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The Comment Awards Are All About The Numbers

2, 4, 6, 8, your comments we appreciate!

Laura January 27, 2012 11 Comments
Movie News & Trailers

VIDEO: L.A. Premiere of “Love Is All You Need?”

Wingspan Pictures’ “Love Is All You Need?” tackles xenophobia and bullying with adorable child actors and big feelings!

Sarah Croce January 27, 2012 13 Comments
Style

Top Ten Things You Can Carry In Cargo Pants Pockets

As if you need an excuse to wear cargo pants.

Intern Grace January 27, 2012 108 Comments
Movie News & Trailers

Spike Lee Goes Off at Sundance

“They know nothing about black people…and they’re going to give me notes about what a 13 year-old boy and girl are doing in Red Hook? Fuck no!”

Brittani January 26, 2012 16 Comments
Politics + Activism

Arkansas Newspaper Rejects Gay Engagement Annoucement For Dumb Reason

An Arkansas newspaper refuses to run a gay couple’s engagement announcement because the two can’t legally marry. This is obnoxious and ass backwards.

Lizz January 26, 2012 22 Comments
Politics + Activism

Five Political Podcasts to Make You Smarter

News, commentary, interviews and activism! Being smarter is how you make new friends and have the shiniest hair.

Jamie J. Hagen January 26, 2012 27 Comments
Money + Work

You Need Help: Employment Edition

Get a job!

Crystal January 26, 2012 59 Comments
LGBT History

Jeanne Baret Did It Like a Dude

Laura’s Team Pick: How the first woman to sail around the world did it as a man.

Laura January 26, 2012 18 Comments
Style TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Fashioncap Plus 217: The Gay Blonde Leading the Color Blind

Toby fell off a wall and Emily wore a military style vest. All in all a pretty good episode.

Lizz January 26, 2012 11 Comments
Food and Drink

Your State May or May Not Be Binge Drinking By Your Side

Binge drinking is kind of an American pastime right now, according to the Center for Disease Control, and they’ve got state-by-state data that reveals a “binge drinking belt.”

Carmen January 25, 2012 54 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Shiloh Panic! Life & Style Rehashes Fears About Shiloh’s Haircut, Pants, Dinosaur Toy

Once again, Life & Style is freaking out about Shiloh’s deviant “shorter-than-ever” haircut and Angelina’s secret plan to “turn Shiloh into a boy.”

Riese January 25, 2012 125 Comments
Politics + Activism

The State of the Union: Obama Shares Feelings and John Boehner Claps Reluctantly

“I will not go back to the days when Wall Street was allowed to play by its own set of rules.”

Rachel January 25, 2012 26 Comments
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TV Reviews

In Canadian TV Show “Bomb Girls,” It’s Women and Lesbians First

Who’s in the mood for a show about girls working in World War II bomb-making factories and sometimes making eyes at each other? YOU ARE.

Riese January 25, 2012 54 Comments
Recipes

Get Baked: Indian Spiced Cauliflower and Potatoes

When a cauliflower and some cumin love each other very much.

Rachel January 25, 2012 8 Comments
Movie Features

84th Academy Awards Nominees or ‘All the Movies We Didn’t See’

The nominees for the 2012 Oscars were announced! Do you have feelings about any of them? I have a few!

Lizz January 24, 2012 61 Comments
LGBT History

Building the Master’s House: How the Construction of Heterosexuality Happened

“Just because something is constructed as a social category, doesn’t mean that it’s not enormously meaningful. It doesn’t mean that we haven’t built a whole damn civilization on it.”

Rachel January 24, 2012 28 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: From Minnesota to New Jersey, This Land Was Made For the Gays

Lots of stuff happened to gay people this week! Mostly good, some bad! It’s only Tuesday, but so far, the future is bright.

Ryan Yates January 24, 2012 9 Comments
Travel

The 21 Most Lesbianish Cities in the US: The Autostraddle Guide

We did our own highly scientific research to determine where in the country you’re most likely to meet other queer ladies, hang out with other queer ladies and admit that you’re a queer lady in public!

the team January 24, 2012 312 Comments
Book Features

Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!

Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.

Rachel January 24, 2012 15 Comments
Comedy

“How to Write Like a Funny Woman” Says Be Present, Make Strong Choices

Lizz’s Team Pick: Tip #2: Play to the top of your intelligence. “I am trying to write a book. The book begins with me as a college student, a nineteen-year-old girl. I did a lot of dumb shit at that age.”

Lizz January 23, 2012 3 Comments
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