Results for: meet up
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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The Polyamorous Devils of “Couple to Throuple” Are Ready to Blow Up Gender Norms
Peacock’s polyamorous dating show Couple to Throuple got two things right: Ash and Maximo.
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Straddler On The Mountain: Brooklyn
Say hi to Brooklyn – she’s a campership winner Texan trans* girl who spoke openly and honestly about her unsupportive family, being homeless and the importance of having a loving community to fall back on.
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Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
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Bodybuilding Icon Bev Francis Reveals Real World Behind ‘Love Lies Bleeding’
“It’s pretty simple. I wanted to win. That’s pretty much it, I wanted to be Ms. Olympia.”
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Packing for A-Camp with DeAnne Smith
“I’m still not sure how any of it happens.”
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“I Needed To Create Something To Save Myself… That’s What I’ve Done”
“Ain’t nobody trying to slow down! Life is fun. Keep doing it.”
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Murray Hill on “Somebody Somewhere” and His Decades-Long Career in Showbiz
“To me, showbiz means the spotlight is on you. And not only is the spotlight on you, but you’re feeling the light. You’re feeling the light and then you’re giving the light.”
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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
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“There’s Nothing I Can’t Do”: Harlem’s Jerrie Johnson on Tye’s Self-Discovery and Breaking the Binary
“This binary is so new and so American and so beneficial to the patriarchy and white supremacy.”
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Straddler On The Mountain: Mel
Mel won the Kipper Clothiers campership this time around, and you’ll know why when you see her amazing style. A third-time camper and longtime reader, she talks about Toronto, working at a hotel, her Filipino family, and (duh) A-Camp.
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The L Word: Generation Q’s Jordan Hull on the “Emancipation of Angie”
“She starts off so strong. She’s like, ‘Hey, I’m going to be in my ho era. This is going to be amazing.’ And then meets one person, and has a breakdown about what to do about it.”
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Peppermint on Her New Comedy Special, Trans Dating, and the Best of New York Drag
“Audiences need more trans comics. There certainly are a handful of well-known trans comics, but we need more.”
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Todd Haynes on “May December,” Queer Community, and Making Art in a Vile World
“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the way we look at the world and stand outside certain norms.”
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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
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Queer Indigenous Musician Black Belt Eagle Scout Talks “The Land, The Water, The Sky”
If you’ve never listened to Black Belt Eagle Scout before, then 1. you should, and 2. you should be prepared for the sort of rapturous experience of listening to each song.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
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Mae Martin on “Sap,” Camping, and Finding Queer Community
“Moose are kind of like the hippos of the land. They’re aggressive. They run really fast.”
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Rowan Blanchard on Not Labeling Our Gay Comedies, Impressing Crushes, and Hulu’s “Crush”
“Crush being gay was way less important to me than it being funny.”
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Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”