Margaret Cho stars in Fire Island, here she is in a red knit crop top showing off her tattoos while standing with her castmates (all of whom are gay men, also dressed for summer) on a boardwalk on Fire Island.

Movie Reviews

“Fire Island” Is a Perfect Summer Reminder of How We Find Our Families

The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.

Roswell New Mexico: Isobel kisses Anatsa

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: “Roswell, New Mexico” Proves Multiple Queer Couples Can Co-Exist!

Plus updates on Charmed, Legacies, and All Rise!

Shot from Freeform's "The Deep End" surrounded by geometric signs

Health

Obsessed: Spiritual Guru and Alleged Arcturian Alien Teal Swan

Culty spiritual leader and self-proclaimed genius healer Teal Swan is the subject of Hulu’s “The Deep End,” Gizmodo’s “The Gateway,” and also my nightmares

A box filled with the book Cinderella Is Dead, the album Dirty Computer, the album Montero, and the book Against Heaven: Poems

LGBT Pride

Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!

Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!

Christen Press and Tobin Heath wearing shirts that say "GAY VIBES" and "a day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine"

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Tobin Heath Says “Gay Vibes,” Christen Press Says “No Days Without Lesbians”

Just a couple of BEST FRIENDS in matching clothes. :)

Queer Swimwear 2022: Photo 1: A Black woman wears a green and white asymmetrical swimsuit with cutouts on the side. Photo 2: A pair of flamingo patterned swim trunks. Photo 3: A white masculine of center person wears a white and red striped swim tank with red swim shorts. Photo 4: A Black woman wears a rainbow patterned bikini.

Queer Fashion

So You Want To Wear a Bathing Suit

Behold a bunch of suits that have the structural integrity to stand up to some serious wave action and that are absolutely gonna keep you looking fresh and stylish!

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Legs Out and Faces Painted for Pride

“Please do the sunscreen first, THEN the face paint, or you may end up with tan lines that say BI BI BI on your face! Just for instance!”

Rachel Sennott as Hannah sits up on a couch leaning in to Madeline Grey DeFreece as Carrie.

Movie Reviews

“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth

This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.

A person with long red hair wearing a black shirt and semi translucent skirt, holds their fingers up in two peace signs. they have long nails, are wearing rose tinted glasses, have a septum piercing, and are wearing black headphones. The background looks like a soundwave.

AF+

Member2Member Advice: Pod Swap

Members, come share your podcast and Youtube recommendations with each other!

A subway car's door is open, and inside it is a pixelated image of Nevada by Imogen Binnie

First Person

“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness

This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Rebel Wilson Has a Girlfriend, Her Very Own “Disney Princess”

Happy Pride!

a white person's legs are seen walking down a set of old stairs, and she is wearing sneakers and holding a pink cane and wearing black leggings. there are two red flower stickers on the image

First Person LGBT Pride

I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer

In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose.

A white woman is wearing a white tank top and looking down at her stomach, but her face is obscured. She is surrounded by a beach, tropical plants, and blueberries.

Queer Pregnancy

How To Survive a Miscarriage by Marathoning 168 Episodes of “Survivor”

One thing you have in common with every contestant on the classic CBS reality television competition program Survivor is that you are not pregnant.

070 Shake's album cover for "You Can't Kill Me" shows 070 Shake's face covered by a large white flower against a jet black background

Music

070 Shake Is Free In “You Can’t Kill Me”

If I could describe 070 Shake’s sophomore album in one word, it’d be freedom. She embraces the infinite.

A woman with short blonde hair dances with headphones around her neck. She is wearing a cut off jean vest and a flannel underneath. She is dancing with another woman with brown hair in a ponytail who is wearing a windbreaker. They are surrounded by a floral border.

LGBT Pride Playlists

Playlist: Summer Songs To Dance to During Pride When You Have an Unbearable Crush

“Girls Make Me Wanna Die,” a new single by The Aces, dropped today. So we made a playlist all about queer crushes.

The book cover of This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch features gold glitter. It's framed by two identical wavy clocks against a background with wavy lines.

LGBT Book Reviews LGBT Pride

In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”

Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.

Ariana DeBose and Evan Rachel Wood against a backdrop of Central Perk from Friends, and also Wall-E and Eve are in the window in the background

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is Crushing on Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld’s NYC-ish New Season

The Motherland: Fort Salem season three trailer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is adding a non-binary character, Ms. Marvel is finally on Disney+, and more!