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Stuff Gay People Like: Being attracted to douchebags

When it comes to purely sexual attractions, we toss these desirable qualities in a long-term mate and idealize, instead, a different kind of stereotype: A bro.

No matter where we’re from we’re all familiar with this man – a cocky, athletic, beer-guzzling former frat boy with washboard abs and a questionable or nonexistent political worldview.

Mudbugs and pig candy: Nuclia tours the Sultry South

Last month I rode the Delta Airlines sleigh to the buckle of the Bible belt – Jackson, Mississippi. I marched down the streets of Fondren in the Sweet Potato Queens’ Zippity Do Dah Parade. My friend and author, Jill Conner Browne, unveiled her new book, ‘Fat Is the New 30: The Sweet Potato Queens’ Guide to Coping with (the crappy parts of) Life.’

Winning with homo-field advantage

I have to admit that I was never a big sports fan growing up. Getting picked last for every game on the playground is not an ego booster. Nor does it endear one to playing with balls, even if it means seeing boys naked in the locker r

Stuff Gay People Like: Planning to write an autobiography

Thus the seed is planted in a gay teenager’s mind for a lifelong dream: to write the first gay autobiography ever. A masterpiece, which, through steadily-progressing social acceptance – and despite some brief softcore erotic scenes – will join the literary cannon in middle-American high schools.

Thelma takes on ‘Big Queen Country’

Being in a relationship can sometimes feel like being strapped down to a medieval torture…

Stuff Gay People Like: Stories about insecure women

Deep inside every gay man is a starry-eyed young girl, obsessing over whether she is…

Come out come out wherever you are!

I was twenty years old when I finally came out. I’d been stuffing my gay…

Stuff Gay People Like: Being contrarian

To a gay person, groups of people in complete agreement are scary. It’s what happens…

Cowboys and Queens: not as different as you think!

An up-and-coming young drag queen recently emailed me wanting the secret to my success. What…

Living the drag queen dream

I am living the dream. Lucy Ricardo’s dream, that is. Portia Potty, one of my fellow…