It’s #GayleyKiyokoWeek on Twitter and Instagram, Which Means Hayley Kiyoko Kissing Girls
Kiyoko has a new song coming out this week and has declared it officially #GayleyKiyokoWeek (my new favorite holiday) on Twitter and Instagram.
Alex G Is Bisexual: YouTube Musician Inspired by Evan Rachel Wood to Come Out
“In the LGBTQ community there’s not a lot of people coming out saying ‘I am bisexual,’ and I wanted to do that, because it really has been helpful for me to see other people out there with influence talking about their sexual orientation in a way that made sense to me.”
Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
A Playlist for When You Break Up In Autumn
As an 11-year relationship ended and the dust settled around me a couple weeks ago, I realized something: I needed music, I needed someone in my ear telling me everything I’m feeling and seeing wasn’t new and unknowable, that this was A Thing That Happens.
Playlist: Bi Visibility Week
“For me, listening to music has always been a source of power, especially when the music I listen to is by other bi and queer folks.”
Playlist: End Of The World
Let’s unwind and imagine that everything is fine for 47 minutes with this End Of The World Playlist.
QTPOC Roundtable: Queer Anthem Playlist
There’s just some songs that make you want to shout and dance and that make you feel proud to be queer.
Well Damn, Kesha’s “Rainbow” Is a Complicated Reclamation of Pride and Strength
It’s got the desperate earnestness of a confession, the tenderness of sharing a secret with your best friend and the raw emotion and heart of a bridesmaid’s speech, graduation speech and eulogy put together.
Some Real and Definitely Not Made Up Ani DiFranco B-Sides
No one knows how this happened, but the first time you came out to someone between 1990 and 2005, there was a person waiting just outside of the conversation ready to hand you a set of headphones playing Ani DiFranco.
Playlist: Songs That Give Me That 2:30 Feeling
Is there a German word for happy songs that feel like a wrecking ball to your serotonin levels?
Concert Recap: Tegan & Sara “The Con” Tour, Webster Hall, November 2007
“They are the two cutest people on the entire planet and I want tattoos like theirs.”
Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Con,” Which Changed Our Lives
“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”
Thank you, Chester Bennington: The Queer Strength I Found in Linkin Park
“Chester Bennington’s anger was so present and so empathic. It told me it was okay that I had it too— that I wasn’t alone, that my feelings were normal. It replaced my fear, and it helped me survive.”
Let “New Black Swing” Hypnotize You with Smooth Summer Vibes
“Vibes. It’s all about the energy I share, the energy we share with one another. Whether in public or in private, in romance or otherwise. I think about the deepest times in my life and how I dealt with them through music with a bounce, catchy melodies and poetic sentiments.”
Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.
14 Music Videos That Confirmed My Sexuality
“Soft butches everywhere? I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but this is mine.”
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Your Type” Is a Moody Trans Girl Anthem
My favorite Carly Rae Jepsen song is “Your Type” — maybe because it’s so easy to read a trans girl subtext into the lyrics.
OK Guys, Which Celesbian Is The New St Vincent Song About?
This song is quietly ruining my life.
Playlist: Fuck Independence Day, Celebrate Black Women Instead
I will not celebrate a country in which 11 of the 14 trans people of color murdered this year have been black women. I will not celebrate a country currently run by fascists and white supremacists. I will not eat your bland potato salad. I will not celebrate a country that does not celebrate me.
Gloria Carter, Blue Ivy’s Grandma, Comes Out As a Lesbian on Jay Z’s “4:44”
Beyoncé’s husband released a new album, but what I’m excited about is the track titled “Smile” where his mother, Gloria Carter, comes out as a lesbian.