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Batwoman 214: Ryan and Sophie hold hands
TV Show Recaps

“Batwoman” Episode 214 Recap: And Justice for Some

I believe in loving loud and hard, but also holding the things you love accountable, especially when you know they’re capable of being Great. This show has given us greatness and I believe it still can, and that’s why this hurts so much.  

Nic May 17, 2021 16 Comments
Screenshot from Legends of Tomorrow Episode 603: Zari is surrounded by glitter and extending costume wings at the end of a singing performance.
TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 603 Recap: Zari’s Got Talent

Ava and the Legends end up entering a reality competition singing show on their quest to save Sara, who is poisoned on a mystery planet.

Valerie Anne May 17, 2021 12 Comments
split screen: bette and tina happy on their porch, helena in the interrogation room
Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 608: Last Word

“You can trust someone not to kill you with a knife, but still not trust them with your feelings.”

Riese May 17, 2021 3 Comments
Tommie-Amber Price as Renee with blood on her face pointing a shotgun
Movie Reviews

“The Retreat” Is a New Kind of Lesbian Horror, Full of Catharsis and Dykey Swagger

Despite the real-life horrors queer women face, horror cinema has largely shown queer women as predators. The Retreat attempts to change that.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 17, 2021 2 Comments
In a hand-drawn image in the colors of greens and dark navy blues, a young Asian person with short hair stares at their own image sitting against a mirror inside of a closet.
Identity

How Tam Found Empowerment in the Closet

What are you to do when you are a Vietnamese asexual and aromantic woman who grew up in white, cishet, francophone-dominated Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s?

Diamond Yao May 17, 2021 5 Comments
A collage of 8 images of deep fried appetizers from your favorite chain restaurants
Quizzes

What Chain Restaurant Appetizer Are You?

This quiz will have you wishing you could drive to a suburban strip mall to plop down in a booth and order off a plastic menu.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 16, 2021 31 Comments
Charlie Kicks and Stone Castle
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Would Love It If We Made It

Pelvic pain during sex, changing experiences of love, the best solo sex of your life and more.

Ryan Yates May 16, 2021 7 Comments
In a three panel comic colored in pastel tones, the first panel reads: "I'm Your Dad Now by Rea Strapp." in the second panel two friends ask each other if any gay really has a good relationship with their fathers, in the third panel one of the friends says that they in fact do have a good relationship with their father — which means that, "Now I your Dad"
Webcomics

Reine #21: I’m Your Dad Now

Lesbians make the best father figures.

Ren Strapp May 15, 2021 1 Comment
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
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