Bad News: She’s Straight
“Straighter than an arrow! Straighter than a ruler! Straighter than uncooked spaghetti! Straighter than your parents! Straighter than a 401k!”
Boobs on Your Tube: Eve Returns to Her Soul Mate’s Side on “How to Get Away With Murder”
The good: Eve Rothlo is back, bitches, and she knows everything! The bad: Grey’s Anatomy kills a black queer fan favorite. Plus: Updates on Travelers, the Flash, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, grown-ish, and All American.
Things I Read That I Love #281: I Google Myself Every Day to Find Out If I’m Gay Or Not
Topics include what happened to Lindsay Lohan, free giveaways, precocious puberty, sober creativity, The Art of the Pan, The Cauldron, being lost at sea for 51 days, toxic shock syndrome, burnout and so much more!
The Comment Awards Are Crushing On Gillian Anderson
“Dana Scully and the XXX Files? I’m into that.”
Pansexual Iraqi-Syrian Musician Wafia Doesn’t Have to Explain Herself
Wafia and I chatted about being brown, queer, Muslim, and how those things influence her as an artist.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: If You Could Write A Letter To Who You Were 10 Years Ago, What Would You Say?
Don’t be shy! We’re all family here and we’re all in this together.
Queering D&D: How “Critical Role” Helped Me Find My Way
Critical Role helped me realized that D&D is about storytelling, and that there’s plenty of room for queer people in stories.
“Riverdale” Episode 309 Recap: Toni and Cheryl Prove Stealing From the Rich is an Incredible Aphrodisiac
Riverdale’s return to television after its winter break starts the way more episodes of Riverdale should start: with lesbian sex.
A Brief History of Lesbian Sex on TV: From Late Night Hair-Brushing to Primetime Scissoring
With Gillian Anderson’s Sex Education landing on Netflix, it feels like the perfect time to gather our TV Team and talk about sex on TV, specifically queer sex on TV, and its evolution over these many years.
Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lesbian Poet, Is Dead at 83
Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet and ardent devotee of the natural world throughout her life, has passed away from lymphoma at the age of 83.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Full of Its Past Selves
A humble argument for not counting how many books you read. Plus: Lin-Manuel Miranda saved a bookstore, Mari Kondo doesn’t actually want you to get rid of all your books, and more.
Queer Girl City Guide: Paris
Two queer American expats want to tell you everything that made them fall in love “Gay Paree!”
Here’s What the Gillian Anderson Character You’re Most Attracted to Says About You
Obviously we all lost our shit over Gillian Anderson’s turn in “Sex Education,” but she has so many timelessly hot roles to choose from. Here’s what your deepest Gillian Anderson fantasy says about who you are as a person.
Foolish Child #37: Twitter Fatigue
“A lot of it is the need to stay constantly informed at all times just to have something to say about it, ya know?”
“Good Trouble” Episode 102 Recap: The Coterie
Callie and Mariana get a surprise visit from Judicorn!
The Might-Have-Been
I was only pregnant for seven and a half weeks before my miscarriage. There was no body, no breath; there was no measurable part of a lifetime spent together. I’d only known there was life inside my body for three and half weeks, and yet the experience seems to still have a heartbeat.
Grindr-Backed LGBT Publication “INTO” Forced To Grind to a Halt
On Tuesday, Grindr-backed LGBT publication “Into” initiated, without warning, mass layoffs, effectively shuttering the site in … wait for it… A PIVOT TO VIDEO.
No Filter: Tessa Thompson’s New Gal Pal(?) Seems Cute
Also, Sarah Paulson channels Cheryl Blossom, Samira Wiley channels Takeru Kobayashi and Kehlani’s pregnancy smolder grows ever more powerful.
Pop Culture Fix: Stephanie Beatriz Shines, Syd and Elena Smooch in the New “One Day at a Time” Trailer
Plus: Shane is coming to grown-ish, Grace and Frankie’s season five trailer, Sarah Paulson and Cynthia Nixon teaming up with Ryan Murphy, Tessa Thompson shannot be confined by genre, and Lena Waithe wants a “gay ass black person” to host the Oscars.
#10YearChallenge: 2009 vs. 2019 LGBTQ TV
2009, the year The L Word ended and Glee began.