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The L Word: Generation Q TV Show Recaps

“The L Word: Generation Q” Episode 103 Recap: Lost Love

Who buys a bar and who gets punched in the face and who wears double-denim and who goes to church and who sat on a doll and who wants to reserve the Crystal Ballroom? There’s only one way to find out: reading this recap.

Riese December 22, 2019 60 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Tarotscopes: Capricorn Season Invites You to Prioritize What Matters and Leave the Rest Behind

A sign of cardinal earth that is usually associated with drive, organization, and goal-setting, Capricorn season can be both busy and prosperous, a time for focusing intentions, setting strong boundaries, and clarifying our ambitions for the new calendar year.

meg December 22, 2019 3 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Swooning at AD Franch’s Wedding

Happy Sunday, let’s look at cute queers dancing with their new wives, Chika on “The Read”, debut queer novels, memes, and more!

Ari December 22, 2019 8 Comments
Byron DuBois and Daizy Blaze
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Ducking Loves It

Why does autocorrect think you want to sext about ducks? Is Peloton porn about to take off? How do you tell a partner you don’t like their style?

Ryan Yates December 22, 2019 34 Comments
Geekery

“My Two Lesbian Ants” Will Carry You Through Christmas

Behold! Great tidings of comfort and joy!

Heather Hogan December 21, 2019 4 Comments
Recipes

Femme Brûlée : Impeached Upside Down Cake

Well It happened! It really happened. Let’s be clear, I’d given up hope it was actually going to happen, but it did! Trump was impeached, history was made, and tbh I feel pretty jaded about it.

Reneice Charles December 21, 2019 15 Comments
Camp

A-Camp Is Taking a Break in 2020

We’re pressing pause to rebuild.

Riese December 20, 2019 10 Comments
Politics + Activism

Democratic Debate #6: Klobuchar Wins, Unequivocally

The highs, the lows, and everything in between.

Natalie December 20, 2019 13 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Want to Know Your Superpower

“I made you a sex bench! Now, who’s going to stain it?”

Darcy December 20, 2019 32 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #304: I Want to Pretend That I’m Cooler Than Crying About The Velveteen Rabbit

It’s really hot in Phoenix, Tinder as small talk purgatory, Anna Delvey, Millennials not afraid of death, Instagram face, Hallmark Movies, racism in banking and more!

Riese December 20, 2019 5 Comments
Straddleverse

What’s On Your Nightstand?

Turns out you can learn a lot about a person based on what we hold near and dear to our sleeping spaces!

Reneice Charles December 20, 2019 116 Comments
Holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet

Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!

Rachel December 20, 2019 17 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

A New Year’s Tarot Spread: How Far You’ve Come, What Lies Ahead

Rather than seeing the cards in this simple spread as predictive, by leaving them open to interpretation and revisiting them throughout the year, we create space for these ideas to expand and build upon each other, allowing for growth, new perspectives, and the shifts that 2020 may bring.

meg December 20, 2019 7 Comments
Food and Drink Holigays

Three Mocktails for Your Holigay Reunion of Exes

So you’ve invited three of your exes and each of their respective partners/polycules over for holiday dinner. It’s a potluck, so food is taken care of, but what will you drink!? These delicious mocktails, of course.

danijanae December 19, 2019 19 Comments
Sex

How to Have Phone Sex: A Detailed Guide

Here’s a very thorough how to guide for approaching phone sex, from a chatty Capricorn slut whose greatest (PG-13) talent in life is never shutting up.

Vanessa December 19, 2019 32 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year

“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.

Ryan Yates December 19, 2019 4 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

What We Love and Hate About Dating Scorpios

“As a Scorpio that has dated other Scorpios, I can state definitively that we are excellent at sex and secrets and not always great at other parts of relationships.”

the team December 19, 2019 10 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Hallmark Accidentally Started a Lesbian Christmas Movie Avalanche

That Hallmark debacle made for some good tweets and content, Mia Kirshner says Jenny Schecter’s not dead (but there’s a podcast you need to listen to if you want to know more), return dates for Sabrina and Grace & Frankie, Disney+’s new Star Wars series will reportedly have a lesbian character, and more!

Heather Hogan December 18, 2019 37 Comments
Issues

Summer of 1990

I remember it all because for that one hour of that one day in that horribly long summer, I could see part of myself reflected in someone else and I felt less alone.

Vikki Reich December 18, 2019 22 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Christmas at the Coterie: “Good Trouble” Celebrates the Holigays with Stef and Lena

While the return of Stef and Lena Adams Foster to our TV screens was always going to be a cause for celebration around here, their presence — and the presence of six (!!) other LGBT characters — on Good Trouble’s two hour holiday special seemed particularly poignant in the wake of Hallmark’s bigotry.

Natalie December 18, 2019 2 Comments
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