a Black mom and her son in a watermelon float in the pool

Parenting & Family

Queer Mom Chronicles: School’s Out for Summer

As much as I love it, summer vacation is not quite as relaxing when you’re a working mom.

Naya Rivera performs as Santana Lopez on Glee

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: It’s Always the Right Time to Remember Santana Lopez

The Bechdel Test was really just meant to be a little lesbian joke, Jodi Balfour loves playing powerful lesbians, and more!

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex

LGBT Book Reviews

“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work

Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.

A white woman with long blonde hair in a bun wears a grey flannel with white cross hatching. She sits in a cafe with her chin in her hand, looking away from the woman sitting next to her. The woman beside her is a Black woman with curly hair. She wears a white shirt with an open denim collared shirt over it. She looks down at her phone. A latte is in blue mug in front of her.

Relationships

7 Signs It’s Time for Couples Therapy, According to a Queer Relationship Therapist

You don’t have to wait for an extreme problem to seek out couples therapy.

Eight anti-heroes featured in this quiz: Eve Polastri Annalise Keating Harley Quinn Taissa Turner Anne Lister Delphine Cormier Marceline the Vampire Queen Villanelle

Quizzes

Quiz: Which Sapphic Anti-Hero Are You?

It’s me, hi! I’m the problem, it’s me!

Janelle Monáe holding a rainbow heart at a mic on a Pride float

First Person Music

Leaning Into Pleasure at the Janelle Monáe Listening Party

The leftover swirls of emotion from the sheer queerness of the event, of the attendees, of the joy, are still sustaining me, even as Pride month comes to a close.

july 2023 streaming guide collage: Good Omens, Survival of the Thickest, Minx, The Afterparty. Bottom row: A Little White Lie, Real Housewives of New York, A Little White Lie, Brandi Carlile, The Donor Party, Harley Quinn, What We Do In the Shadows

Movie Lists TV Lists

July 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got new seasons of Good Omens, The Afterparty and Minx; Jenna Lyons joining the Real Housewives of New York, Brandi Carlile in Laurel Canyon, locker room makeouts in Netflix’s “Survival of the Thickest” and so much more!

A stylized graphic featuring a grid of the 12 astrological signs in a light lavender against a swirled muted navy blue background.

Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for July 2023

Cancer holds the secret of queer love: fierce and tender protection.

Nancy Drew: Bess smirks at Nancy, their faces awfully close together for just friends

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Nancy Drew Breaks Out the Murder Board in a Creepy Teeth Episode

Plus updates on How I Met Your Father!

TV News & Trailers

Bravo Dykes, We’ve Got Another Queer Real Housewife! Taylor Armstrong Is Bisexual

I’ve always said Real Housewives cast trips are the locus of gay activity.

ame-sex marriage supporter Vin Testa, of Washington, DC, waves a LGBTQIA pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building as he makes pictures with his friend Donte Gonzalez to celebrate the anniversary of the United States v. Windsor and the Obergefell v. Hodges decisions on June 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. Today marks the 8th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that guaranteed the right to marriage for same-sex couples.

Politics + Activism

Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Gay Wedding Website Designer in Another Blow to Equality

“Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent.

Brittney and Cherelle Griner laugh during The Newlywed Game

Sports

Watch Brittney and Cherelle Griner Play The Newlywed Game

“Why are you trying to go on Judge Judy??”

Samantha Allen, a blonde white woman, in a black and white photo, is superimposed over the cover of her book which is repeated three times. the book is patricia wants to cuddle and it has a sasquatch arm on it holding a tiny woman doing her makeup

AF+

The A+ Book Club Talked with Samantha Allen About the Symbolism of Sasquatches, “The Bachelor” Gossip and More!

Would you cuddle Patricia?

The inscription "Equal Justice Under Law" and accompanying sculpture by Robert Aitken representing "Liberty Enthroned Guarded by Order and Authority" above the main west entrance to the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Politics + Activism

In Today’s Heartbreak, the Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action as We Know It

I have been told that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson does not often use words like “let-them-eat-cake” in her legal writing, but she’s right and she absolutely should say it. Today is a day for being Big Mad.