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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: “Queen Sugar” Finally Dealt with Its Queer Erasure Problem!

Plus updates on Burden of Truth, grown-ish, Ackley Bridge, and Tessa Thompson’s version of Eartha Kitt on Drunk History.

The TV Team July 5, 2019 5 Comments
Straddleverse

We Need Help: Now Hiring Team Writers!

We’re looking to bring some more writers onto our team and maybe perhaps you are one of them?

The Editors July 5, 2019 26 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #292: There Are Chocolate Chips In The Freezer

Topics include Babe dot net, The Pioneer Woman, Judge Judy, queer food, GoFundMe healthcare, clapping back, Cooking: Why?, untying the knot at her throat and so much more!

Riese July 5, 2019 13 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Go To The Beach, Beach

What would you do at the queer and trans beach on your perfect beach day? Come pretend with me!

KaeLyn July 5, 2019 39 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Going to the Motherf*cking World Cup Final

“I wasn’t a sports gay until this article and now I love sports.”

Darcy July 5, 2019 7 Comments
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Exclusive: Carly Usdin’s “Heavy Vinyl” Is Getting a New Original Graphic Novel!

Your favorite music store gal pals/secret fight club are returning!

Heather Hogan July 5, 2019 4 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger

Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.

Ryan Yates July 4, 2019 7 Comments
Health

The 25 Gayest 2019 Women’s World Cup Tweets, Ranked by Thirst

This year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup has been the gayest sporting event ever, as you see reflected here in this small selection of gay tweets compiled by Heather and ranked by thirst by Rachel.

Heather Hogan July 4, 2019 54 Comments
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12 Quotes About Freedom from Queer and Trans People of Color to Meditate on This Independence Day

Queer and trans people of color know more about the ugliness of America than most. But we’re still here. We’re still fighting for our liberation. Let us lift up those voices today.

Carmen Phillips July 4, 2019 13 Comments
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Foolish Child #49: Rite of Passage

“Don’t ever fall for a straight woman.”

Dickens July 3, 2019 5 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episodes 202 & 203 Recap: Double the Trouble, Double the Recap

I proudly present, the compliment to last season’s “Men Are Trash (But Sometimes Not)” leaderboard: “These Women Aren’t Defined by Their Relationships (But I am Judging Them for It)” leaderboard.

Natalie July 3, 2019 3 Comments
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No Filter: Ellen Page Adopted a New Dog for Pride

In the meantime, Samira Wiley wore rainbow eyeshadow, Stephanie Beatriz wore bisexual eyeshadow, and Evan Rachel Wood met a sexually fluid tiger.

Stef July 3, 2019 13 Comments
Friendship

Friendships Are Work, and It’s Worth It: Loving Your Friends Like You Love Your Dates

I want to talk about loving and investing in friendship with the same fervor many of us have been taught to treat romantic relationships only.

Vanessa July 3, 2019 21 Comments
LGBT Pride

PHOTOESSAY: NYC’s Dyke March, Queer Liberation March, All-Ages Party, and More (Not Corporate) World Pride

World Pride took over New York last week in what was possibly the largest LGBTQIA+ event in history.

Molly July 3, 2019 13 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson Is a Damn Delight as Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman on “Drunk History”

Kate McKinnon has her Marianne Williamson impression ready to go, Lucy Lawless can’t believe she’s still having to explain that Xena was gay, Rutina Wesley on this season of Queen Sugar, Lizzo’s not giving up on Ursula, the Black Lady Sketch Show, and more!

Heather Hogan July 3, 2019 15 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

This New Book on Nurturance Culture Is Needed, but Is It Too Normative?

While “Turn This World Inside Out” makes plain the problems with shaming folks into a more liberated world free of gendered violence, it does so in limited ways that made me as a reader hungry for more.

Bani Amor July 3, 2019 9 Comments
AF+

Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #25

Can we please get a “sustainability dyke” pin? I would love that so much.

The Editors July 2, 2019 48 Comments
TV News & Trailers

“Wynonna Earp” Is Officially Coming Back for Season 4, Canadian Gays Win Again

Our angelic bisexual badass and soft butch sheriff are officially returning to us!

Valerie Anne July 2, 2019 14 Comments
Dating Friendship

Yes, Virginia, You Can Date Your Best Friend You’re Secretly in Love With (At Least, In Theory)

Someone has gotta make the first move, or you’re gonna spend the rest of your life hyper-aware of the fact that two centimeters of your outer thighs are touching as you sit next to each other rigidly on the sofa watching Masterchef Junior.

Rachel July 2, 2019 11 Comments
Health

Sue Bird’s Essay About Megan Rapinoe Will Punch Your Heart in the Face in the Very Best Way

LOVE IS NOT A LIE, CASE CLOSED.

Heather Hogan July 2, 2019 27 Comments
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