Results for: the real l word
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Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex
“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
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What If “When Harry Met Sally” Was a Feminist Lesbian Love Story? Emily Hashimoto Has the Answer with “A World Between”
“The trajectory with their partner or ex-partner and or friend or whoever is not linear; it’s, for some women, this big zig zagging: friends for five years, then date for ten years and then maybe be enemies for two years, and then you’re friends again… I felt like we don’t always see that in love stories.”
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Megan Falley’s “Drive Here and Devastate Me” Is a Love Letter to the Queer Community
Drive Here and Devastate Me, queer femme author Megan Falley’s fourth collection of poetry, is a love letter to the queer community. We talked with Megan about her writing process, femme invisibility, body politics, and of course, love.
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Patricia Velásquez, Gay Latina Supermodel, Wants You To Live Your Truths: The Autostraddle Interview
The Venezuelan supermodel, actress and activist talks about her new memoir, coming out now vs. then, inspiring gay Latinas, the kinds of pastries she brought Sandra Bernhard years ago and working on set of The L Word.
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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
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Read A F*cking Book: Denice Bourbon’s “Cheers!” Is All Booze, Burlesque, and Big Dreams
“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”
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Autostraddle Book Club: Emily Answers Your “Cameron Post” Questions and We Throw A Feelings-Fest
emily m. danforth answers 36 of your questions about “Cameron Post” and then we’re all gonna talk about the book!
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Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”