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.
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!
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.
“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?”
My hunting experiences from youth to adulthood, in relation to my life as a black, queer woman of color.
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.
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.
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I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.
The season two finale came the closest the show ever has to giving us what we want. But what do we want?
The line breaks are hard to take. They make the poem feel like a fight: not knowing when to stop, talking over one another, losing your thread, gasping for air through tears.
Y’all, Jenny is about to take her tights off and we are so here for it!
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!
A French kissing refresher, censored queer sex ed, ballon fetishes, masturbating without using your hands and more.
How about a sugar cookie-filled Pride?
How fluid is our memory?
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.
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?
“IDK why the basket of fruit sent me over the edge, like, queer women have really been gay disasters since the dawn of time.”
I take photos because they are true, whether they are true or not.