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Parenting & Family

What It Feels Like For A Lesbian Household: Recent Studies On Gay Families

Lesbian families are a thing – but to the scientific community, they still sometimes seem like an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Melissa Etheridge. Here are some of the hard facts.

Rachel February 22, 2011 16 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Rosie O’Donnell & Girlfriend Split, More Importantly Rosie Joins Twitter

Rosie and her girlfriend break up, Rosie joins Twitter, and you can watch “Who Do You Think You Are?” in which Rosie hunts down her family tree from Jersey to Montreal to Ireland.

Jess February 22, 2011 10 Comments
Friendship

How to Be Gay When All Your Friends Are Strai But Probably Love You Anyway

Tips for introducing that girl you’ve been dating to your uber-hetero friends. Plus how to throw a gin bucket party! So much relevancy to so many of your interests.

Guest February 22, 2011 66 Comments
Movie Features

Riese’s Team Pick: Waiting for Superman & The Lottery

These documentaries will teach you more about the American Public Education System than the American Public Education System will teach you about calculus, or something.

Riese February 22, 2011 37 Comments
Society + Culture

When Will Anti-Gay Conservative Christians Need Us More Than We Fear Them?

“Who will they demonize if not the gays?”

guest February 21, 2011 14 Comments
LGBT History

Happy Presidents Day! Here’s the Women Who Did All The Work.

The Top Ten bestest first ladies of all time, including the semi-lezzer and a Michelle Obama appreciation collage.

Riese February 21, 2011 61 Comments
Music

Crystal’s Team Pick: Thom Yorke Gets His Groove On

Don’t be fancy just get dancey.

Crystal February 20, 2011 15 Comments
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NSFW Sunday Keeps Your Sex Toys a Secret

“Why, yes, my new belt is fabulous! You should feel it whipping across your back.”

Queerie Bradshaw February 20, 2011 17 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Lindsay/Sam “Lesbian Affair” Thing Will Outlast The Heat Death Of The Universe

Here’s to hoping we never reach a day when we can’t headline a post with Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. In other news, this is probably one of the best Sunday Fundays of all time.

Rachel February 20, 2011 50 Comments
Movie Features

Hey Oscar Why Wasn’t “For Colored Girls” Enuf?

“Her man throws her kids out of the f-cking window. Shouldn’t that get a chick an OSCAR NOM???? “

gabby February 19, 2011 124 Comments
Politics + Activism

House Votes to Pull Federal Funding from Planned Parenthood, Does Not Know How to Treat a Woman

The bill will never pass the Senate, but the message to women is hard to mistake: your government doesn’t care about you or your right to reproductive health services.

Sarah February 18, 2011 32 Comments
Politics + Activism

Congresswomen Try to Save Planned Parenthood With Honesty, True Stories, Facts

“But for you to stand on this floor and to suggest, as you have, that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought is preposterous.”

Jezebel February 18, 2011 12 Comments
Queer Fashion

Riese’s Team Pick: “Runway Revolution” & Some Fat-Positive Fashion Tumblrs

Plus-sized clothing model Pippa J wants to showcase “wealth of beautiful imagery, videos and other marketing ephemera created showing models over a size 10.” Also, our own list of fat-positive fashion tumblrs AND a sexy video! Happy Friday!

Riese February 18, 2011 37 Comments
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Facebook Adds ‘Civil Union’ Relationship Status (and Don’t Kill Me But I Don’t Like It)

When I hear the words “Civil Union” or “Domestic Partnership,” I think “inequality” and “separate but equal.”

Alex February 18, 2011 55 Comments
Straddleverse

Step Out of Your Egg & Receive Your Comment Award!

So many awards, so little time.

Emily February 18, 2011 18 Comments
Geekery

Jess’s Team Pick: Facebook vs Twitter

Which gives you less social anxiety?

Jess February 17, 2011 67 Comments
Politics + Activism

Hawaii Gets Gay Civil Unions While Wyoming Lawmakers Aim for Inequality State Status

We’d recommend you honeymoon in Honolulu and not Jackson Hole, because if you go to Jackson Hole you might magically lose all of your rights as a homo if this bill passes and we hope it doesn’t!

Riese February 17, 2011 13 Comments
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Intern Emily and the Case of the Hairstyle-Induced Identity Crisis

In which we discuss our haircut, how it affects our daily lives, and the benefits of rooftop hairstylists. ALSO HELLO I HAVE A PONYTAIL.

Emily February 17, 2011 180 Comments

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International Know Your Straddler Week

MEET ALL THE READERS.

Laneia February 17, 2011 407 Comments
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