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Food Lists

Ultra Garlicky Recipes To Make Your Kitchen Smell Like Roasted Heaven

In these recipes, garlic isn’t just a supporting ingredient; it’s the star.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 2, 2023 5 Comments
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Book Lists

20 Queer and Feminist Banned Books (And How To Get Them to Kids Who Need Them)

It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.

Carmen Phillips October 2, 2023 12 Comments
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Parenting & Family

Queer Mom Chronicles: Why I Never Put Anyone in My Family “First”

To me, the concept of anyone being “first” in a family feels weird. We all have a hierarchy of needs, right?

Sa'iyda Shabazz October 2, 2023 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Accepting Podcast Recommendations

Are *any* Halloween monsters good at math?

Kate Hawkins October 2, 2023 2 Comments
A collage over a pink sparkle background: Weird Barbie played by Kate McKinnon as both the rebel leader at the end of the Barbie movie and as the Birkenstock guide early in the movie. Then also, left to right: an Asian woman in a pink leather jacket, pink Birkenstocks, a Black woman in a pink dress, pink and orange patterned sweatpants, and black Birkenstocks.
Movie Features Queer Fashion

Style Thief: How to Dress Like Weird Barbie, the Most Lesbian of Barbies

How much pink is too much pink for one outfit, you may ask? Infinity.

Carmen Phillips October 1, 2023 10 Comments
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Food Lists

50 Pumpkin Recipes That Will Put Your Latte to Shame

Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere! But mostly in your food.

Rachel and Carmen Phillips
October 1, 2023 18 Comments
October Streaming Guide collage Column One: Living for the Dead, Twin Flames Universe, Elite Column Two: Our Flag Means Death, Doom Patrol, Monster High 2 Column Three: Fall of the House of Usher, Everything Now
Movie Lists TV Lists

October 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got a new edgy British queer teen series, a very gay “House of the Fall of Usher,” Kristen Stewart’s gay ghost hunting show, a Twin Flames cult exposé docuseries with a fascinating LGBTQ+ elements and so much more!

Riese October 1, 2023 8 Comments
Quizzes

Quiz: Which LGBTQ+ Glee Kid Are You?

Which of the many LGBTQ+ Glee Club members are you? Now is the time to find out!

Riese October 1, 2023 19 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for October 2023

There is a common misconception about Libra energy that it is “peaceful.” As we move into this fairly dramatic Libra season I’d like to reframe that. Libra is interested in restoring balance.

Corina Dross October 1, 2023 1 Comment
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Food and Drink

Uncommon Pairings: Chilled Red Wines for Early Autumn

Chilled reds are the perfect companion this time of year. They feel like leaves changing and light sweaters and playfully sticking your toes under someone’s butt to warm up.

ashni September 30, 2023 4 Comments
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Webcomics

Reine #52: New Girlfriend

You must submit your new girlfriend for the dyke council’s consideration.

Ren Strapp September 30, 2023 32 Comments
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A+ Crossword Is a Sign of Things To Come

Did you hear about the aquatic sea mammals that escaped from the zoo?

Rebecca Goldstein September 30, 2023 1 Comment
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Movie News & Trailers

Chrishell Stause Will Star As Gay Mommi-To-Be in Lifetime Thriller

Listen, coming out isn’t a competition buuuuut Chrishell might be winning coming out?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 29, 2023
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Mabel’s Not Tolerating Heteronormativity at Her Fake Wedding on “Only Murders in the Building”

Also Reservation Dogs ended its run this week and there’s a very horny gay betazoid on Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Valerie Anne September 29, 2023
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Halloween

Spirit Halloween Animatronics, Ranked By Lesbianism

“I yearned for her howling spirit” sounds like how an erotic werewolf fiction author might describe a Sapphic lupine sex scene.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 29, 2023 3 Comments
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Music

Two Queer Women Discuss Their Free-Ass Time At Janelle Monáe’s Age of Pleasure Tour

Sexual freedom can also just be about freedom in general, at least for one night, in a special space.

Drew Burnett Gregory and Carmen Phillips
September 29, 2023 2 Comments
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Food and Drink Shopping

Cute Mugs for Achieving Cozy Queer Aesthetic Goals

Mushroom mugs! Tree mugs! Live Laugh LESBIAN mugs!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 29, 2023 3 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Something You Said Last Night” Is a New, Quietly Subversive Trans Cinema

Something You Said Last Night not only insists we should ask for more from our trans cinema — it insists we should ask for more from our trans lives.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 29, 2023 7 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Has No Regrets

No one can tell me what “idk” stands for.

Amanda Rafkin September 29, 2023
TV Feature

Very Special Gay Episode: Queen Latifah Was the Lesbian Fairy Godmother Holding Together Living Single’s Same-Sex Wedding

The iconic 90s sitcom is celebrating its 30th birthday this month, and there’s never been a better time to revisit how Queen Latifah was the glue that held its Very Special Gay Episode together.

Carmen Phillips September 28, 2023 12 Comments
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