Queer Girl City Guide: Los Angeles
It’s our epic guide to some of the best places to eat, learn, walk, shop, party and be queer in Los Angeles.
Precious and Adored: Reading Victorian Love Letters, Writing Queer History
When Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson met in 1890, they fell for each other hard. Their once-hidden letters are collected in a new book.
Jonathan Van Ness is Non-Binary: “Queer Eye” Scene-Stealer Comes Out, Is Ready to Educate
It’s exciting to me that he’s still using he/him pronouns. It’s exciting to me that he’s speaking publicly in a way that’s complicated and messy with a fluidity in language to match his fluidity in identity. It’s exciting to me because cis straight people love Queer Eye.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 110: “Luck, Next Time”
Mr. Piddles, I have something to tell you: Dana is gay and Cherie Jaffe wants a change and Kit will take the strawberry smoothie and Jenny is not having a nice time at this dinner party!
Our Solution to Climate Crisis Is Each Other
When we gather together, we don’t need to arrive with hope, because we have the power to create it. We will dictate the future.
“The L Word: Generation Q” Announces Two New Characters, Bette and Tina’s Grown-Up Baby
Over at Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Marja-Lewis Ryan unveiled an annotated page from a Gen Q script and some details about the new series.
On the Trail of the Quaker Aunts
The Quaker Aunts were the stuff of family legend, fearsome women in sensible shoes. Did one of them really smuggle Jewish children across the Alps before World War II?
Also.Also.Also: The Prom’s Lesbian Kiss Wins the Tony Awards and Other Gay Shenanigans
How the U.S. government continues to fail the USWNT, Stonewall 50, Google’s LGBTQ employees are furious at YouTube too, when abortion was illegal, and so much more!
The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Find Your Body
A gut feeling is intuition, sure, but it’s also something that announces HERE is the body, NOW is the body, RIGHT NOW.
Sunday Funday Is Obsessed With Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman’s Love
Plus a queer country playlist, intergenerational Pride, Late Night is maybe a feminist dream, and more!
NSFW Sunday Is So Sunburned
Sweaty summer sex, a few ways of looking at asexuality, a bot that will help with your sexting game and more.
Grease Bats: Cruising 4 Pride
“This Pride I’m finally getting over my CATHOLIC GUILT that has prevented me from engaging and enjoying hook-up culture!”
Femme Brûlée: Pink Lemonade Tart
Of course as a black queer woman making lemonade from the sour fruits in life is a highly curated skill of mine…
The Comment Awards Are Celebrating Samira Wiley’s Pride Month
Plus top hat-shaped holes in our hearts, what if the brownies were gay tho?, and polar bear flirting facts.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Make a Queer Summer Reading List!
Get in here and recommend all the good (gay) books!
Make Easy No-Bake Vegan Orange Almond Cheesecake for Shavuot, Yum
It’s cheesecake holiday time, let’s make some cheesecake.
8 Funny Books Featuring Queer Adult Women
8 queer women books to make you laugh!
“Tales of the City” Believes in the Power of Gay Love and LGBTQ Chosen Families
Tales of the City leans into some tropes, flips others on their head, makes plenty of jokes at its own expense, and — above all — believes in the power of LGBTQ people who come together to make their own family.
Also.Also.Also: Rainbow Wonder Woman Welcomes You to Pride Month
That Wonder Woman 84 image, eh? Plus: Talk of abortions and gay rights on the campaign trail, Straight Pride, Asia Kate Dillon on finding the way to “they,” celebrity LGBTQ trailblazers, all the Women’s World Cup news you need, and more!
Lez Liberty Lit Is All About Summer Reading
What a beach read is anyway, a new book about Los Angeles BDSM, the most cursed days for writers and more.