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Screenshot from Legacies: Bisexual witch Josie smiles as she goes in to kiss her queer werewolf gal pal as sparks literally fly behind them.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: When We Say Sparks Are Flying on “Legacies,” They Are LITERALLY Flying

Plus updates on New Amsterdam, Charmed, Nancy Drew, and Top Chef. Also “Gen Q: Season 2″… this summer perhaps?

The TV Team May 14, 2021 13 Comments
Shrill Fran and Emily sit together on the couch
TV Reviews

“Shrill” Gives Fran the Queer Joy She Deserves in the Final Season

I look at her and I see my killer body, my effervescent personality, my sweet determination, and even my quietest fears.

Shelli Nicole May 14, 2021 7 Comments
Mythic Quest queer gamers: Dana and Rachel sit on a couch with gamer headphones on smiling at each other.
TV Reviews

Mythic Quest’s Queer Season 2 Storyline Gets Gamer Girl High Score

The Mythic Quest queer storyline features Ashly Burch as game tester Rachel who has a big lesbian crush on her co-tester, Imani Hakim’s Dana.

Valerie Anne May 14, 2021 8 Comments
Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Summer (Busy Philipps), and Gloria (Paula Pell) in Girls5Eva gay
TV Reviews

Okay Tina Fey’s “Girls5Eva” Really Is Super Great and Super Gay

Girls5Eva is honestly hilarious — and it’s a lot easier to feel like you’re in on the gay jokes when you’re actually represented on-screen. 

Heather Hogan May 14, 2021 5 Comments
A composite of four photos of models wearing some really solid mommi-inspired shorts.
Queer Fashion Shopping

So You Want to Wear Shorts This Summer

We covered the return of the 90s and the 70s in our last edition, and you can expect to see that trend continuing here! The 90s influence is especially strong in the athletic short space — think Princess Diana and her iconic bike shorts. The 70s vibes are coming in hot with prints and patterns, which I personally am digging!

Christina Tucker May 14, 2021 15 Comments
the featured image for the story; our narrator in the love circle. Her hand is on the butch base's knee and she's got one eye open to look at them.
Poetry and Fiction

Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp

Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short hair. Muscular, athletic body. My hand on an unfamiliar, living knee.

Nat Mesnard May 14, 2021 4 Comments
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 Really Into the Void

“The last quiz revealed I am Anne Lister’s boots. Now my gender is ‘a tiny piece of arugula stuck between Tilda Swinton’s teeth.’ I can see where this is coming from but I am starting to feel slightly concerned.”

Darcy May 14, 2021 5 Comments
Alison Bechdel is against a white background in a black t shirt and black glasses. Next to her is a cut out of a television set with the cover of "Dykes to Watch Out For" photoshopped inside of it
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Alison Bechdel Is Working on a “Dykes to Watch Out For” Animated TV Series!

Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.

Carmen Phillips May 13, 2021 3 Comments
Carol and Maria look longingly at each other in Captain Marvel
Movie Features

I Still Can’t Believe Marvel’s Never Heard of Bisexuality

Captain Marvel is so gay the writers had to add a line of dialogue to try to convince the audience Maria and Carol slept in different rooms. You know, on account of the house they shared and the daughter they were raising together.

Heather Hogan May 13, 2021 13 Comments
A lavender person with a bald head looks up with desire as they straddles a lime green flexed foot. Both are dripping.
AF+

S L I C K: Syd Sysco Volume LXIX: At the Feet of the Goo Empress of 61 Cygni

It was her. Her thighs, her stomach, her chin, her eyes, her balls, her lips, her long fingers. Her breasts like year-long tear drops hanging against a backdrop of soft white clouds in the sky. She sat down on the stone facade and her thighs spread like water.

Aegor Ray May 13, 2021 2 Comments
Carol asking Abby, "Really? You think you got what it takes to handle a redhead?"
TV Lists

16 Fictional Queer Redheads You Can’t Handle

Carol Aird knew what she was talking about when she said you can’t handle a redhead.

Heather Hogan May 13, 2021 17 Comments
Love + Sex

The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women

Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space as Asian women.

xoai pham May 13, 2021 5 Comments
Screenshot from Supergirl: Alex and Kelly look down at the spaceship's interface.
TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 607 Recap: Nightmare Before Hiatus

In the mid-season finale, Lena and Kelly join Alex and the team and face their worst fears as they make one final push to save Kara.

Valerie Anne May 12, 2021 4 Comments
Ellen DeGeneres sits on the set of her talkshow in a white blazer, blue button-up, and jeans
TV Feature

Ellen DeGeneres Is Ending Her Talk Show Amid Endless Backlash (But Reportedly Not Because of Backlash)

I’m grateful for Ellen. And I hope she does continue to try to do as much good as she can in the world. I also hope, along the way, she learns that calls for civility have most often been used to silence the oppressed, that kindness is not justice, and that being nice isn’t enough. 

Heather Hogan May 12, 2021 21 Comments
A screenshot of a mother's day Instagram post in which Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris are cradling their baby on a sofa.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Well, I Was Unprepared for Ali Krieger’s Mom to Be Hot

Alright, let’s bring on the hot moms!

Christina Tucker May 12, 2021 2 Comments
Margot Robie as Harley Quinn
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Margot Robbie Wants to Kiss on Poison Ivy in the Next Birds of Prey

Aubrey Plaza will play cartoon Satan’s mom, Laverne Cox will anchor E!’s red carpet, Mare of Easttown’s bad hair rule, Freeform’s queer summer shows have premiere dates, and more!

Heather Hogan May 12, 2021 3 Comments
Demi Lovato in a couch with a poster of The X-Files iconic "I Want to Believe" poster
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Demi Lovato’s Going UFO Hunting, Wants to Believe

Plus: The story behind Stacey Abrams fiction career, the WNBA’s 25 firsts on their 25th anniversary, Tumblr is trying to win back queers after driving them away, what does “cancel culture” even mean anymore, and more!

Heather Hogan May 11, 2021 3 Comments
Two women standing inside a doorframe in a dark space, turning to look at each other
Lesbian Sex

You Need Help: I Thought We Were Both Switches, but My Girlfriend Won’t Touch Me

It sounds like your idea of your sexual dynamic with your girlfriend isn’t lining up with the reality of it.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 11, 2021 13 Comments
a collage of three textures - a green forest, a black night sky and a royal blue lipstick mark. there is a flock of birds flying above the composition, and in the far distance, you can see the thin sliver of a crescent moon
First Person

When Love Is A Matter Of Desperation

Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.

himani May 11, 2021 26 Comments
Pose recap: Elektra's family toasting her at dinner
TV Show Recaps

“Pose” Episode 303 Recap: A Tale of Two Mothers

Elektra remembers her fraught relationship with her own mom, and how she became the mom her children needed.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu May 11, 2021 4 Comments
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