Foolish Child #86: Dinosaurs
This child wouldn’t allow me to draw in peace unless I was drawing dinosaurs. It’s fine — I’ll just say something queer and relatable.
Pop Culture Fix: Shondaland’s “Bridgerton” Is Confirmed Queer (At Least Briefly)
Two days until Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom(!!), Jo Ellen Pellman knew her people were out there, nonbinary TV characters had a landmark year, what ODAAT’s final episodes would have been, Black Swan is a Hanukkah movie(?), and more.
Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for All Sensations
Today, toys are less about a harder better faster stronger version of more of the same, and all about the different ways it’s possible to experience pleasure and sensation.
Finding Magic After a Difficult Year
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by crashing Towers and painful Deaths, the big changes and shifts within and around us, the endings and releasings and restructurings. But even when we aren’t sure what the fruits of our labors will be just yet, that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. Sometimes we shift and change in the darkest spaces, hidden from the world and even ourselves, slowly adapting until we are transformed from within.
No Filter: Hayley Kiyoko in Nature, Listening to Sarah Mclachlan, Casually Leveling Up the Gay
Sarah Paulson’s dog is the face of your next holigay card, Stacy London’s hair is just so shiny, and Ashlyn Harris even makes Ivy Park face masks look good.
Also.Also.Also: You Deserve a Break, Here’s Some Cute Queer Celebrities and Their Even Cuter Pets
It’s Nancy Meyers Week somewhere in the world! Also: James Baldwin’s magnificent friendships, throples making history, and will 2020 be the year we lost forever?
Merry Fistmas and a Happy New Transcript!
We have the transcript as well as links to any products that were shown during Merry Fistmas: A Virtual Vaginal Fisting Workshop, AND the link to the recording, all wrapped up for you right here!
You Need Help: My Partner’s Pandemic Practices Suck and I Want to Break Up
Transmitting a deadly virus doesn’t exactly say “I love you,” so it makes sense that this particular conflict is bringing up big questions about your relationship.
HBO Max’s “Veneno” is the Television Masterpiece Trans Icon Cristina La Veneno Deserves
For me, what makes the show so unique are the moments Valeria spends with Cristina and Paca and all the other trans women around them. It’s watching this cross-generational support among trans women that’s so important for us but so rarely portrayed on screen.
Can You Make Stuffing Into an Edible?! Join Us TODAY for an A+ Holigay Cooking AMA!
“Not to brag, but I *did* win a cornbread contest once (deep in the southern U.S, no less!) with my dad’s recipe.” Join us in the comments section from 7am-10am PST, 2pm-5pm PST and anywhere in between to chat all things holigay baking, cooking and yes, eating.
Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Episodes of 2020
“Even once the surprise of it has been lost, I find myself returning to it time and again in my memory. A truly perfect moment of acting, of cinematography, of television. Easily the best of the year.”
Holigay Gift Guide: For the Reluctant Pandemic Chef
Kitchen gifts for beginners and people who get bored in kitchen. I mean, I love making dinner but also like damn we really gotta have dinner EVERY NIGHT?????!!!!
Snuggling With Our Sadness: A Cold Months Playlist by the Team
“I have seasonal affective disorder which is what I call my year round depression when it’s winter. So, sure, Tidal is always one of my go-to sad girl albums, but it just feels so right this time of year!”
Pop Culture Fix: “Vida” Showrunner Tanya Saracho Wants “Like a Ton” of Sex in Her New Show, Thank You Very Much
Also! Dickinson’s season two trailer, Ilene Chaiken is finally getting her murder show, we’ll never be over the way ODAAT was treated, and more.
Taylor Swift’s “evermore” Songs, Ranked by Gay Subtext
On Friday, December 11th, the Taylor Swift gay subtext industrial complex sprang into action when she dropped another surprise album during quarantine.
Merry Fistmas: A Virtual Vaginal Fisting Workshop with Malic White, TODAY at 1pm PST
We’re kicking off the 13 Days of A+ with a virtual vaginal fisting workshop! Merry Fistmas will take place on Crowdcast live at 1pm PST, but the recording will be available to A+ Members for replay afterward. Live captioning provided by White Coat Captioning.
NSFW Sunday Knows What’s Up With Pornhub
What’s happening with Pornhub? Plus, whether a huge variety of sex positions is worth it, lesbian age-gap relationship discourse, another devastating pandemic loss and more.
Holigay Gift Guide: Sexy Gifts Based on Quarantine Style
It’s time to normalize giving sex toys as gifts, and not just to partners. Everyone’s stuck at home anyway!
Grease Bats: Gossip
“Drama! Exciting secrets! Rumors! The GOOD stuff!!”
Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Sunlight Kitchens and Sweaty Kisses on “Station 19”
Plus, we’re getting Muslim teen superhero Ms. Marvel coming to TV and here’s an update on S.W.A.T.