Lesbians - xoJane

Why Gay Girls Date Straight Girls

Chloë — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:00 -0400

This is not an article about bisexual, pansexual, or women whose sexuality comes at a particular perpendicular slant. This is an article about straight girls who are down to fuck girls and the lesbians who love flipping them.

ONE NIGHT STAND BEAUTY! Products I've Learned to Love By Sleeping At Strange Women's Houses

Po Zimmerman — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:12:00 -0400

Everyone has woken up at some point in a bed without their usual beauty products on hand. Chances are queer women will have better choices when it comes to finding something to make themselves look presentable.

So You're a Lesbian and You Want to Step Up Your Nail Art Game

Po Zimmerman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:30:00 -0400

Nail trends have exploded in the past few years. Beauty-obsessed lesbos have had to improvise.

I'M NOT GAY: Why I've Had To "In" Myself To My Family

Squeamish Kate — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:30:00 -0500

Somewhere in my parent's house there's probably a dusty banner emblazoned with the words "Happy Coming Out Day!"

It Happened To Me: I Came Out After Five Years Of Marriage (To A Man)

Danielle Orner — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:00 -0500

I don't know what I expected when I told the people closest to me. A rainbow cupcake? Nothing prepared me for people's feelings of anger, disbelief and betrayal.

My City Isn't The Gayest City In America, And I'm Grumpy About It

Kate Conway — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:30:00 -0500

Gay magazine The Advocate did a write-up of the 15 gayest cities in America, and people are piiiissed -- mostly because its criteria rely on a very specific stereotype of LGBT person. Seriously, I refuse to believe the Whole Foods in Tacoma, Washington makes it a gay mecca.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Get Out Of My Gay Bar, Straight Girl

Chloë — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:00:00 -0500

Straight people don’t come to gay bars because they want to hate on gay people. They come because as the empowered majority, they feel entitled to access every space in the world.

Turns Out Lesbians Have Fertility Issues, Too

Cynthia — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:00:00 -0500

With two uteruses in the relationship, I thought getting pregnant would be simple.

My Parents Are Super Duper Hippies But I Still Haven’t Come Out To Them

Hattie Davis — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:30:00 -0400

Bearing in mind all of that left wing, liberal sentiment that was a staple in my childhood - you’d think I’d have come out to them by now, yes? Nope.

Rebound 2: The One with the Lesbian Stuff (and Heroin)

Anonymous Single Girl — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:00:24 -0400

I feel a big black emptiness eating at my insides all of the time, and people keep telling me how amazing I look.

I Just Can't Bring Myself To Call My Girlfriend My "Partner"

Sarah Brown — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:00:24 -0400

Partners are second-wave feminist dykes who wear tool belts and mom jeans and fanny packs and have permed mullets and make their own flavorless soymilk from scratch. We are not those lesbians.

10 Things Way More Likely to Turn You Into a Huge Lesbo Than JC Penney

Julieanne — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:00:25 -0400

Calling for traditional families to boycott a catalogue over lesbians is bush league. Whoops. I mean... Hahahahaha lesbians.

It Happened To Me: I Was Gay-Bashed In a Brothel

Liz — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:00:28 -0400

“This is for couples only,” he the beige suit manager barked, clearly angry. “A couple is a man and a woman.”

It Happened to Me: I'm a Lesbian Pillow Princess

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:00:08 -0500

You only get what you give? Not if you're me!

Um, Everybody Else "Experimented" With Their Female Friends, Right?

Sarah Saxon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:00:11 -0400

Over time, we scrapped the pretenses of a story line and went straight to humping. It was just part of what we did -- just like riding bikes, setting things on fire in the cemetery and raiding our big sisters’ Sassy Magazine stashes.

Oh, By The Way, I Used to Be a Lesbian

Emily — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:00:38 -0400

My parents said it was a phase. I grew irate, and furiously insisted that it was not a phase. It was totally a phase.