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Comedy

Things With Mid-August Energy

25. Atypically high utility bills :(

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 13, 2023 5 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #115: Creating, Towards Utopia

The place I went to was no utopia. But it doesn’t stop me from making one myself.

Yao Xiao August 12, 2023 2 Comments
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MONOPOLY GO! Has Made a Monster Out of Me

I’m playing this game by asking myself what my actual favorite top-hatted person would do: And Anne Lister would stop at nothing to become a railroad tycoon! 

Heather Hogan August 12, 2023 8 Comments
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A+ Crossword Is Ordering a Bloody Mary and Tipping Extravagantly

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Rebecca Goldstein August 12, 2023 4 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Valentine’s Gay on “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days”

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Natalie, Valerie Anne and Nic
August 11, 2023 1 Comment
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First Person Movie Features

After We Watched Barbie

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Ocean Wei August 11, 2023 5 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Music

Bravo Dyke Obsessively Breaks Down the Lesbian Fantasy Morgan Wade/Kyle Richards Music Video

Kyle Richards plays Mommi Next Door in Morgan Wade’s new video.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 11, 2023 7 Comments
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Movie Reviews

“Red, White & Royal Blue” Is a Perfect Gay Rom-Com (With Bonus Rachel Maddow and Sarah Shahi)

Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s beloved book is a sweet and sexy delight.

Heather Hogan August 11, 2023 24 Comments
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AF+

The Group Chat: Our Gay Boyfriends

I was a theatre kid for sure, but even by theatre kid standards… if your “dates” involve going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show together? That is homosexual activity, my love.

The Editors August 11, 2023 7 Comments
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Quizzes

How Many of These Queer Sci-Fi / Fantasy TV Shows Can You Identify?

Can you identify these Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV shows with queer, lesbian, trans and bisexual characters from just a picture and the years they were broadcast? There’s only one way to find out!

Riese August 11, 2023 19 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Definitely Played Rugby in College

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Kate Hawkins August 11, 2023 8 Comments
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Music TV Reviews

Netflix’s “Ladies First” Recenters the Women of Hip-Hop in Their Complex Grit, Beauty, and Honesty

Ladies First reinstates Black women as the founders, experts, contributors who quite literally built hip-hop that they are.

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TV Show Recaps

“And Just Like That” It’s Queer Kitten Season for Che Diaz

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Heather Hogan August 10, 2023 7 Comments
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Nico August 10, 2023 25 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Victoria Monét Confirms She Dated Kehlani, Wrote the Forever Sexy “Touch Me” About Her

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Carmen Phillips August 9, 2023 4 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Taylor Swift Really Wanted Her Music to Celebrate Lesbian Love in Heartstopper

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Heather Hogan August 9, 2023 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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Christina Tucker August 9, 2023 1 Comment
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Megan Fox to Participate in Time-Honored Bisexual Tradition of Releasing a Poetry Collection

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Movie Features

In the Symbolic World of the Deeply Gendered Barbieland, Allan Is Nonbinary

Allan’s discomfort creates an identification point for viewers who are also uncomfortable identifying with either the Barbies or the Kens, a third option in an otherwise binary Barbieland.

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