This week’s Extra! Extra! returns with some LGBTQ+ news from both sides of the Atlantic; an update on the COVID-19 pandemic, the havoc it’s wreaking in so many areas of life and the vaccine arms race; and rapidly deteriorating situations the world over.
Welcome to Home Alone for the Holigays! Where our writers welcome you to spend the day with them virtually and live-tweet one of their favorite holiday films. Come kick it with Dani, watch Black Christmas and have a mocktail or two.
I ship Zendaya’s Rue and Hunter Schafer’s Jules like some people shipped Brittana.
“Where is the lesbian dog rep?” “Courtney! You have a cat!”
“THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT, DO NOT PUT THE BOILING HOT TEA BAGS ON YOUR EYELIDS!!!” Queer advice on breaking up with someone over social distancing opinions as well as advice on pressure from friends to hang out in-person instead of staying home (during this here pandemic), returning to writing after a betrayal, recovering from a good cry, and more!
Ding Dong! The Witch (Might Be) Dead! Also: some judgement free advice on how to keep everyone around you safe if you traveled home last week for Thanksgiving, and mourning all of our “almost” romantic relationships.
Special? Of course she was special. She was their partner, their most precious relationship, their lover of nearly ten years, their most trusted confidant. She smelled like a combination of lavender and musk, with this particular tenderness that still made Bennett’s knees weak and that growl start to build deep in their body.
The word of the year is… depends on who you ask. Plus, being very gay online, a trans-only writing class, getting back into journalling and more.
Supposedly, folks who go together flow together. But does the science of period syncing hold up?
“Does this place ever stop being weird?!?”
She ran a progressive campaign for Queens DA that put New York’s establishment on notice, and now has NYC Council in sight. “It’s not about good people or bad people, it’s just about people. We need to divest from policing and incarceration and invest in the true sources of safety.”
We are all tangled, delicious mysteries, and Sagittarius wants us to both enjoy all that we do not understand about ourselves and take the space we need to investigate and consider, to find joy in flexibility, to wander and dream and transform.
Your first look at Euphoria’s special episode; you might be mad about it, but you and every gay sure did watch Happiest Season; Starfire’s goth lesbian daughter; Olivia Coleman making a jolly threat to drive Gillian Anderson off a cliff on the set of The Crown; and more!
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Well hello most glorious day, Happy Birthday Janelle Monáe!! Also, honestly, we don’t care if it’s sponson if Sarah Paulson and Niecy Nash are going to keep being this cute at it — and somehow Janet Mock personally hired the sun to bless her thigh.
“ARE YOU F*CKING WITH ME AGAIN???”
Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.
December on HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime has everything: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Euphoria special, troubled girls stranded on a desert island and so much more.
It’s doubly oppressive that we’re denied care and then left to fulfill the care needs of each other with our own depleted resources. Transantagonism is a global pandemic of indifference and hatred – but there’s no vaccine coming. If you were looking for answers, they aren’t here. If you want to ponder the nuance and difficulty of care, though – dive into Trans Care.
Elliot Page is transgender and we’re so excited for him and all of us!
Breaking up with someone does not make you an asshole.
