FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Scents Made You Gay?
Do you have certain memories tied to specific scents? I know I do! Come hang out! It smells great in here!
The Comment Awards Are Sex Benching
“No cops at Pride, just a group of queers eating through these thousands of cookies that I brought from home.”
Queer Sex Coven: Freeze Your Enemies
You’ll be surprised how quickly your freezer fills up with enemies.
YES NO MAYBE: Intergalactic Aliens and Magical Dildos
140 FUCKIN’ THRUSTS PER MINUTE
“The Bold Type” Gives Kat a New Girlfriend, an Old Girlfriend and a Voice of Her Own
The Bold Type’s third season is setting Kat Edison up for a love triangle — but the sweetest journey has been watching her own self-discovery as she uncovers her young, queer voice.
“The Perfection” Review: Nothing Will Prepare You For Allison Williams and Logan Browning’s Lesbian Horror Thriller
If you like lesbians and also body horror, this is the movie for you!
BREAKING: Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson Bought a Sex Bench, Excuse Me, Coming Through!!
“Making Ashley be the one who carries the bench backwards is such a dom move.”
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Womanizer Premium
Almost everyone I have spoken to who has tried the Womanizer Premium agrees on two things: the name is fucking awful and the device is fucking fantastic. I would agree.
No Filter: Cara Delevingne and Halsey Perform HYSTERICAL Trust Fall In Baggy Menswear!
Also: Ellen Page and a cute dog, Desiree Akhavan channels Bette Porter, Samira Wiley on a throne, Ari Fitz in mesh, Kate Moennig not at The Planet, King Princess in your daddy’s blazer and other pressing dispatches from queer celebrity instagram.
Janelle Monáe Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW
Janelle Monáe is, quite simply, peerless.
Remembering Stonewall Was a Riot: It’s Time To Meet Up For Autostraddle Pride 2019!
Happy Pride Month, loves. There is no better time than now to care for and about each other, and there is also no better time than now to organize.
The Great Angling Lesbian Society: A History of Chicago’s Lesbian Fishing Club
For one group of Chicago lesbians in the mid-1990s, building a queer community meant sitting around a barrel fire in the freezing, rainy April night, casting smelting nets and awaiting a barrage of tiny fish.
Pop Culture Fix: Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein is Queer IRL, FYI
Plus: New trailers for new seasons of Claws, Pose, and Jessica Jones; stabby Killing Eve news and interviews; Amber Benson’s playing gay again; Gentleman Jack has been renewed; that murdery lesbian cello Netflix movie, and more!
Chill or Be Chilled: 10 First Date Ideas for When You Want to Keep It Casual
Coffee and drinks are easy, but why stick to what’s easy? Get creative, but not so elaborate that your date thinks you’re madly in love with them and about to propose.
“She’s Gotta Have It” Season 2 Finally Gives Nola Darling The Bright Light She Deserves
“If Nola Darling is one of the most famous, even if uncomfortable, black queer women in pop culture – what does it mean for us that nearly everything about her is so closely tied to the man who created her?”
On the Hunt
My hunting experiences from youth to adulthood, in relation to my life as a black, queer woman of color.
Kristen Arnett’s ‘Mostly Dead Things’ Is a Funny, Dark Story of Messy Queer Love (also, Taxidermy)
Mostly Dead Things is the story of what happens to a young woman when her life is torn open and reset in a different pose, and how she deals with herself — and her queerness — as a part of that confusion soup.
For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands
Over the past four years, I fell in love, traveled many places, had my heart broken, unraveled. I also ate a lot of seafood platters. Here are some of them.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 57, May 2019
“can we call lesbian visibility day lesbian brigadoon”
Queer Your Ears May 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.