New Study Questions Whether There Really Is “No Difference” Between Gay and Straight Parents
“This study cannot answer political questions about same-sex relationships and their legal legitimacy.”
Queer Girl City Guide: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“Carolina girls are the best in the world.”
Fiona Apple’s “The Idler Wheel…” Is Streaming on NPR, Probably You Should Listen
Rachel’s Team Pick: Preview Fiona Apple’s new album and swoon a little!
5 Tips On Dating a Girl Who Is Only Kinda Sorta Maybe Out To Her Family And Friends
“Give her time, give her love and support and when she’s ready to whack the rainbow flag bumper sticker on her car, then she will.”
Before “The L Word,” There Was Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Unfortunate representation of queer communities may piss us off but it doesn’t mean it won’t help in some wacked out way. Just look at lesbian pulp fiction novels.
The 2012 Tony Awards Super Ultra Mega Gay Liveblog Situation
Will Neil Patrick Harris rap again? Find out here!
NSFW Sunday Wants to Taste the Rainbow in Your Pants
This week on NSFW Sunday: couples with roommates, feminist porn, bike smut, and tasting the rainbow in your pants.
Sunday Funday Needs a Gaycation
Lady Gaga is done with her next album and Obama is making good speeches again. Now let’s go to the beach.
Charlotte Bunch Is Important: The Autostraddle Interview
“I mean, we would not have violence against women or any issues of women’s rights on the agenda if we had waited for the human rights boys to say it was time.”
Jamaica’s First Lesbian Wedding Ever In History Is Adorable, Deeply Moving
This is by far the best thing to happen this month. Maybe this lifetime.
Lesbians Win “Cutest Couple” In High School Yearbook, Are In Fact The Cutest Couple
Students in an allegedly ‘conservative’ rural county in California vote a lesbian couple as “cutest couple,” and it wasn’t a prank or anything.
The Comment Awards Are Bursting With Pride!
The Managerettes love you so much that they hijacked the Comment Awards this week.
The Unaccountable Life of Gender-Bending Rebel Charlie Brown
“This little book… is to my mind the progenitor of all funny queer blogs written in the first-person. Yes, this is the story of the first queer blogger.”
VIDEO: Texas Baptist Pastor Defends Obama’s Gay Marriage Position, Suggests Anti-Gays “Take A Chill Pill”
“He swore to protect and uphold the constitution, not the Bible, but the Constitution of the United States. He is not the pastor of the United States, he’s the President of the United States.”
Things I Read That I Love #28: Only Hellos
Today’s topics include plane crashes, cannibals, the army, Quiz Bowl, Gossip Girl, transgender children and so much more!
Get Baked: Peanut Noodles
Delicious summertime lunch hot or cold!
Caiden Cowger, 14-Year-Old Radio Host, Hates Gay People and Grammar
Caiden Cowger doesn’t have a good grasp on the differences between “your” and “you’re” but he does hate gay people on the radio.
Herstory Spotlight: Vita Sackville-West Wrote Words, Wooed Women, Wanted Woolf
On the lady who wrote this to Virginia Woolf – “You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
Kyrsten Sinema Wants To Be Arizona’s First Out Bisexual Congresswoman
Kyrsten Sinema is proof not everything in Arizona politics is bad. Now if we can just get the 9th District to make her the first out bisexual on Capitol Hill.
Edie Windsor Wins Lawsuit Against DOMA, Our Hearts
Edie Windsor successfully had DOMA declared unconstitutional by a federal court.