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Queer Fashion

Holiday Party Fashion Shoot: Lady Vengeance Style

“I’m going to talk to you about my favorite things of the moment: looking terrifying (but also festive! Holiday appropriate!) and suits. Also: short hair. I feel like we all may have these things in common, maybe?”

Arabelle Sicardi December 20, 2013 16 Comments
Recipes

Get Baked: Gingerbread Cookie Butter HoliGAY Cake

This cake will impress absolutely everyone you know, making it the perfect dessert for any holiGAY situation. Also in this post: a video of Cara singing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas.”

Vanessa December 20, 2013 32 Comments
First Person

Big Queer Pimples, or How I Learned to Love (or Tolerate) My Acne

“When the doctor said that such and such a treatment was linked to health problems later in life, I didn’t even blink. I’ll hit 50 and keel over? Fine, I don’t care, get rid of these fucking pimples.”

Kate December 20, 2013 70 Comments
Sports

Abby Wambach Makes All-Time Women’s National Team Best XI

Abby Wambach continues to become one of the most decorated queer athletes ever.

Brittani December 20, 2013 5 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #106: I’ve Lost Myself Again And I Feel Unsafe

Topics include Christopher Dorner, Six Feet Under, factory farms, Bed-Sty, quicksand, painkiller addiction, Gretchen Molanenen and moar!

Riese December 20, 2013 10 Comments
TV Feature

Ari Fitz Is Exploding “The Real World”: The Autostraddle Interview

“I represented my community and I think there are a lot of other people in the house that kind of did them and we just did us and I think that’s what makes the show a really good, almost – if I can say this – positive Real World. I think it’s awesome because we’re us and we lived and we cried and we fucked.”

Carmen December 20, 2013 5 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2013: Gifts For The Cyclist Who Has It All

Shiny things for bike lovers that aren’t bicycles or bike accessories, including tiny computers, bottle openers and (vegan!) floggers.

Fikri December 19, 2013 5 Comments
Christmas Sex Toys

Holigay Gift Guide 2013: Choosing the Perfect Vibrator

Whether you’re looking for your first vibrator or your latest, this guide can help!

Ryan Yates December 19, 2013 17 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Homespun Love: Sew a Wearable Guitar

For the big or small wanna-be rocker in your life.

Laura December 19, 2013 8 Comments
Food and Drink

Dear Queer Diary: You Need a Cup of Tea

What I want to talk about is journaling with tea, a practice that has, over the last several years, woven itself firmly into the metaphorical fabric (specifically chambray) of my being.

Maggie December 19, 2013 9 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

22 Kickass Queer Women Who Came Out in 2013

It was quite a year for Team Lezalicious — let’s take a look at the diverse group of ladies who blessed our hearts with their queerness this year. It takes all kinds, after all.

Riese December 19, 2013 79 Comments
Politics + Activism

Mourning Madiba: South African Queers Grapple With An Uncertain Future

The rainbow nation is a country of contradictions and complexities when it comes to its queer citizens, and as LGBT South Africans mourn Mandela they also worry about the future.

Meghan Davidson Ladly December 19, 2013 2 Comments
Gender

Imagining a Better World For Trans Women Survivors Of Domestic Violence

Being a survivor has taught me that resiliency is in the marrow of my bones and with it I can imagine a better world.

Morgan Collado December 19, 2013 16 Comments
Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For 10 Years: My Top Five Most Ridiculous Arguments And You

Throughout the years, my girlfriend and I have mastered the ancient art of “when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em” popularized by Kenny Rogers, though it took many years of bickering over truly absurd and frivolous matters to get here.

RobynC December 19, 2013 63 Comments
Geekery

Kids Face Their Fears and Explore a New World in “Demon Street”

If you’re looking for a beautiful comic about a butt-kicking girl, a boy looking for adventure, breathtaking new worlds, and bizarre creatures, you’ll definitely want to check out Demon Street.

Mey December 18, 2013 4 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

Hearts and Crafts: Émilie Mulcahey & A Dapper Collar Pin

Émilie’s work is whimsical and fun, but still poignant and beautiful. She’s amazing. Then she shows us how to make a cute dapper collar pin!

Hansen December 18, 2013 5 Comments
Sports

2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Presidential Delegation Includes Two Lesbians

Billie Jean King and Caitlin Cahow, two openly gay athletes, are representing the “diversity” of America.

Hansen December 18, 2013 7 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: Hannah Hart and Samira Wiley Ride a Bike to Broad City

Samira Wiley has a new film, Hannah Hart is Miley Cyrus, lesbian “SNL” writer Paula Pell’s webseries, a teaser for “Broad City” and the people that reinvented the wheel have a party involving videos.

Brittani December 18, 2013 12 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Flipping the Bird to Every Member of the GOP in a Custom Lesbian Wedding Dress and Other Stories We Missed This Week

When you’re gettin’ married / To another chick / Who you gonna call?

Carmen December 18, 2013 15 Comments
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