Gay and single? Say it on your t-shirt: American clothes brand will help you get picked up

by Petit Fours

You can sometimes guess if a woman is gay from her clothes, but it’s a risky game, particularly with hipsters being like they are.. But an enterprising American called Jacqui wants to take the strain off our gaydar and make it all much easier to pinpoint the gays. Not quite in a “Nobody knows I’m a Lesbian” way but along the same lines. Just with subtler t-shirt design.
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Why Gay People Love the Internet: four reasons

by Petit Fours

Lesbian and gay people are more likely to be on social networks and more likely to read blogs than their straight counterparts, according to a survey out last week, which confirmed my long-held suspicions about how the internet is the natural medium for gay. Gays are consistently more likely to be on all the main social networks and are more likely to read blogs of all sorts. … Continue Reading

But I could have sworn she was…

by Sticky Toffee Pudding

Gay Radar, I find, can be a funny old thing. That hidden ability to sense out a person’s sexuality often with just one glance is considered a staple skill of any lesbian worth her salt. Generally speaking you either have it or you don’t. Unfortunately in my experience, I’ve often found my Gay Radar generating nothing but static - shock horror I know! But when it comes to the ladies I’ve always found it a tad difficult to tell whether or not that adorable smile is mere politeness, or an actual sign of flirtation. … Continue Reading

Nailing It

by Devil’s Food Cake

It’s possibly one of the best scenes from a lesbian film ever. Bound‘s climactic moment: Jennifer Tilly seducing Gina Gershon slowly and sensuously up on that screen, their bodies intertwined and writhing as she goes in for the kill. And then suddenly, what should have been one of the hottest scenes known to mankind goes horribly, horribly wrong for me – because all I can think about is how nobody should be doing any fucking on that screen, not with nails that bloody long. … Continue Reading

Gaydar: friend or foe?

…and the reason you’ll never sign out for good

by Florentine

You know the score.  Getting measured for your first bra by the alarmingly clammy-handed ladies at M&S, asking mum for permission to boldly put razor to barely hairy teenage leg, and sitting petrified on a toilet for the best part of an hour, desperately clawing enough courage to declare the red-painted beginnings of womanhood to your mum/dad/second cousin/mentally imbalanced home economics teacher (delete as appropriate).  Rites of passage: traumatising girls across the land since 1864 – or thereabouts. … Continue Reading