were simply categorized as red, giving us the strange phenomenon of red deer, robin redbreast, and red hair.
By Haybitch Abersnatchy8 years ago in Filthy
Discovering My Sexuality: from Kindergarten to High School
Let’s just start by saying that I am proud to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. It was not always like that though, and this is an early warning that it is going to get emotional. Maybe you already went through it, maybe you saw a friend go through it, or even maybe you are going through it at this very moment yourself. I am not saying all experiences are unpleasant, uncomfortable, or ugly; this is just my side of the story. I bet some other people out there had extraordinary experiences and I am happy for them.
By Richard J8 years ago in Filthy
The Curious Case of Bisexuality
My sister, Katrina, knew very early that she liked girls. However, when she was in the first grade she had a crush on "the popular guy" (however popular you can be when you're six), and my mother has never let that go. Katrina was in her early teens when she got with her girlfriend, and she came out to my dad.
By Yumi Yamamoto8 years ago in Filthy
Don't Label Me: Part 2
I want to clear something up from my last piece about labels. I worry that my ideas were taken incorrectly, I do not want anyone to think I don’t support the LGBTQ+/Queer community. I do support them, full heartedly and with all that I am. I support you, I support them and I support us. Forever and always.
By Emma Bukovsky8 years ago in Filthy
Pan and Proud
I want to talk about sexuality. I grew up in a religious family where the only option was to be a heterosexual man or woman in the church. Being ‘gay’ was a myth. The idea of lesbianism was a perverse impossibility made up by the porn industry. And there wasn’t a stratosphere where bi-sexuality, trans, or queer people existed, these were just terms thrown out of the air to make abominations feel better about their life choices.
By Jenny Vidler8 years ago in Filthy