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Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 108: L’Ennui

Y’all, Jenny is about to take her tights off and we are so here for it!

Riese May 27, 2019 13 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Lizzo’s Hallelujah Moments

We’re settling into Gemini season with gay rodeos, news about the Aladdin remake, trans commercials to make you weepy, Pride collabs, gay rodeos, and more!

Ari May 26, 2019 5 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Practicing French Kissing

A French kissing refresher, censored queer sex ed, ballon fetishes, masturbating without using your hands and more.

Ryan Yates May 26, 2019 3 Comments
Recipes

Femme Brûlée: Rainbow Sugar Cookies

How about a sugar cookie-filled Pride?

Reneice Charles May 25, 2019 14 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #60: The Act of Remembering

How fluid is our memory?

Yao Xiao May 25, 2019 4 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Gentleman Jack’s Misandry Remains Transcendent

Plus: JR and Petra try co-parenting on Jane the Virgin, Lena Waithe smooches Halley Berry on the mouth on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kat’s new love gets complicated on The Bold Type.

The TV Team May 24, 2019 19 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Spring Has Sprung And I Cut All My Jeans Into Jorts, What About You?

Spring is the best time for fashion in my opinion! A time for light jackets, layering, body hair, cut offs, sunburnt tattoos, backpacks full of beer, all the good stuff! What are you wearing these days?

Archie May 24, 2019 57 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Sending Will You Marry Me? Y/N Fruit Baskets

“IDK why the basket of fruit sent me over the edge, like, queer women have really been gay disasters since the dawn of time.”

Darcy May 24, 2019 19 Comments
Issues

How to Pay Attention

I take photos because they are true, whether they are true or not.

taylor May 24, 2019 23 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television

Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!

Riese May 24, 2019 2 Comments
TV Reviews

“Lucifer” Season Four Has a (Tragically) Beautiful Bisexual Storyline

As someone who has fallen for oblivious girls, or helped girls I was crushing on find the perfect thing to say to the boy of their dreams, I found it all surprisingly grounded in reality considering it was about a demon from hell and the literal first woman on Earth.

Valerie Anne May 23, 2019 6 Comments
The L Word

The L Word’s Lisa The Lesbian-Identified Man: A Trans Symposium

“What do we in want from and for Lisa in 2019? Justice for him, or peace of mind for us? The desire to reach back in time and pull him into our present is natural because we – especially trans people – want to see her character restored in dignity, thus preserving our own dignity.”

Riese May 23, 2019 45 Comments
Movie Features

GLAAD: Movies Are Getting Better For Lesbian and Gay Characters, Staying Terrible for Trans and LGBTQ Kids’ Characters

GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is here. Good news: Gay and lesbian rep is up. Bad news: Racial diversity is down, and trans rep remains at zero.

Heather Hogan May 23, 2019 2 Comments
TV Reviews

Charmed’s Finale Betrays Its Magically Queer First Season

Charmed decided to get “serious” about its magic, and along the way it forgot everything that made the season campy fun, addictive, feminist, silly and yes – the greatness of centering queer women of color in the middle of all.

Carmen Phillips May 23, 2019 10 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Detective Work

Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.

Ryan Yates May 23, 2019 6 Comments
Issues

Meet the Great Old Broads Saving the Wilderness and Having Fun Doing It

Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands.

Vanessa May 23, 2019 4 Comments
The L Word: Generation Q TV News & Trailers

“The L Word” Reboot Will Be Called “Generation Q,” Which Probably Stands For “Quasimodo”

“The L Word” reboot has a title and a cute lil poster and you can put THAT on your f*cking clipboard.

Riese May 22, 2019 43 Comments
LGBT History Sponsored Sports

Billie Jean King Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW

Billie Jean King will go down as one of the greatest tennis players — one of the greatest athletes, actually — of all time. 39 Grand Slam titles. 20 Wimbledon victories. And, of course, her Battle of the Sexes win over Bobby Riggs, which sold out the Astrodome and was viewed by more than 90 million people.

Heather Hogan May 22, 2019 8 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #46: Preaching to the Choir

“…is this divine intervention?”

Dickens May 22, 2019 3 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Evan Rachel Wood and Lena Waithe are Together at Last in the New “Westworld” Trailer

Plus: a Captain Marvel deleted scene, a new trailer for Tales of the City, Ruby Rose chattin’ about Batwoman, Tessa Thompson continuing to be a superstar, Sue Bird’s out for the 2019 WNBA season, and more.

Heather Hogan May 22, 2019 11 Comments
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