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Lesbian Sex

Ethics of Lust: On the Legality of Stripping and Burlesque

This week we focus on scantily clad people inside strip clubs and burlesque halls.

Queerie Bradshaw August 28, 2011 15 Comments
Society + Culture

Your Two Minute Guide to Feelings About Gay Marriage

GOOD released a summary of changing attitudes about gay marriage that you can blow through in under five minutes. And it’s illustrated!

Ryan Yates August 27, 2011 17 Comments
Travel

Let Them Eat Gulab Jamun With My City Cuisine

Laura’s Team Pick: My City Cuisine helps you figure out what you should and should not put in your mouth.

Laura August 27, 2011 10 Comments
Theater

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, With A Side of RADCLYFFE

“We believe that our community – and especially our youth – deserve to know our history. If you don’t know you have a past, how can you believe you have a future?”

Jamie J. Hagen August 27, 2011 7 Comments
Food and Drink

“You Deserve A Drink” has Alcohol, Puns, Alcohol Puns

Intern Grace’s Team Pick: A girl making alcohol puns for three minutes while discussing pop culture. She just really gets you, you know?

Intern Grace August 26, 2011 24 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars 211 Fashioncap: Bad Girls Wear Purple

How did I feel when I heard Maya was coming back to Pretty Little Liars? Let’s just say it was similar to when Brock came back to Pokemon.

Lizz August 26, 2011 13 Comments
Community

It’s Time for Hey! Did You See That Comment?! Friday

Do you think Intern Grace would make a new comment award picture with different people behind the computer a la “who’s at the door”?

Laura August 26, 2011 6 Comments
Society + Culture

Gay People Suddenly Everywhere According To Census Data

“Middle America is safer and more welcoming for gay people than ever before, which is good, because it’s most of America.”

Rachel August 26, 2011 15 Comments
Music

Artist Spotlight: Two Door Cinema Club

Never heard Two Door Cinema Club? This is for you.

Ericka August 26, 2011 15 Comments
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Movie Night: Y Tu Mama Tambien

“Typical men! Fighting like dogs and marking their territory. What you really want is to fuck each other… that’s what you want!”

Emily August 26, 2011 26 Comments
Lesbian Sex

How I Learned to Talk (In Bed): Why This Queer Woman Cares About Consent

I had already committed, in my mind, to taking on consent activism for the rest of my life. Then I came out of the closet.

Carmen August 26, 2011 66 Comments
TV Lists

Top 10 Quotes from ‘Designing Women’

It’s Friday. You need this.

Laneia August 26, 2011 21 Comments
Community

A Love Letter to Christina Santiago

Gabrielle Rivera remembers her best friend, LGBT Activist Christina Santiago, a victim of the Indiana State Fair stage crash – “No one on the corner had swagger like us or secret crushes on Angelina Jolie and Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopes.”

gabby August 25, 2011 30 Comments
Book Features

Eileen Myles Believes In Evil But Not Witch Hunts

Rachel’s Team Pick: “I think it’s quietly genocidal. I mean in a spiritual sense. Instead of pole dancing you can be a pleasure rug. Just lie down! The money will come.”

Rachel August 25, 2011 3 Comments
Music

Your Lady Killers Tour Backstage Pass: Part 1, Wrestling

Behind the scenes with Hunter Valentine, Sick of Sarah and Vanity Theft on their Lady Killers Tour!

Crystal August 25, 2011 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

GOProud, Republicans Still Freezing Out Karger In “Uniquely Anti-Gay GOP Field”

Fred Karger, the man who would be a gay Republican president, has been denied participation in the upcoming California Republican Convention.

Ryan Yates August 25, 2011 18 Comments
School

Elmhurst College Hopes To Be Enriched By Gay Students, Give Them Money

Elmhurst College in Illinois has become the first school to ask (optionally) about your sexual orientation on their admissions application. How does that make you feel?

Rachel August 25, 2011 14 Comments
Music

On Kanye West and ‘Watch the Throne’

Kanye West is seeking redemption — he’s just having a hard time wading through all the diamonds to get there.

phoenix August 25, 2011 26 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Pretty Little Liars Jewelry Is Here

Lizz’s Team Pick: Remember when Nole saw Aria and Ezra making out in Ezra’s car and wrote “I see you” on the windshield? Well the “I See You” line takes this epic back-window-writing-moment and sprawls it across glass rings and silver engraved necklaces.

Lizz August 25, 2011 3 Comments
Visual Art

This Video Is Probably The Greatest Thing Ever Made

Emily’s Team Pick: And I really wanted to share it with you.

Emily August 25, 2011 22 Comments
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