Grease Bats: Sober Kid at the Party
“I had no idea how much drinking masked my anxiety until penicillin.”
Stranger Things’ Third Season Delivers Unto Us a Snarky Lesbian
Watch “Stranger Things” Season Three for teen girls kicking monster ass to a Madonna soundtrack. And the lesbians. Always watch for the lesbians.
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.
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?
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!
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!
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.”
Exclusive: Carly Usdin’s “Heavy Vinyl” Is Getting a New Original Graphic Novel!
Your favorite music store gal pals/secret fight club are returning!
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.
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.
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.
Foolish Child #49: Rite of Passage
“Don’t ever fall for a straight woman.”
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“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!