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Geekery

Un-tech Your Tech: Sometimes You Just Need Real Things

Sometimes, it’s ok to take a break from tech.

A.E. Osworth June 15, 2013 17 Comments
First Person

Butch Please: Butch Gets Intimate

Is there a space within sex positivity for those of us who feel uncomfortable doing what sex positivism seems to ask of us?

Kate June 14, 2013 83 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are High On Pride

‘Tis the season to don our gay apparel.

carrie June 14, 2013 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

Russia Poised to Pass Nationwide “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

The law would make it illegal to provide information to minors if it promotes “non-traditional sexual relationships” or provides “a distorted notion of social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships.”

Cara June 14, 2013 14 Comments
Politics + Activism

The View from Pew: LGBT Acceptance At An All-Time High

We haven’t yet been accepted as gospel, but we’re lightyears ahead of where we were 10 years ago.

Laura June 14, 2013 15 Comments
House & Garden

Our Top Ten Favorite Design*Sponge Posts

The best of the best of Design*Sponge.

Hansen June 14, 2013 4 Comments
First Person Issues

Leaving a Mark on the American Heartland With My Solo Queer Trans* Woman Roadtrip

“This past year of my transition, 2012, has been one of road travel with many miles revisited across numerous American states… Not the least of my concerns was driving my friend Xene’s unfamiliar Prius. Yet, my larger concern was driving solo as a woman.”

Amy June 14, 2013 22 Comments
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Lez Get Dressed For Work: The Working Bois Of Summer

Today I want to talk about how to dress for work when it’s super fucking hot outside and you don’t wear dresses.

Gabrielle Korn June 14, 2013 31 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #79: Subterranean Homesick Blues

Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!

Riese June 14, 2013 6 Comments
Crafts & DIY Projects

DIY Beauty Bar: Flaxseed Gel For All Your Coiffure Needs

This stuff holds your hair in place without giving it that oh so popular glue-in-your-hair look that so many gels offer.

Laura June 14, 2013 24 Comments
Home Relationships

Home Sweet Homo: Moving Tips for Efficient U-Hauling

Moving isn’t fun. Here are some tips that won’t actually make it fun, but maybe survivable, and that’s a start.

Hansen June 14, 2013 22 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #22: Reading As Performing

Where to find queer books to read, starting books but not finishing them, perceived gender, 1984 and more.

Ryan Yates June 13, 2013 8 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“The Fosters” Episode 102 Recap: Little Lying Lhasa Apsos

“My sister has Lhasa Apsos and one of them bit my son in the face and now I don’t like Lhasa Apsos and this is unintentional foreshadowing because it turns out I don’t like Marianna much in this episode either.”

Vikki Reich June 13, 2013 49 Comments
First Person Gender Issues

The Incredibly True Story Of How Cissexism Made My Same-Sex Marriage Legal

Thanks to a simple governmental regulation, my wife and I were able to exploit a legal loophole and obtain a federally recognized marriage.

Elizabeth June 13, 2013 34 Comments
Playlists

Playlist: Brooklyn-Based Queer Musicians With A Lot Of (Upbeat) Feelings

Brooklyn! Brooklyn is a pretty rad place, I hear. They’ve got that bridge situation going on.

Intern Grace June 13, 2013 5 Comments
Music

Crush Of The Week: Meshell Ndegeocello

“Between her bass playing, her come-to-me smoky voice, her gender-bending outfits, and (at the time) bald head, I swoonily followed her through her musical universe as she had some shooting-star hits.”

Andrea Plaid June 13, 2013 20 Comments
Travel

A Prairie Homo Does New York: Ten Things I Hate About Mice

New York is more than taxi cabs, street food, and crowds. There’re also mice, rats, and cockroaches! Lots of them! How exciting, right?

Malaika June 13, 2013 36 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: Taye Diggs Puts a Rainbow On It

Put a rainbow on this week’s party as we watch the video for “The Gayest of All time”, listen to Taye Diggs ruin hip hop, and check out the new show about women in prison from the creator of “Weeds”.

Brittani June 13, 2013 13 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta Stands Up for Gay Marriage and Other Stories We Missed This Week

Familia es Familia, unless you’re in the Salvation Army. Or Louisiana.

Carmen June 12, 2013 8 Comments
The Scene

You Should Go: Babeland Throws Us Another Party

Free cocktails, a workshop on kink, and YOU. NYC, June 20. See you there.

Gabrielle Korn June 12, 2013 20 Comments
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