7 Intimacy Tips to Keep Long-Term Relationships Healthy
What rates highest in a long-term relationship? Passion is important, certainly, but intimacy rates highest. Intimacy is the key to a happy and healthy long term relationship. Relationship intimacy requires a strong physical and emotional connection. When a relationship lacks intimacy, it can be difficult to maintain. If a level of connection…
How Same-Sex Couples Can Strengthen Their Relationships
There is a fallacy that somehow lgbtq+ relationships are different than straight relationships. But, whether gay, straight, trans or any other combination, when two people come together to date or to get serious, they face the same highs and lows that surface in any relationship. What exactly does it take…
7 Relationship Tips for Gay Couples During Quarantine
Whether you’re holed up together or socially distanced, the coronavirus pandemic is likely making things a little, err, rocky. The stress of living through a pandemic is putting relationships to the test. There’s not a single one of us who isn’t dealing with a tremendous amount of stress right now. Work…
These College Track Stars Came Out to Each Other… And Then Fell in Love
This year marks the 50th anniversary since the first pride parade following the 1969 riot at New York City’s Stonewall Inn. Since we’re unable to gather in person this June, Queerty is celebrating pride season with our “Moments of Pride” series. We’re looking back through our archives at stories that have moved…
A Bottom & A VersBttm Give Love A Go In New Series ‘The First’
“What happens when a guy who loves to bottom falls in love with a vers dude who also loves bottoming?” That’s the question asked by the new six-part web series The First. The series was created by Tim Zientek (a writer for Netflix and Sean Hayes’ upcoming gay spy show Q-FORCE) and…
OPINION: Gay Pride For Me Celebrates The Freedom to Enjoy an Open Relationship
I don’t want my relationship with my partner to have to conform to the rules of outdated heteronormative ideas. The very act of being a Queer person is radical. Who we love and who we have sex with are acts of political defiance. Being visible, being proud, refusing to hide…
Chemistry & Compatibility: 7 Ways to Tell if Someone is the Right Match for You
Both chemistry and compatibility are crucial for the survival and quality of our romantic relationships. And it can be downright catastrophic to mistake the two — it can be the reason long-term relationships fizzle and why, try as you might, others may never make it beyond the bedroom. Every person…
These Two Men Had to Go Into Lockdown Together—Now They’re Boyfriends
A lot of stories have been coming out about the current, ongoing global pandemic that is affecting millions of people, and while most of them are sad and somber, there have been some good, positive things that have come from the need for quarantining and social-distancing. Like this gay couple’s super cute,…
When Turning 30 Means You’re Into Guys *and* Their Dads
For one Reddit user, entering his 30s coincided with finding himself attracted to two generations of dudes. “Turning 30 means still being attracted to 23-year-olds, but you also wouldn’t say no to their dad,” the Redditor recently observed. “Something must have happened in the last year where 40-something dads have become…
Perez Hilton Can’t Find a Date, Claims “The Overwhelming Majority of Gay Men Don’t Like Me”
Perez Hilton is once again opening up about his dating life–or lack thereof–in a new podcast interview. Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavanderria, made a reputation for himself as a celebrity blogger, often relishing in star scandals, defacing pictures of famous actors, or implying that they’re gay. Now, as a…
5 Tips on Developing and Maintaining a Successful Intimate Relationship
Ah, the age-old question of how to keep the spark, love, and intimacy alive in a relationship. Romantic love is characterized by feelings of closeness, passion, and sexual attraction, along with a commitment to one another and your relationship. Compassionate love is characterized by mutual respect, affection, and trust. But…
Black Gay Couples Share the Love
Black. Gay. Men. When you think of this combination, it’s often in a negative connotation. It’s rare to think of a gay black man in a stable, loving relationship. Gay black men are often associated with promiscuity or on the down low. That’s due in part because gay and bisexual…