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Why I stopped falling for straight boys

I knew Jake* would leave me from the very first time we kissed. We sat on my bed to the soundtrack of Brooklyn at midnight – a mix between the bass drums of the subway and the melodic humming of taxi cabs that whizzed by. His calloused fingers intertwined with my...

What does it mean when straight men sleep with crossdressing men?

“Girls are too easy to pick up,” admits Max*, a 27-year old New Yorker who works at a startup. “After a while it gets boring.” Don’t get him wrong. He’s into girls. Like, really into them. A serial dater, his last girlfriend was an Asian American who he...