In the ten years since Whitney Houston’s passing, one of the sweetest journeys to witness has been the purposeful reclaiming of her legacy by Black queer people.
If you’re looking for a gift that says, “Spank me, Daddy,” I’ve got you covered.
“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
“I wanted to be a landscape or a place that couldn’t be contained.”
Today, the unionized staff of HarperCollins are going on strike, and if you care about queer books and the future of queer publishing, you should care about this.
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I regret to inform you that we’ll also need to find that fedora.
“We met in 1995. I was in grad school and had a job at the campus women’s center. I helped her hang an art show. We later hung out at a feminist science fiction convention. We’ve been together ever since.”
Rebel Wilson welcomes a daughter; the cuddly calm of Sapphic Pop; Janelle Monáe’s suitcase is full of costumes; and more!
Most of my fears are around dying, maybe because I don’t understand it.
“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”
“I know, now the thought of sleeping in is just as exciting as a full blown affair to me.”
Also, DAMN Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts are good at making me feel single!
Escape, however briefly, into this supremely queer crossword made just for you weirdos!
Revisiting Britney Spears’ conservatorship one year later, a photo essay of queer Americana, and it’s no coincidence that the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse is on Election Day.
Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek.
“This mushroom was last seen in a lesbian club circa 2006 wearing a vest and skinny tie.”
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
“How do I get myself to understand what love can really be, after the initial sparks fade?”