Can Queer Businesses Survive COVID-19? Here’s How Some Are Trying
With gay bars all but indefinitely closed, and other businesses slowly reopening, how are queer businesses surviving & supporting their community amidst a pandemic?
Europe’s CuTie.BIPoC Festival Is a Life Raft in the Sea of Whiteness
CuTie.BIPoC Fest gives me hope that it’s possible for spaces to exist that don’t sit under a roof of white supremacy, patriarchy or capitalism.
Pop Culture Fix: Javicia Leslie Brings the Bat Girl Magic
Melissa King’s best Top Chef moments, Hallmark is “in negotiations” to do gay Christmas movies, Rachel Maddow’s interview with Mary Trump (also gay, apparently) set viewing records for TRMS and MSNBC as a whole, and more!
What We Wish We’d Known Before Having Gay Sex for the First Time
“Porn and MTV made me feel like every time I had lesbian sex there would be fireworks, crying and cuddling. Not the case.”
Sunday Funday Is Getting Intimate (Consensually) With Lena Waithe!
Lena Waithe is using intimacy trainers, moms are still throwing gender reveal parties (but we don’t hate it), John Lewis and the fight for gay rights, and the Belchers have a song in their heart for you! Happy Sunday!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is in an Intimacy Bubble
Intimacy bubbles are the new polycules, the conversations to have before considering an unmasked hangout, why you were right to break up with that person who was wrong for you and more.
The Dyke Kitchen: So Nice To Meat You!
On the evening when I was inviting my latest love interest to meet my last girlfriend, who is also one of my very best friends, it made perfect sense that I would grill for the fiery women involved in this queer occasion.
Baopu #75: Hitting a Wall
A surreal exploration of tackling a mental road block. The other side might be a very different perspective.
“The Bold Type” Makes a Last-Minute Finale Change, But Kat’s Storyline Is Still a Huge Mess
“Instead of feeling like an affirmation for my disdain for Kat and Eva’s relationship, it feels like The Bold Type is re-emphasizing one of the things that makes the Kat/Eva storyline problematic: diminishing the show’s lead black character to bolster the bonafides of its white ones.”
Extra! Extra!: How Do We Imagine the Future in a Pandemic Where We’ve Yet to Reckon with the Past Two Months?
This week’s Extra! Extra! covers new expose’s on police brutality and violence against Black and brown bodies, an update on the pandemic that isn’t actually happening right now and tragically recalls the deaths of Angela Martinez Gómez and Jose I. Escobar Menendez.
Things I Read That I Love #311: As If I Were a Train and the Last Page Was Anna Karenina
Topics include Dollar Stores, Black media, Peak comfort TV, a 16-year-old model in the 90s, Hamilton, racial disparities in coronavirus cases, Ziwe Fumudoh, the primaries and so much more!
The Four Robots You Meet in Quarantine
One thing that’s been great about quarantine is that everyone has gotten to spend more time with the robots in their life!
The Comment Awards Are Nipple Confident
“I wish I were a Magnificent Melissa, but if we’re being honest, I’m at BEST a Smiling Rob.”
Scenes from a Gender: Illustrated Moments of Trans Womanhood
Four scenes from my life as a trans femme.
Into the A+ Advice Box #15: So Your Boss Sent a Hurtful Email About You
Broken up with during quarantine, exploring your sexuality in quarantine, feeling concerned about being “okay” in quarantine, sage advice for parents of a non-binary kid and more!
S L I C K: Sizzling Erotica Round-Up
Life moves fast. Time is a warp. It’s possible that you missed some of these tension-filled erotic S L I C K moments. Join A+ so you can read the slow, tight tension — right before the frenzy — that I love to revisit.
The Santana Lopez Moments That Changed Our Lives — And The World
“She raises both hands to the orchestra and she smiles into the audience. She nearly breaks her face in two because she knows, she really knows, that she did it. She’s the star.”
Did Dakota Johnson Come Out as Bisexual, or Just Hang Out With Cara Delevingne?
Or are they the same thing??????
Also.Also.Also: How the Thumb Ring Became Gay Culture
Elena Delle Donne’s ongoing struggle with the WNBA, a collection of some of the most moving and queer tributes to Naya Rivera, Mrs. Frizzle’s queer legacy, and more.
My Top 10 Favorite Lesbian Films: Valerie Anne, Who Loves a Cheesy Movie and Won’t Apologize For It
I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.