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.
If You Haven’t Watched “Pose” Yet, What Are You Waiting For?
Pose is hella Black, it’s hella Brown and it’s hella queer, and the second season kicks off next week!
No Filter: A Very Happy Pride From Samira Wiley, Ruby Rose, Asia Kate Dillon, Stef Beatriz and Be Steadwell
This week, Gaby Dunn has a birthday, Samira Wiley eats Gabrielle Korn’s head, Ellen Page and Emma Portner hit the red carpet, Evan Rachel Wood enjoys her throne deep within the earth’s core and so much more!
Pop Culture Fix: Nahnatchka Khan’s “Always Be My Maybe” Has a Great Lesbian Character, Of Course
Plus more from Ruby Rose on Batwoman, the first woman director to win a Queer Palm at Cannes, fact-checking Booksmart’s lesbian sex, TLW: Gen Q is coming to Pride, and more!
Mindy Kaling’s “Late Night” Is a Rom-Com for Women Who Are in Love With Their Careers
Queer director Nisha Ganatra brings Kaling’s funny, biting, meta-critiquing script to life like a bright, slick, dazzling rom-com for women who fantasize more about their careers than they do about Mr. Darcy.
Seimone Augustus Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW
“In high school, I kissed a girl for the first time. It felt too comfortable and too right to think I was anyone but whom I was in that moment. I’ve followed that honesty my whole life.”
Going Back Outside After the Streetlights Come On
When you’re little, the backyard of your grandma’s house is an entire universe. Growing up is finding the kid in you and being brave enough to take them outside again – without warning them about coming home before the streetlights come on.