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.
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.
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!
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 Prairie Homo Companion: Snow is a Gender-Neutral Pronoun
I started feeling cold around the time I started feeling self-conscious.
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.
Bigot Bingo Puts the “Fun” Back in Fundamentally Flawed Argument
Nothing lightens up a white-knuckled homophobic debate like a rousing game of Bingo!
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
XXXMAS: The Playlist
I am a festive machine hellbent on bringing joy to others through forcible consumption of yuletide joy.
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.
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.
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.
Holigay Gift Guide 2012: I Like Coffee, I Like Tea
For the hot caffeinated beverage junkie in your life/heart.
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.
Almost Famous: Wishbeard
Queer psychedelic dream-poppers who describe their sound as part-‘math rock’ and all own ridiculously cute pets.
Yoko Ono’s Cover of “Firework” Makes Everything Okay
Here’s Yoko’s “cover” of “Firework” by “artist” Katy Perry.