Top Tips for the First Date

]Blog – Qutie Ah, the excitement of a budding relationship. You met a total #Qutie and after hitting it off online (and using our video verification features to ensure you’re safe), you’ve finally nailed down a place and time to meet your potential match!  Maybe you decided to meet up at a Starbucks or a

Healthy Fighting for Queer Couples

]Blog – Qutie By Katy Ray “Life is good when the love is great, but great love takes work”. That’s the motto of Dr. Jennelle, of the Big Change of Heart podcast and relationship community. Dr. Jennelle is a PhD Psychologist and relationship adviser, and she’s ready to share some words of wisdom with the

Pamela Coleman Smith: the Artist Behind Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck

Afterellen While we can’t definitively know historical figures’ sexual orientations, Pamela Coleman Smith was likely a lesbian. Coleman Smith and her companion of forty years, spiritualist Nora Lake, socialized with lesbian and bisexual women during the first half of the 1900s. Coleman Smith was never linked to a man. Bisexual suffragist Edith “Edy” Craig was

Supporting Our Detransitioned Sisters on #DetransAwarenessDay

Afterellen My sisters, did you know Friday March 12th was #DetransAwarenessDay? If you didn’t, now you do! But what is it exactly? The day was created to break down the stigma around detransition. It’s also a great way to let those who have detransitioned know they’re not alone.  But one key reason for this day

EU declares itself an LGBT+ ‘Freedom Zone’

EILE Magazine The European Parliament voted to declare the European Union an ‘LGBTIQ Freedom Zone’, as Poland plans to bar same-sex couples from adopting. The European Union’s parliament symbolically declared the bloc an ‘LGBTIQ Freedom Zone’ on Thursday, in its latest move to censure Hungary and Poland, for their curbs on LGBT+ rights. More than