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8 Unique Lgbtq Dating Problems

2018

There are a number of things those in the LGBTQ community endure during their time on the dating scene. In fact, we have 8 of them listed below. Before you read on, keep in mind that the LGBTQ community is diverse and a few of these problems are directed more to some than they are to others.

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Gay Breakups Are Better, and Here’s Why

The LGBTQ community is known for its emphasis on tolerance, but one of our progressive dating phenomena is particularly worth praising and sharing. It’s quite common to become friends with exes.

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Jill Gutowitz
2018
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The Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything From Heartthrob to Heartbreak

In The Lesbian Love Companion, Marny Hall, Ph.D., a psychotherapist with twenty years’ experience counseling lesbian couples, explores and celebrates lesbian relationships in all their complexity—and humor.

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Marny Hall
1998
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The Queer Art of Divorce

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

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Haley Mlotek
2021
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Celebrating My (Gay) Divorce

Marriage equality means divorce equality—and I feel pride, as well as sadness, about my split from my husband.

Article
Steven Petrow
2019
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The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny and Other Rhythms

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Joann Loulan, Sherry Thomas
1990
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Lesbian Sex

This book was conceived in order to create a body of knowledge about lesbian sexuality. Change, pleasure, and responsibility are key words in the examination of this subject. The core of the book is the homework section, including specific sexual exercises "designed to help you.

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Joann Loulan
1984
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Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other

Drawing on her own and others' experiences, Loulan explores what it means to be lesbian: how we live our lives and how we want to live our lives - with passion - "passion is not only about sex, but about the life force that energizes it.

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JoAnn Loulan
1987
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Female Husbands: A Trans History

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers.

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Jen Manion
2025
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Sex, Intimacy, and Being Gay

Sex seems central to intimate and romantic relationships. If it is a means of intimate communication, and communication is the secret to a lasting and healthy relationship, why don’t we gay men talk about it that way more often?

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J Nelson Aviance
2014
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Small Daily Struggles Make LGBT People Feel Like They Have to Hide

One big surprise (to straight people at least) is that over two thirds of LGBT people avoid holding hands in public.

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Christine Jackson-Taylor
2018
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LGBTQIA Relationships