Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover this month.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Under, and Lost
Carmen Maria Machado, writers’ roles in addressing climate change, why you don’t need to publish a book by 30, a liberated Cinderella, and more!
8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People
These awesome eight crime books, including mysteries, thrillers, and true crime, all feature queer women!
Charmed’s Witchy Women of Color Lesbian Love Triangle Deserves All Your Attention
With just two episodes left this season, I made you a Charmed Cheat Sheet, filled with all the important details of this topsy turvy magical world.
Foolish Child #44: Con Artist
“It looks like a museum for straight white women in here.”
Edie Windsor Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW
“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are.”
Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson and Brie Larson Broke The Lesbian Internet With Their Red Carpet Canoodling
Plus: Robyn Crawford is writing a book about her life with Whitney, Younger’s season six trailer, Peabody Awards for Killing Eve and Pose, Barbara Lopez is hyped on winning March Madness, and more!
No Filter: Evan Rachel Wood Is a Muppet IRL
In which we hit the pool with Janelle Monaé, enjoy Tessa Thompson cosplaying as Prince, and try to figure out what the hell’s going on between Emily Hampshire and Teddy Geiger.
“Daddy Issues” Is a Very Queer Very Good Movie
The first IMDb user review for Daddy Issues is titled “Heterophobic movie.” I cannot argue. I also cannot complain. May we blessed with an entire career of heterophobic movies from this properly queer filmmaker.
Queer to Queer: A Live Comedy Read from the Very Lesbian Diaries of Anne Lister
Calling all nerdy sluts in Los Angeles!
“Clink” Hopes to Step Into the Women’s Prison Drama Gap Left by “Wentworth” and “OITNB”
If life’s taught me anything, it’s that even the straightest-seeming woman can shuffle into a fictional prison meek as a lamb, and five seasons later is striding the corridors as Top Dog with a hot blonde on her arm.
Find Your Fit: The 30-Year-Old Leaning Into Quirky, Adult Androgyny
“My early 20s was all about 1950s vintage librarian looks (fit n’ flare dresses, patterned tights, cardigans) but in the last year (legitimately writing this to you on my 30th birthday), I’ve found myself leaning towards a much more androgynous style.”
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 412 Recap: As Is
Sara dives into Ava’s personal Purgatory to work out their issues and save her girl.
A Brief Investigation into Dating Someone With the Same Name as You, A Real Thing People Actually Do
A brief investigation into the particular phenomenon within same-sex relationships of same-name relationships. Are you okay with being Megan to her Meghan? Why??? I am listening.
“JT LeRoy”: Kristen Stewart Is Phenomenal But Everything This Movie Tries To Say About Gender Is Bad
JT LeRoy is not a great movie. In fact, it’s pretty bad. And yet in so many ways it’s the perfect JT LeRoy movie, the inevitable conclusion to this whole twisted saga.
“Saving Face” Director Alice Wu Is Bringing a Lesbian Teen Rom-Com to Netflix
A modern queer take on Cyrano de Bergerac, no less!
Supreme Court Will Rule on Title VII and LGBT Workers, or Whether It’s Legal to Fire You for Being Gay
Today the Supreme Court announced it will be deciding on an interpretation of federal law Title VII, and specifically whether the law should be understood as supporting workplace protections for LGBT employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or trans status.
“Supergirl” Episode 418 recap: Journey to the Past
Lena and Supergirl dig through Lex’s diaries and Lena’s childhood to find clues while Alex protects Supergirl from inside the DEO.
“To L and Back” Podcast Episode 3: “Let’s Do It”
This week on “To L and Back,” we agree that pants were way too low in 2004, Guinevere Turner gives us the scoop on Gabby Devaux’s employment at the Vaginal Rejuvenation Center and Marina leaves an unforgettable voice mail.
Jane the Virgin’s Final Season is Gayer and Wilder and More Romantic Than Ever
I’m old enough to remember when the only way you could see four queer women on one episode of TV was to watch The L Word.