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Gender

You Need Help: I’m a Trans Woman Looking For Affirming Lesbian Content

The point is this: it sucks that we still have to struggle with inclusion in lesbian community, your feelings are valid, and I hope you’ll be OK whether or not you can find enough trans lesbian-specific content online. Now, with all of that bluster out of the way, here are some recommendations.

Abbie Jones April 26, 2022 13 Comments
In the bottom right corner of the image, there is a black line drawing of two women with 1950s hairstyles whispering to each other against a pink background. In the upper left corner, there is a speech bubble. Inside the speech bubble, there is an image of black fabric restraints attached to long, black straps.
Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Sportsheets Under the Bed Restraint System

No matter how much she begged, pleaded and yanked on the straps, she was securely held in place and entirely at my mercy.

Guest April 26, 2022
the cast of better things against a gold backdrop
TV Reviews

Saying Goodbye to “Better Things,” A Five-Season Balm Against Cynicism

It will remind you why the world is worth saving and why life is worth living.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 26, 2022 6 Comments
In a still from Hulu's crush, Rowan Blanchard's Paige is smiling while facing right of camera, she is making Auli'i Cravalho's AJ blush. The lighting is shades of blue and purple. Paige is in a red dress with brunette hair half up in a pony tail. AJ is in a black and white striped shirt with brunette wavy hair in a messy bob.
Movie Features

Auli’i Cravalho on Coming Out on TikTok, Midnight Heartfelt Queer Convos, and Hulu’s “Crush”

“Laying down next to a pretty girl in moonlight and talking about our feelings, like… it’s just movie magic.”

Analyssa April 25, 2022 3 Comments
The album cover of You Can't Fuck The Internet features Amelia Jackie in red lipstick being spoonfed liquid
Music

You Can’t Fuck the Internet but You Can Try: An Interview With Queer Folk Singer-Songwriter Amelia Jackie

As I listen through Amelia Jackie’s queer folk album, again and again, I feel a fullness that is not unlike eating your favorite comfort food.

danijanae April 25, 2022 6 Comments
Budd Lightyear standing in front of a waving lesbian flag and saluting
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
A mirror image of two open doors, and behind them each an open door, and behind each of those open doors, another. The effect of the image is relatively sinister.
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
drawings of Tuulikki Pietilä & Tove Jansson, Nicey Nash & Jessica Betts, Dorothy Arzner & Marion Morgan. Drawings by Ren Strapp
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
The cover of Flung Out of Space: Patricia Highsmith stares out a window with her cat while smoking a cigarette.
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
The following albums are featured: Baduizm by Erykah Badu, Love Deluxe by Sade, Brown Sugar by D’Angelo, Janet by Janet Jackson, I’m Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton by Toni Braxton, and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
Music Quizzes

Quiz: Which 90s R&B Album Are You?

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
The books She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen, Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin, Girl Crushed by Katie Heaney, and Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan are arranged between a soccer field, a track field, a basketball hoop, and a baseball diamond.
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
Drag Race Season 14 Finale: Lady Camden and Willow Pill stand on stage in their final lip sync looks as RuPaul's head floats above them on a big screen.
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
In a two panel hand drawn comic, Baopu walks outside in a mask and also rides a train in a mask.
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
GRACE PARK, CAMERON ESPOSITO
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!

Natalie and Valerie Anne
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
Basil against a blue background
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

“I saved this article when I was a closeted 17-year-old kid: I think this was the first time I realized what non-binary meant! Anyway, I’m 21 now, and now in college I get to dress like this every day and it’s fuckin awesome!”

Darcy April 22, 2022 7 Comments
In Sensorium: Notes For My People by Tanaïs
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
Yasmin Finney as Elle Argent wears a school uniform and glasses while in a classroom.
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

Also.Also.Also: Buckle up for the Coachella Lesbian Instagram Meet Cute That’s Straight Out of a RomCom

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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