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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: The Buzz Lightyear Movie Gets its Lesbian Kiss Back From Sad, Strange Little Disney

Also! Gentleman Jack is back tonight on HBO, how Selena became a queer Latinx classic, Beanie Feldstein’s Funny Girl opens on Broadway, and more!

Heather Hogan April 25, 2022 3 Comments
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AF+

A+ Roundtable: Our Worst Roommate Experiences

“The day I moved in she put one of those HRC equal sign stickers on the fridge lol. So performative!”

the team April 25, 2022 24 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Sponsored

16 Lesbian Power Couples We Love From the 19th Century to the Present Day

The only thing better than one extraordinarily accomplished queer woman is two of them, in love!

Riese April 25, 2022 20 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

“Flung Out of Space” Grapples With Patricia Highsmith’s Misanthropic Lesbian Life

Patricia Highsmith liked three things: women, writing, and cigarettes.

Heather Hogan April 25, 2022 14 Comments
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Music Quizzes

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I find myself turning to 90s R&B when I’m really in my feelings. Like deep in my feelings.

danijanae April 24, 2022 18 Comments
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Book Lists Sports

Unleash Your Inner Jock With These 10 Sporty Gay Romance and YA Books

Sports! They make us gay, and we can’t get enough of reading about them!

Sally April 24, 2022 69 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1416 Recap: Shoutout to Kornbread’s Ankle

Vegas + Reality TV Finale + RuPaul = insanity.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 23, 2022 9 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #98: A Day In Life

Sometimes the creative process involves lots of time on public transportation, plenty of snacks and the radio.

Yao Xiao April 23, 2022 7 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Uh Oh, These “A Million Little Things” Lesbos Are U-Hauling Already!

Plus updates on Charmed, Top Chef, All American, All American: Homecoming, and NCIS: Hawai’i!

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April 22, 2022 5 Comments
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Queer Fashion

Obsessed: Abercrombie and Fitch’s Bleak “American Dream” and Its Very Bizarre Quarterly Magalog

Inspired by Netflix’s “White Hot: Abercrombie & Fitch,” a journey into the brand’s appalling history, the super-weird A&F Quarterly (and its lesbian wedding!), the Look Policy handbook, an apparent comeback and more.

Riese April 22, 2022 20 Comments
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Food Lists House & Garden

You Could Be Growing Basil Right Now

The thing about growing your own basil is that you’re going to consume a lot of basil. But of all problems to have, doesn’t this one sound nice? Having just simply too goddamn much basil? The dream!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 22, 2022 24 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Putting ‘Dirty Computer’ On Repeat

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Darcy April 22, 2022 7 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir

Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.

Em Win April 22, 2022
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TV Reviews

Netflix’s “Heartstopper” Includes a Trans Girl in Its Sweet Coming-of-Age Tale

It’s nice that trans people are included in this saccharine world at a time when many are trying keep us excluded.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 22, 2022 6 Comments
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Society + Culture

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Can Mariah Carey teach you how to sing? Unfair wages in the WNBA, and the author of “Little Women” is a trans icon.

Carmen Phillips April 21, 2022 8 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Flysexual ArchAndroid Janelle Monáe Confirms She Is Nonbinary!

“Queers around the world feel validated in their thirst and the kinship they feel with Janelle’s music and style.”

danijanae April 21, 2022 7 Comments
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TV Reviews

Gillian Anderson Brings Eleanor Roosevelt’s Lesbian Love to Life in Showtime’s “First Lady”

I just wish First Lady had cast Hick with as much care. We deserve to see an imposing butch lesbian bossing the White House around.

Heather Hogan April 21, 2022 4 Comments
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Community Sponsored

The LGBTQ Outdoor Summit Centered Queer and Trans Joy in the Outdoors

For a brief moment, we were part of a temporary but powerful queer community in the woods.

Nico April 21, 2022 6 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 407 Recap: Control (or Something Like It)

Alice breaks down after a big gay fight about nothing, and Malika’s not letting The Fosters keep all that gay pool fun to themselves.

Natalie April 21, 2022 3 Comments
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Queer Fashion Shopping

Five Plus-Size Outfits for Honoring the Ultimate Lesbian: Mother Earth

Here are five earthy looks with an emphasis on “slow fashion.”

danijanae April 21, 2022 8 Comments
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