Happy Hour at Home: Have Some Very Gay Zoom Backgrounds
Drink poolside at Bette and Tina’s! Dance on the sticky dive bar floor at Vida’s! Have a champagne toast in Villanelle’s apartment! We’re all doing our best!
BUFU’s Cloud 9 Builds New Networks of Care for QTPOC During the Pandemic and Beyond
“We want to create the interconnectedness necessary to build futures together.”
Lost and Found in the Fish Sauce: How I Cooked My Way Back Home
Through my mother’s recipes, I’m reminded of the resilience that flows in our blood. Instead of disconnecting from my body to survive, I nurtured it. Like me, cooking is hella queer and fluid. Every time I reimagine a dish, it can taste different depending on my mood.“How spicy do I want this dish to be today? “How sweet do I want this dessert?” It’s never fixed or prescribed. That’s what makes these evolving recipes — and the queer experience — so delicious.
Eight Awesome Queer Historical Fiction Books Like Tipping the Velvet
Queer historical fiction books full of the steaminess, lush historical detail, and drama of Sarah Waters’s iconic lesbian coming of age story Tipping the Velvet.
Lez Liberty Lit: Paying Attention Differently
A time capsule of queer Los Angeles, how paying attention matters, read “A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability,” black queer writers winning Pulitzer Prizes and more.
Pop Culture Fix: Stephanie Beatriz Would Like to Be Your New Batwoman
Hey and so would Ali Liebert! Motherland: Fort Salem and Gentefied have been renewed, more details on ODAAT’s animated special, Vanity Fair’s Janelle Monáe profile is a must-read, and more!
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 513 Recap: If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me
The Legends fight a horde of zombies in their race against time to get to the Loom and stop the Fates.
Queered & Careered: Manifestation Journaling (Or Using Woo-Woo Talk to Claim the Life You Want)
During this challenging time, use your journal to throw your dreams into space. Imagine what could be and use that energy to fuel your long days.
My Top 10 Television Shows: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
One thing that does unite every show on this list is that each of them came into my life at the exact right time and also all influence my own writing in some way.
Former TERFs and SWERFs are Fleeing The “Cult” Movements Known For Being Terrible and Wrong
“Looking back on his time in the “gender critical” feminist movement,” writes PinkNews’ Vic Parsons, “[Dyess] is unequivocal: it’s a cult.”
Foolish Child #72: State Your Emergency
“Ma’am, I can assure you that refusing to wear a mask to protect your community… is not the ‘new’ N-word.”
No Filter: Leisha Hailey In Her Dirt Is The Portrait Of a Queer Women in Quarantine.
Also: Ama Elsesser is cooking great dinners for her lover and Rhea Butcher is getting into tie dye and it’s frankly inspiring.
What Being a Child of the AIDS Epidemic Taught Me About Coronavirus
All we have is each other. And we are the only ones we know, if we believe in the myth of ourselves enough to create truth, who will save us.
Queer Tarotscopes: Gemini Season Asks Us to Find a New Kind of Freedom
When we fully embrace the energy and intention of The Lovers and Gemini, we can honor our wants and needs without feeling selfish, can make space for our desires without feeling greedy, can recognize just how important our dreams really are and go after them without hesitating. What have you learned to love about yourself?
Ruby Rose Is Done With Being Batwoman Now
Ruby Rose has departed as the title role of The CW’s Batwoman following the series’ first season. Warner Bros. TV has announced that the role will be recast.
Also.Also.Also: ‘Jane Roe’ From ‘Roe v. Wade’ Got Paid to Change Her Mind on Abortion
Norma McCorvey, better known as ‘Jane Roe,’ says she was paid to be an anti-abortion activist (she also had a relationship with a woman for 35 years, a fact that I never knew!). Plus: the history of black twitter, André Leon Talley, and 14 ways to find joy in spite of everything.
Cutting Out the Middle
I would spend many hours trying to diagnose the emptiness Amanda left in her wake. I had lost something, but didn’t know what. Surely there’s a queer space on the page for stories that lack a middle?
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Final Season Gives The Gays Everything They Want
“Even after all the growth and apologies, all the blushing and teasing, all the conversations about what they both want, I couldn’t let myself believe it. I was so afraid to be let down. But holy shit y’all, THEY DID IT.”
Organizing A Sex Work COVID-19 Relief Fund Restored My Faith In Community
People are coming together around this thing we’re doing – and so many other mutual aid projects – and it’s more powerful and vibrant than almost anything I’d experienced in a decade of activism.
Trusting Abundance: A Conversation With Organizer, Sammie Ablaza Wills
“I’m not interested in creating comfortable spaces. I’m interested in safer spaces where people can be challenged.” Sammie Ablaza Wills gathers wisdom from their elders and fellow trans, queer community to lead the grassroots org, API Equality Northern California.