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“Pose” Episode 201 & 202 Recap: Wintour Is Coming

“Blood does not family make. Those are relatives. Family are those with whom you share your good, bad, and ugly, and still love one another in the end. Those are the ones you select.”

Chinelo Anyadiegwu June 20, 2019 17 Comments
Issues

What Happened When I Began to Dig

“I’ve grown physically stronger through trail work than I ever thought possible, but there’s that different kind of strength that trail work has fostered in me that I believe to be a lot more important.”

Hadley Johns June 20, 2019 18 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something

Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.

Ryan Yates June 20, 2019 1 Comment
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Samira Wiley Bought a House, May the Lord Open Up Her Pool

Cara and Ashley Benson are instagram official, Samira Wiley needs a housecleaner, Stef Beatriz is the hottest thing at the pool, everyone is in Taylor Swift’s music video and other dispatches from celebrity lesbian instagram!

Riese June 19, 2019 13 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 201 Recap: Alice Comes Out for Real for Love

Alice comes out in a major way, Joey is changing their pronouns, and Jamal Thompon’s case is finally decided.

Natalie June 19, 2019 4 Comments
AF+

NSFW PHOTOESSAY: CRUEL TO BE KIND

These photos investigate the connection between pleasure and pain, and how kink can blur the line between where the body ends and the brain begins.

Candy Feit June 19, 2019 12 Comments
Visual Art

Talking With Candy Feit About ‘Cruel To Be Kind,’ Her Photo Project Highlighting Kink and Intimacy

We interviewed photographer Candy Feit about her inspiration, process, and intentions for Cruel To Be Kind, her most recent photography project.

Vanessa June 19, 2019 4 Comments
Issues

Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork

Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.

Lori Fox June 19, 2019 7 Comments
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Foolish Child #48: The Pride Is Right

“Eat my corporate rainbows!”

Dickens June 19, 2019 5 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix: “GLOW” Season 3 Confirms Its Gayness

New trailers for GLOW and The Handmaid’s Tale, lots of queer actors and writers and directors talking to straight media for Pride, an amazing new musical fantasy project from Dee Rees, renewals for Pose and Queer Eye, and truly enough takes about Taylor Swift already.

Heather Hogan June 19, 2019 17 Comments
TV Reviews

If You Haven’t Watched Suranne Jones in “A Touch of Cloth,” Your British Lesbian Education Is Incomplete

Here’s that Gentleman Jack/Caroline Bingley fan fic you’ve been looking for.

Heather Hogan June 18, 2019 32 Comments
Community

Insta Crush: Kenny Talks Hella Hot Shit on the Internet and You’re Gonna Love It

“What I post on the internet has to be what I can be proud of in person. That just happens to include my titties.”

Vanessa June 18, 2019 5 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Cara Delevingne Confirms her Relationship with Ashley Benson, Sex Benches for Everybody!!!

You will not believe her pet name for Ashley, just trust me on this.

Stef June 18, 2019 10 Comments
LGBT Pride Sponsored

QUEER IRL PHOTO GALLERY: PRIDE!

It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!

Heather Hogan June 18, 2019 25 Comments
Love + Sex

5 Relationship Lessons from Queer Films Past and Present

We have more movies about lesbian and bisexual women than ever before; they’re not necessarily always realistic, but can still bring us meaningful and constructive relationship truths, regardless of how far removed from our real lives their plots are, or how many falcons they contain.

Rachel June 18, 2019 11 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman Are Girlfriends, Invite Us to Consider Love Might Not Be a Lie???

“Every day I tell myself that I deserve to be happy, I deserve to be loved, I deserve to have a hot girlfriend.”

Carmen Phillips June 18, 2019 37 Comments
AF+ Issues

Monday Roundtable: Sex in the Great Outdoors

Having sex outside of buildings! Have you ever? We sure have!

the team June 17, 2019 17 Comments
Book Features

The Perfect Queer Poem: For When it Doesn’t Matter if You Want to Be Her or F*ck Her

H.D. sometimes had a fraught relationship with her own bisexuality, feeling pulled towards either lesbianism or heterosexuality rather than feeling her queerness as an integrated whole. Reconciling her bisexuality was a creative project for her.

Natalie June 17, 2019 2 Comments
LGBT Pride

31 Big Brands Selling Gay Apparel For Pride, Vaguely Ranked By Semi-Scientific Criteria

Tis the season to celebrate Pride by wearing rainbow gradient t-shirts that let the world know that love is love, love wins, pride unites, equality wins, love makes a family, it’s all love, we need more love, everybody is free to love and love unites!!!

Riese June 17, 2019 23 Comments
Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 111: Liberally

Cherie wants to give Shane her own hair salon, Jenny wants some bread for toast, Slim Daddy wants Bette and Candace to hook up and we want you to listen right now to the latest greatest episode of “To L and Back”!

Riese June 17, 2019 4 Comments
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