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Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
LGBT Book Reviews

“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief

Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.

Stef Rubino January 22, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Feature

Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) on “Hazbin Hotel,” Her Favorite Musicals, and Giving People Second Chances

“I really love writing romance. Romance and angst and tragedy.”

Rendy Jones January 22, 2024 5 Comments
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Food and Drink

Confessions Of A Stress Baker

Creaming together butter and sugar keeps me from picking at my cuticles until they bleed.

Sa'iyda Shabazz January 22, 2024 3 Comments
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Movie Reviews

Sundance 2024: “Sebastian” Fails in Its Self-Critique of a Gay Sex Work Story

Sex work as a topic is not enough to make a story interesting.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 22, 2024 1 Comment
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Having a Sandwich

Why did Adele cross the road?

Darby Ratliff January 22, 2024
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Music

Sleater-Kinney Is Back With an Album About Moving Through Grief

To be alive, to be human in the world we’ve created, means we’re going to keep experiencing the devastation of loss.

Stef Rubino January 21, 2024 2 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Mean Girls Character Are You?

I mean I don’t know what else was to tell you, Mean Girls is queer culture. It was decided by a jury of your peers.

Carmen Phillips January 21, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1603 Recap: Mommy Issues

With talent and charm, Nymphia is the star of this episode. While others are stressing, she has time to flutter around the workroom being funny and chaotic.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 20, 2024 4 Comments
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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Sex in “Bound” Changed Our Lives

Bound was so ahead of its time it would still be ahead of its time if it came out today.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
January 20, 2024 10 Comments
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Community Politics + Activism

Los Angeles Gay Bar The Abbey Faces an Overdue Reckoning

In a detailed report from The 19th, over 70 people describe being drugged at The Abbey — including many queer women.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 20, 2024 12 Comments
In a panel of a comic, a character (a black queer person with glasses) comes running into a room to tell their two friends (both queer, one white with blue hair, one black) about their bad day.
Webcomics

Reine #56: Baby

This one goes out to everyone who ever called their teacher mommy on accident.

Ren Strapp January 20, 2024 1 Comment
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is Exhibiting Its Typical Behavior

I have the world’s worst thesaurus.

Rebecca Goldstein January 20, 2024
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: After Five Years, Alice’s Finally Growing Into the Confidence of Her Convictions on “Good Trouble”

In Good Trouble’s final season, Alice and Malika are both growing out of old habits and trying out new paths.

Natalie January 19, 2024
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Comedy

The Pettiest Things We’ve Been Mad at Friends For

17. Not being enthusiastic enough about my new cat

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 19, 2024 17 Comments
Hazbin Hotel: the gay princess of hell Charlie and her girlfriend Vaggie
TV Reviews

Hazbin Hotel Is a Musical Extravaganza About a Bubbly Queer Princess of Hell

It’s very healing to see the Princess of Hell be a happy-go-lucky queer girl, living her best life with a girlfriend by her side.

Valerie Anne January 19, 2024 8 Comments
Alan Cumming, host of The Traitors Season Two, dressed all in formal black, leads the contestants in a funeral march, saying, “Death is the final destination for us all, players.”
TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 204 Recap: Who Did Parvati Shallow Poison?

The challenge for the day is an extremely theatrical, preemptive funeral march/trivia game for the yet-to-be-identified poison victim.

Anya Richkind January 19, 2024 4 Comments
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Relationships

Forget New Relationship Energy, Embrace Stable Relationship Energy

Rather than striving for New Relationship Energy within a relationship that isn’t new, why don’t we embrace Stable Relationship Energy?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 19, 2024 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Making Butter Chicken Later

Have you heard the joke about the bed? No?

Emet Ozar January 19, 2024
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Lesbian Weddings

How To Make the Website for Your Lesbian Wedding

I put the date on my website homepage no less than three times because apparently GAYS CAN’T READ.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 18, 2024 9 Comments
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Gender

How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends

It can be helpful to see a transition as smaller, interlocked transitions.

Summer Tao January 18, 2024 2 Comments
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