You Should Go: NYC’s LezCab is Relevant to Your Rodgers and Hammerstein Interests
If you feel like there aren’t enough lesbos in the waving wheat of Oklahoma!,come see our versions of these beloved show tunes. Also, you might meet some girls.
Lez Liberty Lit #27: Hamlet Dies
This week in lit: bookshelfies, queer superhero power couples, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, a pop-culture feminist syllabus and more.
Soldier Tried for Wikileaks Involvement Comes Out As Chelsea Manning
“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female… I hope that you will support me in this transition.”
Brittani’s Video Party: David Sedaris is on the Edge of Normal with Winnie Cooper
So many forms of media! A movie trailer, a music video, a web series, and a television show all partying with special guest, Alex Vega’s hair.
He Said / We Said: Inspired by Gay St. in the West Village
Rocking navys and grays in the West Village, we’ve got some stylish dapperQs interpreting the Bespoken Spring 2013 Collection.
Recruiting All Homos: Everything You’ve Ever Done, Ever
“So we sit down and I pull out my life’s timeline and Officially Official Documents like WAH-BOOM! How you like them apples??”
Almost Famous: Aye Nako
Stef hijacked Almost Famous so she could tell you about this rad queercore / homo-pop band and their dog, Broccolini, who is 10x cooler than you, sorry. Aye Nako!
Kristen’s Team Pick: DIY Dating Profiles Without All of That Pesky “Yourself”
Kristen’s Team Pick: Use a lorem ipsum generator to fill out your dating profile for when you’re too distracted by all of the potential boob dates to remember how to write in English.
Listling With Brief Commentary: Headlines For Posts That Neglecters Of Queer Women’s Websites Must Think We Write
“Eight New Kinds of Dildos For You To Gay Marry”
Team Pick: Taylor Swift Becomes Tegan & Sara’s Erotic Third, Many Lesbians Rejoice
Taylor Swift performed “Closer” with Tegan and Sara at a concert in LA last night and when Vanessa and Lizz saw the video they collectively died. You will too.
Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview
The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.
In Attics and Cellars: Hunting Down Queer Women’s Performances at the Edinburgh Fringe
It’s even better in August, though, when every spare space in the city is full of performers putting on shows in cellars, attics, theatres and sheds as part of the world’s arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe.
Also.Also.Also: My Mutha’s The Gay, Female Weezy
This week, OINTB continues a takeover while Michelle Tea keeps on being amazing.
Bollywood’s More Gay-Friendly Than Ever — So Where Are All the Queer Women?
While queer visibility is rising in Bollywood films, there is still a long ways to go for queer women.
Queer Outfit of the Week: Summer Day Date
It’s 100,000 degrees outside, summer’s not yet over and you’ve just met the girl of your dreams. You’d better bust out your summer date outfit!
GaymerX Is The Gaming Convention Made For Queers, But Important For Everyone
They had to show gamers why something like this needed to exist. More than that, they had to show the world why something like this needed to exist.
Back to the 80’s and Section 28: Anti-Gay School Policy Resurfaces in the UK
A decade after its repeal, sex ed policies which are alarmingly similar to Section 28 have cropped up again, raising questions as to how much autonomy schools should have over sex and relationship education syllabi.
“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 112 Recap: Typical Lesbian Processing
This episode’s theme is “people are mad at Piper and we don’t really blame them that much” and I know y’all agree.
Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom
“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”
NJ’s Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Is Great, Not Indicative of Christie’s Conversion to Decency
Perhaps Christie’s evolution could help push Republicans into being less bigoted and terrible to queers. But that, of course, might be pie in the sky.