When I told my partner I thought I needed to call the ER for a telemedicine appointment, her face was devastated but not shocked. We’d been listing off symptoms to each other for weeks — dry throats, tight chests, nausea — trying to decide if what we were experiencing was anxiety or the onset of the virus.
In New York, every time you step out your door, human interaction is offered to you. The most magical thing about New York, about “High Maintenance,” about life has suddenly become a danger.
During a time like this, the impulse to want your ex is like the impulse some may have to want their mom. It’s carnal.
Also Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli are doing a little dance for you and King Princess is driving topless!
We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.
Do you know?! Did you hear? WE MADE IT TO OUR MATCH GOAL! That means we’ve unlocked $23,000 in match funds. We’ve also reached a total of $76,217, which brings us 76% to our goal! Thank you. It’s because of you.
Samantha Irby’s got the perfect playlist for the end of the world. Also: Roxane Gay on finding power within pandemic, writing gay YA can heal your former gay teen self, and helping your dog stay sane while being stuck inside.
“Writing, for me, is a way of reimagining that which I’ve experienced and creating something new. It’s a way of future-building. It’s a way of taking back agency. Each time I do this in my writing, I think it makes me a little more free.”
Self-isolation is forcing all of us to reflect. Maybe that’s not so bad.
The Public Universal Friend is just one example of how, even in the binarist West, non-binary people have always existed.
Kristen Stewart’s long history of playing moody teenagers, the casts of Hamilton and The Nanny reunited and it feels so good, here’s what your favorite TV characters might do during a pandemic, what the hell is Quibi, and more!
This week’s Extra! Extra! COVID-19 offers a case-by-case look at how the pandemic is playing out in different parts of the world. Please join the conversation with stories from around the world that interested you in the comments.
11 poems of varying lengths that you can read to your lesbian lover with that expensive wood wick candle flickering on the bedside table.
The basic mitzvah of Passover is to eat the Bread of Affliction, so let’s lean into the ancestral trauma and make our own matzo.
The wild ride of Season Four has left the station and these out of context screencaps
Happy Sunday! We’ve got so many queer clubs for you to visit in your jammies, movie news, history lessons, feminist art talks and more!
Dating in quarantine, orgies in isolation, everyone is hornier in the spring. (Usually.)
All the Spring TV coming up definitely or probably queer this March, April and May — lesbian and bisexual female characters and non-binary people investigating murders, surviving post-apocalyptic frozen tundras, skateboarding in New York City and so much more!
“Turn your mic on!”
Plus: “How to Get Away with Murder” returns for its final episodes ever, and we’re still #HornyForMermaids on “Sirens.”