Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Sa’iyda is a writer and mom who lives in LA with her partner, son and 3 adorable, albeit very extra animals. She has yet to meet a chocolate chip cookie she doesn’t like, spends her free time (lol) reading as many queer romances as she can, and has spent the better part of her life obsessed with late 90s pop culture.

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Sai and her best friend, against a backdrop of a parlour

friendship

Love Is the Last Rainbow Cookie

Whenever my best friend comes to visit, she brings me a container of rainbow cookies.

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Apr 30, 2025

lgbt book reviews

Jasmine Guillory’s First Sapphic Romance ‘Flirting Lessons’ Is a Fun Take on a Classic Trope

Overall, Flirting Lessons is about what happens when you try to overcome what other people think about you.

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Apr 28, 2025

lgbt book reviews

Sapphic Romance Novel ‘Cover Story’ Brings Us Back to 2005, When It Was Much Harder To Be Out and Famous

What would things have looked like if we got openly queer Kristen Stewart from the beginning of the Twilight franchise?

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Mar 31, 2025

Red for Revolution: A collage with the face cut of one Black woman looking up at another Black woman with a crumbled up piece of sheet music to the side.

podcasts

Narrative Podcast ‘Red for Revolution’ Is a Love Letter to Black Queer Women

Jordan Hull and Jennifer Beals reunite as mother and daughter in this narrative podcast about intergenerational Black queer connection.

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Mar 25, 2025

Harlem season three: Eva and Tye sit across from each other at a restaurant.

tv reviews

The Final Season of ‘Harlem’ Gave Its Characters Happy New Beginnings

With a rushed marriage proposal and the return of a favorite character, Harlem comes to its premature end.

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Feb 24, 2025

lgbt book reviews

There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World

The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.

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Feb 7, 2025

Cruel Intentions kiss between Cecile and Kathryn

first person

My First Makeout Was Reenacting the Kissing Scene From ‘Cruel Intentions’

At 17, my lack of kissing was a sensitive subject for me. It wasn’t for lack of trying.

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Jan 16, 2025

movie reviews

I Watched ‘The Holiday Junkie’ With My Wife and It Was Sweeter Than a Peppermint Latte

Jennifer Love Hewitt’s latest Lifetime Christmas movie has a lesbian best friend who wears shoes on the bed.

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Dec 23, 2024

holigays

A Gift Guide for Your Favorite Iced Coffee Loving Queer

I have been known to don a pair of fingerless gloves just to have a better grip on the freezing cold plastic cup from my favorite coffee place that holds…

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Dec 6, 2024

Our Dad Danielle documentary interview: Danielle smiles wearing sunglasses in a pool

movie features

New Documentary ‘Our Dad, Danielle’ Didn’t Know How Necessary It Would Become

“I came out as a trans woman in Texas during the age of Trump. For me, there was no stealth coming out. I’m a big, ugly old broad and there’s…

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Dec 3, 2024

music

Don’t Leave Joy Oladokun Out of the Conversation About the Queer Musician Boom

“Being a Black woman, a queer artist in this moment; it cost me my time. It cost me my hair, moments with family.”

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Oct 25, 2024

Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova from TATU kiss each other during a concert, 3 October 2002, in Lodz, Poland. The Russian duo TATU are coming to the UK for a series of concerts in London and Manchester in May 2003. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

music

Remember When Russian Pop Duo t.A.T.u Pretended To Be Lesbians?

“From the minute “All the Things She Said” hit the airwaves, there had been rumblings that the girls in t.A.T.u. weren’t actually lesbians. I mean, it makes sense; they were…

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Oct 10, 2024

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“Everyone’s Gay!” Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson on Their Queer Period Film ‘Hedda’

Lesbian Poet Staceyann Chin Will Not Be Silent

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Love Is the Last Rainbow Cookie

Jasmine Guillory’s First Sapphic Romance ‘Flirting Lessons’ Is a Fun Take on a Classic Trope

Sapphic Romance Novel ‘Cover Story’ Brings Us Back to 2005, When It Was Much Harder To Be Out and Famous

Narrative Podcast ‘Red for Revolution’ Is a Love Letter to Black Queer Women

The Final Season of ‘Harlem’ Gave Its Characters Happy New Beginnings

There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World

My First Makeout Was Reenacting the Kissing Scene From ‘Cruel Intentions’

I Watched ‘The Holiday Junkie’ With My Wife and It Was Sweeter Than a Peppermint Latte

A Gift Guide for Your Favorite Iced Coffee Loving Queer

New Documentary ‘Our Dad, Danielle’ Didn’t Know How Necessary It Would Become

Don’t Leave Joy Oladokun Out of the Conversation About the Queer Musician Boom

Remember When Russian Pop Duo t.A.T.u Pretended To Be Lesbians?

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“Everyone’s Gay!” Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson on Their Queer Period Film ‘Hedda’

Lesbian Poet Staceyann Chin Will Not Be Silent

Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

“Everyone’s Gay!” Nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson on Their Queer Period Film ‘Hedda’

Lesbian Poet Staceyann Chin Will Not Be Silent

Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

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