Welcome to another Short Fiction Playlist! In honor of Valentine’s Day, today’s theme is queer sex! Dig into these five stories featuring a sex-talking parrot, period sex, gay clubs, spanking, and more.
Just like “red flags” can tell you a person might be toxic, overly controlling, or unavailable emotionally, looking for “green flags” can tell you if your partner is, generally, a pretty solid person worth continuing to invest in!
We’re looking to bring some more writers on our team and listen — maybe perhaps you are one of them?
This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel.
I asked some of my friends whether they had any love songs that they still love today, originally given to them by exes.
“This is a riff on Marsha P. Johnson saying her P. stood for ‘pay it no mind’ and this ‘homage’ with the added capitalist flair may be the single most accurate distillation of RuPaul’s Drag Race ever.”
Fill your Instagram feed with allllllll the pastries, breads, and sweet treats by following these queer bakers and queer-owned bakeries.
Plus also! Updates on The Real Dirty Dancing, 4400, Queens and grown-ish.
Let’s take Valentine’s Day by its fuzzy, pink horns and hold on for dear life.
“Yes, give me a Nordic woman who can ski a lot then shoot an animal and haul it back to our cabin for dinner! Sign me up!”
This song is well-suited for so many licentious scenarios.
The melodrama of So Jealous is hard to resist. It’s emotionally indulgent heartbreak music, whether your heart is breaking or not. And now, it’s back.
Black queer businesses to support this Black History Month, Samira Wiley on body shaming, and yes that “should you wear shoes in other people’s homes” discourse that’s going around.
Gia wakes up from a passionate sex dream and puts her favorite vibrator to work. “She felt her own wetness against their hand, allowing her to move faster with more soft moans tumbling out of her mouth.”
Batwoman is on hiatus until the Winter Olympics are over, which is probably why my heart is STARVING TO DEATH.
You can’t see the stars in the city I live in, so I would spend my nights out on my balcony, drinking, letting my eyesight go slack and drift into the black.
Learn more about the book whose “highlights include: a May/December queer romance, psychopaths on the loose, and a school for bad girls….” Plus, more book news and recommendations, including lots of author interviews and upcoming queer lit events!
Well, let me know if you need anything. Like… a second booster shot.
Yellowjackets and Euphoria’s music supervisor only chooses “fucking bangers,” a Niecy Nash spin-off of The Rookie, and a new thriller from Cara Delevingne.
Vada, the lead of The Fallout, is just a normal high schooler. And it’s all a normal day in a normal life, until it’s not.