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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

“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 TanaĂŻs
LGBT Book Reviews

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

TanaĂŻs’ 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

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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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Flysexual ArchAndroid Janelle MonĂĄe 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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Literature

Rainbow Reading: Have You Heard About This Queer YA Retelling of Julius Caesar?

Apparently, it promises “bisexuality and backstabbing.” 👀 Get all your LGBTQ+ book news in the latest Rainbow Reading!

Yashwina April 21, 2022 8 Comments
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Webcomics

Foolish Child #118: Work Crush

Only thing I’m worried about is you payin’ 👏this 👏rent 👏!

Dickens April 20, 2022 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson Is Suited Up for Thor: Love and Thunder JSYK

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Heather Hogan April 20, 2022 7 Comments
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TV Reviews

I Didn’t Think “Russian Doll” Season 2 Should Exist — I Was Wrong

Season two pushes the series and its characters into wild new directions, eventually bending those directions back into last season’s story, twisting them, creating a brand new labyrinth to play around in.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 20, 2022 10 Comments
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AF+

Between Orbits: Two Manipulators, Pulled Out of Abuse and Back

Or, the queer urge to almost form a cult with a straight woman.

Nico April 20, 2022 31 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Janelle MonĂĄe Is Reporting From the Future

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Christina Tucker April 20, 2022 2 Comments
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Movie Reviews

Happy 4/20! I Got Extremely High and Watched Elena Undone, the Worst Lesbian Movie

“This is starting to feel pretty gay, Elena.”

Drew Burnett Gregory April 20, 2022 37 Comments
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Society + Culture

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Carmen Phillips April 19, 2022 1 Comment
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

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In this season of Taurus, pay attention to the points of friction in your life, the places where you are being tested or challenged.

meg April 19, 2022 2 Comments
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Breakups

Did My Partner Leave Me Because of My Bipolar Disorder?

My bipolar disorder may have caused my breakup, but I can’t and don’t want to separate my disability from who I am.

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