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Book Features Pop Culture Fix

Non-Binary Actor Alyson Stoner Hopes Their Memoir Is the Last of Its Kind

Alyson Stoner’s new memoir, Natalie Morales playing Claire Danes’ ex-wife, Mae Martin in a new thriller series, The Beaches’ new single Lesbian of the Year, and more!

Valerie Anne August 19, 2025 1 Comment
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Book Features First Person

What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?

Lately, I’ve been obsessing over the concept of queer generational trauma: the pain passed down to us from our ancestors, which we bequeath in turn to those who come after us.

Charlie Jane Anders August 7, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features LGBT History

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that built the community we hold so dear.

Riese August 4, 2025 7 Comments
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Book Features

Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

“The ‘hot’ in Hot Girls with Balls is that it’s a given our protagonists are extremely beautiful.”

Drew Burnett Gregory July 4, 2025 1 Comment
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Book Features The L Word

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.”

Kate & Leisha June 4, 2025 2 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Stef Rubino May 27, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Emma Cieslik May 22, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 20, 2025 9 Comments
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Book Features Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.

Riese May 19, 2025 9 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 19, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 26, 2025 4 Comments
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Book Features

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.

Kristin April 9, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features

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?

Drew Burnett Gregory April 8, 2025 10 Comments
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Book Features Movie Features

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.

Stef Rubino April 8, 2025 2 Comments
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Book Features

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.”

Elyssa Maxx Goodman March 26, 2025 3 Comments
Kristen Arnett interview: a close up author photo of Kristen
Book Features

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?”

Drew Burnett Gregory March 11, 2025 3 Comments
THE SHUTOUTS by Gabrielle Korn
Book Features

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.”

Riese February 17, 2025
Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
Book Features

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.

Christina Cooke January 28, 2025
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Book Features LGBT History

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.

Lauren Herold January 9, 2025 8 Comments
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Book Features Travel

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.

Kristen Arnett January 7, 2025 6 Comments
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