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No Filter: Samira Wiley Bought a House, May the Lord Open Up Her Pool
Cara and Ashley Benson are instagram official, Samira Wiley needs a housecleaner, Stef Beatriz is the hottest thing at the pool, everyone is in Taylor Swift’s music video and other dispatches from celebrity lesbian instagram!
“Good Trouble” Episode 201 Recap: Alice Comes Out for Real for Love
Alice comes out in a major way, Joey is changing their pronouns, and Jamal Thompon’s case is finally decided.
Talking With Candy Feit About ‘Cruel To Be Kind,’ Her Photo Project Highlighting Kink and Intimacy
We interviewed photographer Candy Feit about her inspiration, process, and intentions for Cruel To Be Kind, her most recent photography project.
Pop Culture Fix: “GLOW” Season 3 Confirms Its Gayness
New trailers for GLOW and The Handmaid’s Tale, lots of queer actors and writers and directors talking to straight media for Pride, an amazing new musical fantasy project from Dee Rees, renewals for Pose and Queer Eye, and truly enough takes about Taylor Swift already.
If You Haven’t Watched Suranne Jones in “A Touch of Cloth,” Your British Lesbian Education Is Incomplete
Here’s that Gentleman Jack/Caroline Bingley fan fic you’ve been looking for.
Cara Delevingne Confirms her Relationship with Ashley Benson, Sex Benches for Everybody!!!
You will not believe her pet name for Ashley, just trust me on this.
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Girlfriends, Invite Us to Consider Love Might Not Be a Lie???
“Every day I tell myself that I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be loved, I deserve to have a hot girlfriend.”
32 Queer-Owned Shops Selling LGBT T-Shirts To Support This Pride Season
Indie queer stores rarely have the cash-on-hand to make Pride-specific tees, but they’re still loaded with Pride-appropriate tees. Slogans include Lavender Menace, Magic Black Femme, Box Eater, Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist, Queer and Forever Here and SO MUCH MORE!
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 111: Liberally
Cherie wants to give Shane her own hair salon, Jenny wants some bread for toast, Slim Daddy wants Bette and Candace to hook up and we want you to listen right now to the latest greatest episode of “To L and Back”!
“Men in Black: International” Review: Tessa Thompson Wears a Suit, Flirts With Women
Sadly, that’s also pretty much everything that makes Men in Black: International great.
Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Is Back and So Is Shane Doing Shane Things
Summer TV is here and you know what that means: Queen Sugar! Claws! grown-ish! Burden of Truth! And, weirdly, the end of The Bold Type’s third season.
Gentleman Jack’s Finale Was One of the Finest Hours in Lesbian Cinematic History
“Are You Still Talking” was everything I fell in love with and very obviously over-identify with about Anne Lister, framed and filmed inside the kind of aching, sweeping, racing, desperate, tender, pleading, triumphant storyline only the most epic romantic movies about straight people ever are.
15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer Hot Hot Hot
Whether your thing is memoir, fiction, new poetry or YA, there’s definitely something coming out this summer by and/or about queer people that you’re going to want to throw in your bag for the beach, get points for in your library’s summer reading program, or share with that new babe you just started seeing who loves your poetry recs.
Why Do So Many People Have Goodbye Horses as Their Tinder Anthem?
“When I first matched with the “Goodbye Horses” fans and asked them about it one said, “that buffalo bill scene is classic” and the other said, “I LOVE the song.” Then they both ghosted.”
Pop Culture Fix: Pink Hair Don’t Care Megan Rapinoe Won’t Apologize for Being Awesome
Also: A lesbian couple on My Little Pony, Ellen Page says Juno grew up to be a lesbian, that Yorkshire lady of renown, Lena Waithe wants to help you with your wardrobe, there’s still hope for One Day at a Time, Pose Pose Pose Pose, and more!
No Filter: Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey Invite You To “Loud and Proud: Back In The Habit”
Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey take pics at Pride, Evan Rachel Wood got a bisexual towel, Tessa Thompson wore alluring outfits in Marie Claire Magazine and other pressing news from celebrity instagram!
Jonathan Van Ness is Non-Binary: “Queer Eye” Scene-Stealer Comes Out, Is Ready to Educate
It’s exciting to me that he’s still using he/him pronouns. It’s exciting to me that he’s speaking publicly in a way that’s complicated and messy with a fluidity in language to match his fluidity in identity. It’s exciting to me because cis straight people love Queer Eye.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 110: “Luck, Next Time”
Mr. Piddles, I have something to tell you: Dana is gay and Cherie Jaffe wants a change and Kit will take the strawberry smoothie and Jenny is not having a nice time at this dinner party!
“The L Word: Generation Q” Announces Two New Characters, Bette and Tina’s Grown-Up Baby
Over at Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan unveiled an annotated page from a Gen Q script and some details about the new series.