These podcasts, while not explicitly queer, often feel pretty queer and feature queer voices.
The Heart Radio: the Heatwave and Audio Smut series If I could wish one thing from this blog, it would be that Mae Winters posted more often and wrote advice articles even when the questions are not pouring in.
Mae Winters also features links to other articles about anti-black racism, she can be found in “ Mask Magazine” giving advice for how to find a therapist, and was featured on the queer radio program Pure Pop for Queer Lovers. Followers are writing in about topics such as jealousy, polyamory, sex, anxiety, and relationship dynamics. Questions don’t seem to come in very frequently in the past year that the website has been around, but the website has a lot of potential to grow as it gains popularity. Mae Winters’ advice is always thoughtful, educational, and on point. Sommer” or a “Dear Abby” column, readers can write in to Mae Winters anonymously and ask any question their heart desires. This blog, which is done in the fashion of a “Dr. Mae Winters Advice: Politics, Sex, & More … So I went on a search for the best Queer blogs on sex and relationships. With DIY online magazines, blogs, and podcasts practically anyone can put their opinions and advice out for the everyone to see. Where were those relationship stories? Where was the advice for us Queers out there? Those of us who grew up in the pre-internet era, during the 80’s and 90’s we were limited to a predominantly white, heteronormative, and very vanilla set of opinions and experiences regarding sex and relationships produced and delivered by mainstream media. I wanted to hear the voices from my community: gender queers, lesbians, butches, Trans men and Trans women. Now, you may think, “What’s the difference right? Straight or gay, relationships are all the same.” But what I was missing was the feeling of relatability. I found plenty of articles dealing with similar relationship issues to mine but they all had one thing in common: they were written by and for straight people. Hoping to find the words of wisdom or shared experiences that would help me win at my relationship, I searched websites and blogs daily. So I reached out to the internet, as I have many times before.įor the past year that I was struggling in my queer romance my Google searches became more and more frequent. But who could offer me advice about my long term queer polyamorous multicultural relationship? I was severely lacking real life role models.
I wanted to look to my friends for advice. I didn’t realize how much I was lacking queer relationship models until I was suddenly in my 30’s and realizing it was harder than I could have imagined to maintain a loving relationship for more than two years, and I was going on 6 years with my babe. When I was just a little gay teen, I didn’t realize that I was missing out on hearing the voices and opinions of queer people on the topics of sex, love, and relationships. When I was older I traded out my teeny bopper magazines for feminist ones like Bust and Bitch Magazine, and even though they were slightly less boy focused they were still pretty straight, especially back in the 90’s when I was reading them.