Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig Go Deep Into The L Word’s Most Legendary Sex Scenes
“It was our way of subverting expectation, showing that lesbians are different kinds of people with their own relationship dynamics, even in the bedroom.”
The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion
We all know that this sports issue has nothing to do with sports, and it has nothing to do with protecting female athletes. This topic has been a roundabout way to erode rights for transgender people.
Charlie Claire Burgess Understands Why You Might Hate Religion
In their new book Queer Devotion, Charlie Claire Burgess joins a robust tradition of queer and trans people reclaiming religious symbolism for ourselves.
Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful
Alison Bechdel talks fame, privilege, and returning to old characters for her new work of autofiction.
Author Taylor Jenkins Reid Comes Out As Bisexual, Just Like Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is one of the most successful sapphic novels of all time — and with her queer space thriller “Atmosphere” debuting this June, Reid has come out as bisexual.
Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive
Jennifer Beals has put together the ultimate walk down sapphic memory lane with the release of The L Word: A Photographic Journal, a gay tome featuring over 400 candid photographs taken by Beals on the set and behind the scenes.
It’s Independent Bookstore Day, So Go Buy Some Gay Books
This year, Independent Bookstore Day feels especially important and fraught, as mega-retailer Amazon decided to throw one of its book sales at the same time.
How Podcasters Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Navigated Their Big Divorce Announcement
Read an exclusive excerpt about Kristin and Jenny’s divorce, followed by a clip from the audiobook.
The Ghostwriting Drama Surrounding Straight Influencer Tinx’s Lesbian Romance Novel, Explained
Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?
The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason
In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers — including Cheryl Dunye, Karyn Kusama, and Isabel Sandoval — about their work, and their experiences in the film industry.
Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke
“The truth is people who fight for you to have liberty, they fight for you to be a goofy bitch, too.”
Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett
“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”
Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future
“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying.”
Read an Excerpt From ‘Broughtupsy’, a Queer Jamaican Diaspora Novel
Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.
A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer
Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.
We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey Want To Read Books and Eat Snacks With You
We talked to Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig about Allstora’s PANTS Pod book club and its mission to uplift queer authors, connect with pod listeners and read some really good lesbian books.
20 Dorothy Allison Quotes I Think About All The Time
“Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together — sex and violence, love and hatred.”
Dorothy Allison, Lesbian and Feminist Writer and Activist, Has Died. We Must Keep Learning From Her Life’s Work and ‘Remake the World’
Dorothy Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer earlier this week. Some of my favorite teachers in the world are people I’ve never shared a classroom with, and Allison is undoubtedly one of them.
Things I Read That I Love #339: Nerd Clusters, Love Is Blind, Competitive Cheerleading, the Free Returns Industry and More
Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens, the collapse of self-worth in the digital age, the competitive cheerleading monopoly and more!