Results for: be the change
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Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds
In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.
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Gay Me Up, Scotty: How Star Trek Failed To Boldly Go There
In addition to perhaps the most egregious split infinitive in the history of the written word, Star Trek, which celebrates its 44th anniversary this week, also committed crimes against its gay fans: it ignored them.
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The Teal Mask Is a Sweet, Shiny Addition to Pokémon Scarlet & Violet
The Teal Mask builds on the sweetness that the base game gave us in all our main character stories last time around.
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From Birdetta to Flea: 12 Trans Video Game Characters From the 80’s and 90’s
Whether we’re claiming a beloved, aspirational character or simply being mocked, the following characters are proof we’ve always been in the vast world of gaming.
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Yep, You Can Be Gay and/or Trans and/or Nonbinary in “Baldur’s Gate 3”
There’s even gay sex scenes, like every good pen-and-paper D&D game.
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 3: Charlie X (or “Babysitting A Psychic Teenage Brat In Space”)
“It seems that Charlie can control other people’s behavior to an extent. I am sure this ability will make him an irritating prat throughout the episode.”
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This List of 73 Sexy Black Female Scientists Calls Out STEM’s Exclusion of Black Women
I’m so over lists reinforcing the idea that a women’s primary value is as an aesthetic object — but actually, I think McMullen has successfully combated that here. Yes, these women are being described as “sexy,” but it’s an inclusive, stereotype-busting sexy.
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Even At Highest Level, STEM’s Leaky Pipeline Failing Women and Black People
Among STEM Ph.D. holders, women and black people are leaving the field in disproportionate numbers. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots: sexism and racism strike again, to the detriment of everyone.
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8 Queer Nerd Hobbies and How to Get Into Them
There’s never been a better time to be a gay geek!
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 4: Where No Man Has Gone Before
You know, if I’m ever trapped on a far-off planet with a crazed, god-like megalomaniac, I want Spock on my team!
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The Journal-Planner That Turned My Real Life Into a Video Game
The Hero’s Journal is more about the vibes, like cozy fantasy, than it is about actually making it to Mordor with a cursed ring in your pocket and hurling it into a fiery doom.
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My Sci-Fi Girl Summer, Explained
It was a lot like coming out later in life, but this time instead of going to a bunch of lesbian parties and hooking up with strangers, I’m staying up until 4 a.m. Googling shit like “how is Loki still alive.”
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9 of the Best Queer Video Games of 2023
Adventure games, farming sims, and even a musical! Check out this list of some of the best — and queerest — games of 2023.
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Into the Woods: Apps for Camping
How can I resist the plethora of outdoorsy camping apps out there? I can’t. I can’t resist.
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Dungeons and Drag Queens Abound in “Gayblade,” a 90s Game You Can Play for Free
Instead of getting shields for defense, you get condoms or aprons. And instead of swords and other classic weapons, there’s mace, hair dryers, or press-on nails to fight with.
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“Critical Role” Campaign 3 is Gayer Than Ever
Nic and Valerie discuss how Imogen and Laudna finally kissed, and all the other gay goings-on of Critical Role’s third campaign.
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Drawn to Comics: “Dating a Trans Person Changed My Partner’s Life” Starts a Good Discussion About Trans Life and Love
“The joy these people are feeling for having found happy, loving and affirming relationships is radiating off of the page. These are clearly trans people who have found happiness with who they are and where they are in life, and the art goes a long, long way to show that.”
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Lesbian Love Rolled a Natural 20 on Last Week’s “Critical Role”
Beau and Yasha finally went on their long-awaited date and it was gayer than we could have dreamed.
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How Solace, the Transition App Designed by a Trans Woman, Will Lifehack Your Gender Transition
Evergreen State tech entrepreneur Robbi Katherine Anthony is one of the people hoping to solve the struggles that exist for transgender individuals in the 21st century. Billed as the gender transition app, her company Solace was launched at last year’s LGBTQIA Hackathon in Austin, Tex.
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Duolingo is Gay! And It Could Be Gayer!
Story #6 titled “Honeymoon” is very gay. Not with a Disney-style exclusively gay moment, but with some actual textual ‘Le mot L’ dyke drama.