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Raquel Willis and the Gender Liberation Movement
Politics + Activism

Gender Liberation Movement Wants To Create an Antidote to Project 25

“We’re building a people’s movement that champions bodily autonomy and self-determination, collectivism, and the pursuit of fulfillment,” says Eliel Cruz, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement.

Stef Rubino March 31, 2025 2 Comments
Cover Story by Celia Laskey
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?

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 31, 2025
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Theater

Staying Up All Night With Kathryn Gallagher

Kathryn Gallgher talks about starring in the new play All Nighter, written by her best friend, and co-starring Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Alyah Chanelle Scott.

Rendy Jones March 31, 2025 1 Comment
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Quizzes

Quiz: What Lesbian Kitchen Tool Are You?

Haven’t you always wondered what lesbian kitchen appliance you are?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 30, 2025 15 Comments
Lexi and her mom pose on the runway together in Valentine's Day looks
TV Show Recaps

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Episode 1713 Recap: Family Therapy

For years, Ru has been working toward a season where he could get all the queens’ parents to show up for a makeover challenge. He’s finally done it. But at what cost?

Drew Burnett Gregory March 29, 2025 2 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Watch Chappell Roan Take an Autostraddle Quiz and Talk About Dinosaurs

Yesterday, Call Her Daddy released a bonus video of Chappell Roan taking our quiz while maintaining a healthy dose of skepticism. Her final result will not surprise, but the journey is a real delight.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 28, 2025 8 Comments
The poster with all the characters from The White Lotus s3
TV Feature

How Happy Could I Make These ‘White Lotus’ Characters?

*airhorn* Did you hear that? That’s the sound of the wife horn, and it is going off! This is such a no-brainer that I am kind of gesturing at the image above like I’ve done all I need to do?

Christina Tucker March 28, 2025 2 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Yellowjackets Episode 308 Recap: Dig Me Out

Shauna Shipman has officially gone off the rails (and I love it).

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 28, 2025 50 Comments
One image shows people hanging out together at a party/intimate space, another shows someone lying facedown and sort of melting out of an open window space.
AF+

I’m Afraid I Missed the Best Years of My Life

Your twenties weren’t carefree or slutty — are you too old to have fun now? Also, a reader’s unrequited high school crush is making them miserable.

the team March 28, 2025 4 Comments
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Theater

Trans Comedians and Theatre Makers Create J.K. Rowling Counter-Programming

“It’s really a choose your own adventure. You could just go see really great comedy. You could go see these tiny independent solo shows. There’s a reading of A Streetcar Named Desire with Alexandra Billings and Brian Michael Smith and Rain Valdez.”

Gabe Dunn March 28, 2025 1 Comment
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AF+ Movie Features

Out the Movies: ‘Castration Movie’ and the Fallacy of Group Shame

That monologue from The White Lotus, a Torrey Peters novella, and Louise Weard’s lo-fi epic reveal who gets to be trans.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 27, 2025 2 Comments
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Money + Work

We’re Right Here: Finding Connection in My Community of Sex Workers

Whenever I think of the sex workers I befriended, the thing that always struck me is how different we all are.

Summer Tao March 27, 2025 2 Comments
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Health

What I Wish I Knew About Getting a Hysterectomy as a Trans Man

Surgery is allowed to suck, even when it’s a surgery that you really wanted.

Max Gross March 27, 2025 8 Comments
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Culture

Twenty-Five Years In, Ginger’s Bar Welcomes a New Generation of Queers

Reporting from inside Ginger’s big birthday celebration in Brooklyn and a look at how the bar has evolved through the years.

Malavika Kannan March 27, 2025 3 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Hannah Einbinder Comes for Climate Change, CEOs, Capitalism, and Genocide in Incredible Speech

You’re going to want to watch the entirety of Hannah Einbinder’s speech accepting the HRC’s Visibility Award.

Christina Tucker March 26, 2025 1 Comment
Chappell Roan talking on the Call Her Daddy podcast
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Chappell Roan Is Very in Love With Her Girlfriend Who She Has Been Dating Since Before She Blew Up

Chappell Roan also discussed her preference of a wand over a rabbit and more in the podcast appearance.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 26, 2025 12 Comments
Bob the Drag Queen Harriet Tubman Live in Concert: a photo of Bob next to a photo of the book cover
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
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Music

Japanese Breakfast’s Latest Album Solidifies Michelle Zauner As the Poet Laureate of Sadness

Rarely does sadness sound this big, instrumentally, on an album with the kind of indie-pop, alt-country, folk-rock twists this one has, and even more rarely do we get an album so clear in its purpose.

Stef Rubino March 25, 2025
Gender

‘Can Trans Men Be Butches?’

And what makes a butch, butch?

Summer Tao March 25, 2025 12 Comments
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.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 25, 2025 1 Comment
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