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TV Reviews

Queer Lead Sophia Swanson Makes MTV’s “Underemployed” Worth Watching

MTV’s post-college dramedy “Underemployed” features a lesbian at the center of the action, and she’s pretty fucking cute.

Riese December 14, 2012 17 Comments
Visual Art

Difficult Love: Watch Zanele Muholi’s Powerful Documentary on the South African LGBTQ Experience

Anyone who is interested in intersectionality, anti-colonialism, and just regular rattling of the cage of mainstream norms, this is for you.

Araguaney R. Da Silva December 14, 2012 6 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now

Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!

Riese December 14, 2012 21 Comments
Food and Drink

Liquor With Holiday Spirit: Homemade Eggnog

Eggnog is my holiday jam. I like all kinds of eggnog. Legit. I’ve never met an eggnog that I didn’t like. So Straddlers, let’s make some nog.

A.E. Osworth December 14, 2012 20 Comments
First Person

A Prairie Homo Companion: Snow is a Gender-Neutral Pronoun

I started feeling cold around the time I started feeling self-conscious.

Malaika December 13, 2012 17 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: Zeitgeist, Pop Music and Mistletoe

This does include a man being slapped for trying to kiss a woman under a mistletoe and I would love to discuss your reaction to this because I feel as if you will say it’s not an overreaction.

Brittani December 13, 2012 7 Comments
Society + Culture

Bigot Bingo Puts the “Fun” Back in Fundamentally Flawed Argument

Nothing lightens up a white-knuckled homophobic debate like a rousing game of Bingo!

Kristen December 13, 2012 17 Comments
Movie Features

Things to Look at When You’re ‘Not Sober’ or Even When You Are, Whichever, Part 2

We just wanted to make sure you knew about this neat thing over at the New York Times. How is your day?

Laneia December 13, 2012 19 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Holigay 2012 Gift Guide: What’s Cookin’, Good Lookin’

Food-related gifts are especially fun (if you’re into that) because they can be both useful and something your giftee would not buy themselves at the same time.

Ryan Yates December 13, 2012 22 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #9: The Golden Age Is Now

In this edition of Lez Liberty Lit: the golden age for writers, nostalgia, literary cartography, bookshelves as diaries,
“I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus” and the end of the world.

Ryan Yates December 13, 2012 4 Comments
Theater

We’re Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater, Wanna Help?

There’s a show full of queer women and you could help bring them to the masses! Wouldn’t that be neat?

JuliaOA December 13, 2012 24 Comments
Breakups

25 Reasons I’m Finally Starting to Enjoy Being Single (Besides Sleeping Around)

18. The only bladder I have to wake up for is my own.

Lizz December 13, 2012 87 Comments
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XXXMAS: The Playlist

I am a festive machine hellbent on bringing joy to others through forcible consumption of yuletide joy. 

Carmen December 13, 2012 15 Comments
Society + Culture

LGBT Retirement Homes Step Up in Response to Homophobia and Mistreatment of LGBT Elders

With support for gay equality at an all-time-high and the focus on an aging generation of baby boomers, our LGBT predecessors are finally getting the much-needed care they deserve.

fonseca December 12, 2012 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: We Get It, Bill de Blasio’s Wife Once Identified As Lesbian, And Other Stories We Missed This Week

Starring IKEA Monkey as Margot Tenenbaum.

Carmen December 12, 2012 37 Comments
TV Reviews

6 Reasons To Watch Season One Of Gay Teevee Show DTLA

Dana Fairbanks, Julie Goldman, and four other reasons to watch the entire season of DTLA in one day.

Riese December 12, 2012 6 Comments
Christmas Shopping

Holigay Gift Guide 2012: I Like Coffee, I Like Tea

For the hot caffeinated beverage junkie in your life/heart.

Rachel December 12, 2012 25 Comments
TV Feature

Going Down (South): Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Child, Southern Progressive Icon

Actually, I love the image that comes from being from the same state as the Honey Boo Boo Child herself.

fonseca December 12, 2012 18 Comments
Music

Almost Famous: Wishbeard

Queer psychedelic dream-poppers who describe their sound as part-‘math rock’ and all own ridiculously cute pets.

Crystal December 12, 2012 13 Comments
Music

Yoko Ono’s Cover of “Firework” Makes Everything Okay

Here’s Yoko’s “cover” of “Firework” by “artist” Katy Perry.

Carmen December 12, 2012 21 Comments
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