“Down Down Down” introduces Reagan, a bartender who neither melts under Ruby Rose’s intense smolder nor is shaken from her single-minded pursuit of asking out Kate Kane by the fact of three entire elevators plummeting to the ground in the building where she’s working a party.
In her life, Debbie Friedman did not want to be defined by her sexuality, but there’s something that feels queer about her music. The hidden history, the lyrics about liberation and joy, and, yes, a whole lot about women dancing with timbrels.
Alex is worried about Kelly with this shapeshifter on the loose and Kara does favor upon favor for Lena.
When I made a pledge to myself a few years back to only read sci-fi books by or about queer people, I wondered whether the cover art would be subtly queered in the process. The answer, in many cases, was no: it was queered to the absolute max.
I wanted to be whole, pure, the person I was supposed to be. I wanted to be good enough that my sexuality wouldn’t matter.
Gloria Steinem joins the lesbians for the season finale, in which there is death, but also life, and also people whispering the names of L Word characters while those characters are sexually engaged with one another.
Noname’s got new music, Brittany Howard sings to a girl named Georgia in her new Tiny Desk concert, Kellogg cereal said “gay rights!!!” and more! Happy Sunday!
Why scary moves make you horny, how to get candle wax (from play or ambiance) out of anything, strategies for (not) sending regrettable texts and more.
There’s an instinct when you move somewhere, I think, to carry with you an idea of home.
Plus updates on: 911, How to Get Away with Murder, American Horror Story, the season finale of Why Women Kill, and new gays to look out for on Nancy Drew!
Part-poem, part heartfelt plea, this letter proves I have always been a bad liar.
“Everything’s better topped with Brie.”
Some people just want a nice casual playlist for their Halloween party! So, I decided to split all of the song spooky suggestions into two playlists.
IS KIRA QUEER?
The failures of family, the joys of friendship, and a nonsensical but incredible musical number—just another day in Riverdale!
Why wear just one costume when October lasts an entire month? Halloween is for the queers, own it.
Is it not a gay badge of honor to be tired and sad and drained and to still exist?
Inspired by their vulnerability and the powerful throwback energy of high-school-age Sara and Tegan, we’ve cracked open our own high school diaries to show you our deepest, darkest, gayest secrets and send a little love and perspective back through time on who we’ve been.
The show putting Ruby and Sapphire together isn’t a fluke — these two are a great match for each other, both stubborn and passionate and potentially dangerous with their respective abilities to generate heat and cold. They’re literally cut from the same stone.
Tegan and Sara have mined through their pasts, found the gems, and put together a poignant ode to their past selves. We can live vicariously through their public vulnerability and imagine — without evidence — that if we did the same, we’d be charmed, rather than horrified, by what we found.