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Against a purple background, Dickens screams FALL IS HERE!
Webcomics

Foolish Child #104: FALL! 🍃🍂🍁

Is there anything more dystopian than twirling around in falling ash?

Dickens September 22, 2021 1 Comment
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes: Libra Season 2021

A sign associated with art, beauty, harmony, balance, and aesthetics, Libra is the energy of the connoisseur, with refined tastes and sophisticated desires.

meg September 22, 2021 2 Comments
Azie Tesfai as The Guardian on Supergirl
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Azie Tesfai Is the First Arrowverse Actor to Write Her Own Superhero Story

Also! The trailer for Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in Passing, Abby McEnany charms Seth Myers, Reservation Dogs will have an all Indigenous writers room for season two, and more!

Heather Hogan September 22, 2021 4 Comments
Supergirl 612: Kelly as Guardian in her new suit
TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 612: Look. Listen.

Kelly struggles to get the Superfriends to help with the situation in the Heights as she steps into her role as Guardian.

Valerie Anne September 22, 2021 7 Comments
The purple bubble letter logo of Wait Is This a Date against a lime green background. To the right, a photo of heather hogan is in a circle. Above the photo is the theme of this week's episode, "Love Is Not a Lie"
Dating Podcasts

“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 107: Love Is Not a Lie

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Drew Burnett Gregory September 22, 2021 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Holland Is Posting Incredible BTS Emmy Photos of Sarah Paulson, We Love to See It

Hayley Kiyoko’s first ever Vogue shoot! And let us all put our hands together in a spooky homosexual round of applause for the newly out legend, Elvira! Welcome to No Filter ma’m!

Christina Tucker September 22, 2021 4 Comments
JoJo Siwa on Dancing with Stars, flexing her muscles in a joke
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Here’s JoJo Siwa Making History, so You Don’t Actually Have to Watch Dancing With the Stars

Lil Nas X covers Jolene and you will probably cry, Gabrielle Union on taking Zaya Wade to her first Pride, and the Top 25 Greatest WNBA players in history.

Carmen Phillips September 21, 2021 15 Comments
Elvira, who came out as gay in her new memoir, in a black and white photo from 1987, in a low cut black dress and laying down to the side.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Is a Member of the Alphabet Mafia

Congratulations to Cassandra Peterson on this incredible news, and just in time for the Halloween season, like god what a fucking icon.

danijanae September 21, 2021 26 Comments
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The L Word: Generation Q TV News & Trailers

The L Word Generation Q Season 2: Everything We Know

In new pictures from Episode 210, “Last Call,” we have an airplane, a kitchen supply store, clapping, frowning, hand-holding and a lot of mustard yellow.

Riese September 21, 2021 80 Comments
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“The Circle” Season 3: If Your Quarantine Life Was Suddenly a Game Show

“Sometimes everybody is so stupid I just want to scream!”

the team September 21, 2021 10 Comments
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Friendship

You Need Help: I Feel Left Out By My New Friends

Don’t be afraid to say what you want — meaningful, ongoing friendship. There are people out there who are looking for the same thing.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 21, 2021 10 Comments
Rachel and Isabel read together on the lawn
TV Show Recaps

“Fantasy Island” Is Here With That Lesbian “Pride and Prejudice” Fan Fic You Asked For

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in trousers and a waistcoat is a lesbian.

Heather Hogan September 20, 2021 7 Comments
Podcasts The L Word: Generation Q

“To L and Back” Generation Q Podcast Episode 207: Light

“I’ve been very precious about getting my hair wet but I would get my hair wet to kiss Gigi in the rain.”

Analyssa September 20, 2021 5 Comments
Three photo collage of the Emmys red carpet: Samira Wiley in a black suit, MJ Rodrigiez in a teal gown, and Sarah Paulson in a red gown
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Queers Shine on Red Carpet as The Emmys Continue Their Racism and Ableism

New trailers for Batwoman and Legends of Tomorrow, a live-action She-Ra coming to Amazon, and more Emmy pics!

Heather Hogan September 20, 2021 1 Comment
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TV Feature

Dua Saleh on “Sex Education,” Cal’s Sexuality, and the Trans Language Barrier

“It feels really good and kind of dreamlike that this was my debut role.”

Drew Burnett Gregory September 20, 2021 17 Comments
Eight of the selections from this quiz: Frida Kahlo, Babe Didrikson, Anne Lister, Lizzie Borden, Josephine Baker, Hattie McDaniel, Emily Dickinson, and Eleanor Roosevelt
Quizzes

QUIZ: Which Gay Ghost Is Haunting Your House?

Don’t be scared. A gay ghost friend is just a gay friend who happens to be a ghost.

Heather Hogan September 19, 2021 20 Comments
Elise Graves, Margot Rose
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Ever-Changing

Why taking estrogen makes your cum delicious, how to date someone with whom you have a height difference, how poly relationships shifted in the pandemic and more.

Ryan Yates September 19, 2021 4 Comments
A white woman lies on the floor on a pink velvet blanket. Her face is not entirely visible, you can only see her mouth and her chin, and four candles are in the foreground
First Person

Lying On The Floor With My Grief

I wanted to exist with my grief in my body, not so much in my mind.

Vanessa September 18, 2021 6 Comments
A femme Asian woman in her 30s is fresh faced from the shower and has a towel wrapped around her face.
Beauty Shopping

A Lazy Femme Guide To Staying Cute With Minimal Effort

I’m all about products and routines that work with my busy schedule. I’m obviously not lazy, but if lazy femme is the antithesis to high femme, I’m very much that.

KaeLyn September 18, 2021 29 Comments
The L Word: Generation Q TV Show Recaps

The L Word Generation Q Episode 207 Recap: Light Me Up

Everybody is either having sex or embarrassing themselves or both!

Riese September 17, 2021 131 Comments
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