The Comment Awards Are Dancing Around A Solstice Fire
It’s a magical time of year.
Getting In Bed With Kristin: Holiday AMA
How to deal with food and body comments from your family, why you don’t need to “convince” someone to be with you, the joy and peace of taking a break from social media, and more!
Things I Read That I Love #279: Surly Twentysomethings Resembling Peter Pan’s Lost Boys If the Lost Boys Were Girls
Topics include murder, a bonkers Christmas light fight, Brendan Fraser, squatty potties, sunburnt Australia, a ’90s San Francisco dyke “gang,” top surgery, why killers kill, alcoholism and so much more!
Straight People Watch: Holiday Edition
“To everyone’s credit, something they never tell you about as a child is the metaphorical cowboy snowman ready to do the devil’s bidding in a marriage, so who, really, is to blame here?”
Do the Damn Thing, Part One: Setting Goals and Realistic Expectations
January is a time for resolutions, but I’m going to give you something better than that: A pre-New Year three-week lesson on figuring out what the heck you want to do and actually doing it.
2018’s 30 Best TV Episodes Featuring LGBTQ Women
It’s our last TV list of 2018!
Gaby Dunn’s “Bad With Money” Will Make You Love Talking About Finance
Everything you wanted to know about personal finance, but unabashedly queer and radically inclusive — Dunn’s ready to help you get your shit together and stop feeling alone with your money troubles.
How to Handle Being Newly Single at the Holidays
If you’re on team single for the season and not sure how to be okay, read on, make a game plan, and know that the warm fuzzy happy holiday feelings are there for you if you want them.
“This Is Us” Breaks New Ground With Tess Pearson’s Coming Out Storyline
Ask me when was the last time I saw a beautiful young black girl come out on television and have both her parents tell her that they love her more than any girl in the entire world? NEVER. The answer is, quite literally, never. None of us have.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Going South
Finding queer southern lit, how the queer writers of the ’60s and ’70s shape Patrisse Cullors’s political work, the best of 2018 book lists and more.
Queer Girl City Guide: Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
Two of the cutest cities in the Mitten State want you to come say hello! Yes, “the mitten state.” How adorable is that?
Pop Culture Fix: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan Will Play Lesbian Lovers by the 1840s Seaside
Plus: Your first look at The Fosters spin-off and One Day at a Time season three, Queer as Folk is getting a reboot, Chilling of Adventures of Sabrina has been renewed for three more seasons, Ellen’s new stand-up special is “an hour-long flex” and more!
No Filter: Who All’s Gay Here?
Also, Gaby Dunn placed herself under the Christmas tree, Jasika Nicole has a haunting serenade for you, and WE FOUND PATTERS.
On Shopping in Public
“Here I am, gaslighting myself, and all I want to do is buy some clothes.”
Foolish Child #35: White FemiNEST
“You never know what’s going to provoke them to attack.”
Not In Our Name: A Statement on Trans Inclusion From Lesbian Editors and Publishers
We have joined with the editors and publishers of Diva, Curve, Lesbians on the Loose, Tagg Magazine, DapperQ and Lez Spread The Word to make a statement on our commitment to trans inclusion, support and advocacy.
“Life-Size 2” Is a Holigay Miracle: a Bisexual Made-for-TV Christmas Movie
Shine bright, shine far! Be a star! Where you live, where you are!
Find Your Fit: The NB Parent Ready for a Personal Style
“I had a kid two years ago and have really struggled working out my gender after that. My body changed a lot in ways I did not like and I’ve been trying to come to terms with my identity as a person, rather than just my kid’s mum.”
The Queer History of the Shaven Head
Shaven heads on women have challenged and informed ideas of beauty, power and tradition for centuries. Here’s the history of a very queer style.
Cuffing Season: Five Tips for Anxious Dominants
Worried you can’t be a good Dominant because you’re too anxious or awkward? Don’t be.