Anderson Cooper Officially Comes Out: “The Fact Is, I’m Gay”
“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”
Stonewall, As It Seemed Then: The Advocate Remembers Best
Carmen’s Team Pick: “‘Don’t you know that these people have no place to go and need a place like that bar?’ she shouted.”
Texas Teen Lesbian Shooting Victim Remembers That Night, Eyewitness Comes Forward
19-year-old Kristene Chapa is recovering (without health insurance) from the shooting that killed her 18-year-old girlfriend. Also, new information from her family and the Portland Police Department.
It’s Canada Day! Here’s 24 Kickass LBTQ Canadians
Let’s celebrate Canada Day with all the other Canadians!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Doing It In The Road
This week on NSFW Sunday: dating yourself, couch surfing, and tastes and sex. I know, sex! Crazy.
Sunday Funday Is Proud to Be a Gay American
This week, marriage equality is “in the works,” people are coming out as stoners / childbearers / lesbians, and the people who made your calculators are excited for pride. And it’s almost July 4!
Pretty Little Liars Recap 301 and 302: Excessive Drinking That Night in the Bloody New Black
Recaps of season three episodes one and two are here! Rejoice!
This Short Series About Coming Out Is Adorable
Carolyn’s Team Pick: “I came out into a scene that really valourized masculinity and so I felt like in order to be recognized as a queer person I had to cut my hair short and dress in this particular way.”
The Comment Awards Are Welcoming Two New Co-Captains, Ahoy!
Things we wrote and the best of what you clever dolphins said.
Formspring Friday Didn’t Know You Could Jump So High
This week you’re helping out with a variety of mom-related issues, girlfriend feelings, touchy feely straight girls, coming out as trans* and a possible stone butch, among other things. Maybe our best FS Friday ever.
Even Exodus International Doesn’t Want to Talk About “Curing” Gays Anymore
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and married to Leslie Chambers with two adopted children, now says his group will no longer operate around claims of being able to “cure” anyone.
Things I Read That I Love #31: Working One’s Way Through A Crisis
This week’s topics include bipolar disorder, alcoholism, child abuse, immigration, poverty, deadly amusement park rides and working at the apple store!
Germany Sends Lesbian Refugee Back To Iran With a Little Advice: Pretend To Be Straight
Samira Ghorbani Danesh faces imprisonment and torture if German courts don’t reverse a recent decision.
Gay Rights Are Not Queer Liberation
“I’m not sorry we can now enter the military, and I’m not sorry that we can now marry. But frankly I come from a moment in time, and a radical vision in time, that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”
Playlist: You’re My Favorite Book
You know what’s better than a book on tape? A book in a song.
Get Baked: Grill The Rainbow
Did I make this mostly as an excuse to make a sideways Pride flag on my counter? (Spoiler alert: yes.)
Brave’s Unconventional Heroine: What Doesn’t Queer You Makes You Stronger
“This is the kind of movie that needs to be made more often. It’s like Tangled on feminist steroids.”
The SCOTUS Health Care Ruling: What Does It Mean?
The Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act and its mandate that Americans carry health insurance or else face a tax is constitutional.
What’s It Like Growing Up With A Transgender Parent? Sharon Shattuck Knows.
“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”
Playlist: Songs I Love That Don’t Have Words
I believed deeply, at one point, that words could do a majority of the communicating I would need to do in my life. I was wrong.