Sometimes you just gotta make out with and choke out someone in a convenience store, you know?

“I think the thing that’s hot about transmasc people is there’s no encouragement to be transmasc. In order to have our identity, we have to be as in touch with our real selves as possible.”

Join me on this wet ride to Horny Jail.

“Britney is very often being homo-erotic with herself but you know what? It’s allowed. Be Free.”

Every single song on this album makes me want to throw on a puffy prom dress and hysterically dance around.

Age of Pleasure has the aesthetics of summer heat and sweaty queer bodies, but the tour covers September and October! And “fall queer beach party” aesthetic is just so f*cking hard!

Pride means owning our horniness!

A new generation of rap girls transforming the genre that reflect the sounds and moments of today.

Bikini Kill opened a door for me, a door that has stayed open ever since.

Some of these are technically not lead singles from the albums they came from, but songs that I felt were just as good as those that got more shine.

It feels like fingertips brushing down a jaw or a back; pure seduction.

The leftover swirls of emotion from the sheer queerness of the event, of the attendees, of the joy, are still sustaining me, even as Pride month comes to a close.

All of the artists on this playlist have less than 10,000 monthly listeners, with many having less than 100 in total.

It’s not hard to listen to Black queer & trans folks and get this shit correct.

Sexual freedom can also just be about freedom in general, at least for one night, in a special space.

Trying to get sober was like pulling teeth.

The lyric “someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow” is very Sappho if you know what I mean. I’ll take any opportunity to find the dyke root in any piece of media, so why not rank some holiday classics by how much lesbian energy they exude?

Mental health was a major theme this year lyrically, as were some of the topics that can never be approached too many times — being gay, being in love, breaking up, struggling with identity, struggling with adulthood, struggling with self-sabotage.

This was a great year for LGBTQ music and my gay little heart.

This is someone showing their rejection of the oftentimes traumatizing cishet Christian ideals many young Black queers are currently being taught. We live for anything that will shorten (or make obsolete) their pain so they can live bolder happier lives.