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Visual Art

Cherry Chapstick on Your Lens and Other Photography Tricks & Treats

Are you trying to take photos with more of a ~vibe~? Do you want to try some new things that will give your photos texture and emotions? Have you been thinking, wow, adding cherry chapstick to my photography will really make it look cooler but I’m not sure where to start? Well I am so glad you asked!

Molly February 18, 2020 10 Comments
LGBT History

Let Us Consider St. Gertrude, the Cat Lady Alternative to St. Patrick

St. Patrick’s Day, every non-Irish person’s favourite excuse to get piss drunk, talk in an annoying accent all day and cover everything in Green is coming up once again. But why celebrate an embarrassingly tacky version of someone else’s religious holiday when you can hold a party for the patron saint of cat ladies, Gertrude of Nivelles, instead.

Siobhan February 18, 2020 5 Comments
Coming Out

You Need Help: How Do I Let Go of Feeling Guilty After Coming Out Late in Life?

I’m happy and grateful to be out, but I can’t get past feeling like I have created pain and difficulty for so many people.

himani February 18, 2020 9 Comments
First Person Issues

Bonus Time: Living To Be Queer Elders

In QTPOC community, the future can feel precarious. If queerness is so often associated with action and survival, how do we learn to slow down and rest so we can live long enough to grow into the queer elders we always dreamed of having?

Jordan Alam & sára abdullah February 18, 2020 5 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Corinne Manning’s “We Had No Rules” Grapples With Queer Assimilation

In their debut story collection We Had No Rules, Corinne Manning makes a rare, generous offer to the queer community: to hold us accountable.

Max Delsohn February 18, 2020 4 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Young M.A Is Making a Strap-On Starter Kit. This Is Not a Drill (Or Is It)

Meet the trans woman making professional soccer history, talking about the behind-the-scenes fashion that makes Killing Eve so hot, plus how to combat those “Sunday scaries” and more!

Carmen Phillips February 17, 2020 10 Comments
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2019 By the Numbers: An A+ Member Exclusive

Who loves infographics??? WE DO!!

Riese February 17, 2020 27 Comments
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“Supergirl” Episode 512 Recap: Compulsory Heterosexuality

Alex and Kara work to stop the Toyman once and for all while Lena continues working with her brother to figure out Non Nocere.

Valerie Anne February 17, 2020 9 Comments
Movie Reviews

“Kajillionaire” Review: Evan Rachel Wood Deals in Queer Romance, Trauma, and Petty Theft

Miranda July’s new feature, starring a magnificently weird Evan Rachel Wood, is a careful, long-game-playing meditation on how we can learn to parent ourselves when our own families refuse to do the job.

Shayna Maci February 17, 2020 4 Comments
Book Features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: February’s Revolutionary Hope

I’m pairing Audre Lorde’s 1984 conversation with James Baldwin and arguably her best-known speech, “The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” in hopes of exploring how our power and freedom lie in embracing our differences as the source of our strength. 

Jehan February 17, 2020 4 Comments
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 308: “Latecomer” With Rhys Ernst

Feast your eyes upon the chaotic screencaps of “Latecomer,” which involves Kit recording that song and everybody taking a private jet to a WNBA game. You know the one.

Riese February 17, 2020 4 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Studying Queer TV History With Rachel Maddow

Queers and country music, queers on TV, queers in tango! Happy Sunday, we’re everywhere!

Ari February 16, 2020 4 Comments
La Muxer Diosa and Zoie Blackheart, through the bars on a headboard
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Living Apart Together

Why sex parties are great, why blocking your ex is better, why actually we should all just delete social media and never look back and also never link it to a dating app, and more.

Ryan Yates February 16, 2020 3 Comments
Food and Drink

The Dyke Kitchen: Diaspora Co. Queers Your Spice Cabinet

Sana Javeri Kadri brings her whole queer life to Diaspora Co., her company that’s decolonizing the spice trade, supporting Indian small farmers, and delivering banging spices to your kitchen.

Kamala Puligandla February 15, 2020 6 Comments
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The Lakeview Crew #1: Love Letters

Welcome to “The Lakeview Crew,” our newest Saturday comic! In our first post, every year Max writes their friends Valentines Day Letters.

Emma Rust February 15, 2020 6 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: The Bold Type’s Throwing a Sex Party! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Plus updates on All American, some incredibly important episodes of Grown-ish and Deputy, and the TV Team made you a special valentine that’s full of our favorite tv ladies kissing.

The TV Team February 14, 2020 4 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 215 Recap: Palentine’s Day

Callie and Mariana Adams Foster have always been the heart of this show so it’s fitting that they’d be reunited for Valentine’s Day.

Natalie February 14, 2020
Relationships

You Need Help: How Do I Navigate Being Monogam-ish With My Bi Girlfriend?

“Right off the top, it’s crucial for me to say this: being monogamous and being bisexual are not mutually exclusive. This is a really problematic stereotype that has to go, like yesterday.”

Abbie Jones February 14, 2020 20 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #307: “I Fall In Love (Cue Your Laughter)”

Topics include Victoria’s Secret, The Americans, gatekeeping in publishing, CollegeHumor, slavery re-enactments, Angola, vaping and so much more!

Riese February 14, 2020 3 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are A Bunch Of Happy Little Trees

“Who else saw Janelle Monáe in that flower outfit and wanted to watch things BURN?”

Darcy February 14, 2020 13 Comments
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