Lesbians’ Home Set On Fire, World Still Crazy, Mean
This is a really depressing news day, but on the bright side, at least you only have to read about it, and not have your house burned down or endure a custody battle in court.
Senate Taking Up Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Next Week, With Strings Attached
Things continue to move forward remarkably rapidly in terms of a repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell! Senator Harry Reid announces that the bill dealing with a possible repeal will be brought to the Senate floor this week.
MTV 2010 VMA Recap: Just the Lady Gaga, Gay and Douchebag-Toasting Parts
Last night Lady Gaga wore a dress made out of meat, and won eight MTV Video Music Awards. Also, Taylor Swift wrote in her diary about Kanye West, and then sang it out loud to a crowd of humans.
Lady Gaga Brings DADT Discharges to VMAs, Is a Dreamer, Is Not the Only One
In which things continue to happen w/r/t Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, including Lady Gaga, and we wonder to what extent they will maybe bring us incrementally closer to an actual repeal someday.
Books, Lady Gaga, Ellen Page and Rachel Bilson Are The Lesbian Future
The future will come bearing many new lesbian books that will be warmly received by the mainstream, as well as college classes on Lady Gaga, new Ellen Page comedies, Ellen Degeneres on the catwalk, and Daria to answer all of your life’s questions. Daria, what should I do with my Sunday? Daria says you should read the Sunday Funday.
DADT Ruled Unconstitutional: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is Told Not To Ask, We’re Told
Today a US District Court judge ruled that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell violates the First and Fifth amendments, and issued an injunction to stop the military from further discharges. We also had no idea this was even happening today.
Apparently Everyone Just F*cking Loves Us Now
The official record of this one day when a bunch of stories on Google News made it seem as though the world cared about us, like we were real people. We have no explanation.
Lady Gaga Covers Vogue Hommes Japan in Male Drag, Is Sexier Than Danny Zuko
THE WAIT IS OVER: Lady Gaga’s male drag cover shoot has hit newsstands (in Japan) and the oddly-translated article and full photoshoot is really just to die for. YOU KNOW WHO ELSE LOOKS HOT RIGHT NOW? Lindsay F*cking Lohan for Fornarina. Also; Ellen DeGeneres on Letterman, Amber Rose at Gay Pride, Glee and Amos Mac.
Good News, Ladies: You Can Be Good At Math, Bad At Feelings
Feel free to be a brilliant scientist and total emotional wrecking ball today as an author debunks all the gender myths about how your brain is too female to function.
Lady Gaga Wants to Gay Marry Her Fans, Therefore Must Be “Manic”
SMACKDOWN: Did you know that wanting to marry same-sex couples on stage at your Monsterball is one of the DSM-IV criteria for diagnosing bipolar disorder? US NEITHER. Lady Gaga is gonna be surprised.
The Long Slow March Towards A DADT Repeal: A Story Told In Screenshots
Happy Labor Day, we got you these infuriating screencaps of the Department of Defense’s “online inbox” to survey soldiers on a “possible repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” It’s a good thing you have the day off because all we feel able to do is “lie in bed and mourn the soul of America.”
Anti-Gay Christian Conservatives Are The New George W. Bush: HILARIOUS!
This week we learn that sometimes, things on the Internet that are too funny to be true aren’t actually true. We will survive this. Also, good gay advice columns, nebulous news on Beth Ditto and Nicki Minaj, and also good news for people who aren’t Brits but want to be and are also persecuted for their homosexuality!
Listicle Without Commentary: Reactions to a Photograph of Rachel Maddow & Ira Glass
Ira Glass and Rachel Maddow are in a photograph together. How does that make you feel?
Court Foils Anti-Gays’ Prop 8 Appeal: You Can’t Make Brown & Schwarzenegger Love You If They Don’t
Surprise! An extremist right-wing group is trying to strong-arm Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger into defending Prop 8! But nobody has stronger arms than Arnold, don’t they know that? Also: international gay news including gay adoption in Australia and your Gay Republicans update.
33 Seconds of GLEE, 10 Books and Oscar-Worthy Lesbian Sex in ‘Black Swan’
Glee season 2 promo in an Empire State of Mind, list of the most anticipated LGBT books for fall, Gaga covers V’s fall New York issue, Natalie Portman getting serious Oscar buzz for Black Swan, and it’s now the boys turn to exploit their fabulous gay lives on national television.
Slaughterhouse 10: Magazines We Miss, Like PASTE, Which Died Today
Life changes, people grow up, and sometimes magazines catch up with Tegan & Sara and then fold. Here’s 10 magazines we miss like runaway puppies.
Lesbians ‘Reflect Changes in China’ by Kissing ‘Romantically,’ Sporting ‘Boyish Fashions’
In China, “transformative change” is observed when two teenage girls, one with a “masculine hairstyle,” kissed on the subway “in an unmistakably romantic way.” Meanwhile in the US, someone’s son wants to wear a dress, someone else’s son comes out every day and pro-gay-bullying organization feels bullied. Kids these days!
Lindsay Lohan is BACK, Baby: Covers Vanity Fair, is a ‘Damn Good Actress.’
Lindsay Lohan is on the cover of Vanity Fair, lookin’ pretty rehabilitated. Jane Lynch’s acceptance speech at the Emmys, Ruby Rose is interviewed, video of Real L Word’s Tracy & Stamie reading our recap of Fashion Week and Lindsay Lohan may be nude for all of Machete.
How Elena Kagan’s Femalecore Ladyflower Wimmyny Womanhood Could Change the World For Real
Remember how Elena Kagan was confirmed as the third woman currently on the Supreme Court? I know, it’s been easy to forget about. Maybe she can still save the day for women as far as SCOTUS is concerned, though, just by checking “female” on her tax forms!
62nd Annual Emmy Awards 2010: Awards Shows Are So Gay These Days
We’re watching the Emmys because of peer pressure. Everyone else is doing it.