Host A Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, Meet Straddlers, Spread Cheer!
If you want to host a Cozy Holigay Meet-Up, here’s what to do.
Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
Monday Roundtable: The First Queer People Who Pinged Our Gaydars With Their Style
“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”
Sunday Funday is Sneaking Out With Michelle Obama to Rally Around the Gays
Michelle Obama’s a true ally, Sue Bird’s joining the NBA, Brandi Carlile learns that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, a rap for RBG and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Into Pubic Hair
This week, the internet got obsessed with pubic hair. Also: how to be more dominant in bed, sexts to send when you’re out of ideas, the hot new trend of later-in-life lesbianism and more.
Be The Change: Battling Activist Burnout
“I share all this because I feel like everyone I know is struggling to keep it together lately, to have-it-all or to be-everything-to-everyone or to fight-the-good-fight.”
Some Things: Backwards Meditation
Shhhhsh-sh-sh. I have one minute left.
Boobs on Your Tube: “All American” Just Keeps Getting Its Lesbian Story Right
All American tackles internalized homphobia, Charmed gives Mel a devastating choice, Eleanor Shellstrop is horny even when she’s getting dragged into hell, AU! Charlie returns to Supernatural, Beth and Valencia are leaving Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Make a Fall TV Progress Report Together!
Let’s have a check in about fall TV!
KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
The Comment Awards Are Singing Karaoke In a Chunky Sweater
“My mom watched The L Word before I did, so really this must be her fault.”
Blobs Get Dressed
Blobs explore what getting dressed feels like.
Hulu’s “The Bisexual” Is Here to Make Every Queer a Little Uncomfortable
What impresses me most about The Bisexual isn’t that it skewers The Discourse, but that it ignores it completely in favor of having an actual conversation.
“Riverdale” Episode 305 Recap: Less Game, More Gay Please
Life is a roleplaying game and the roleplaying game is life.
The Implication of a Bag
“I was unwilling to buy a binder. It seemed like a declaration, the kind I was nowhere near ready to make yet. But for that winter, I had the bag.”
The 15 Best Lesbian and Bisexual Movies of 2018
It’s been a banner year for queer women on the big screen!
“Black Lightning” Episode 205 Recap: The One with the Hot Sex (and a Death)
We can finally settle it: Anissa Pierce is a top! Here’s some hot lesbian sex, tinged with a bit of angst and sadness, coming your way!
Pop Culture Fix: Out 100 Honors Cynthia Nixon, Hayley Kiyoko, Mara Wilson and Other Girlfriends Of Yours
Topics include a hot Out 100, Celine Dion smashing the gender binary, Kehlani on being pan & preggers, “The Gilda Stories” becoming a movie, Stan Lee’s date with Patricia Highsmith, “8 Celebs Who’ve Opened Up About Their Lesbian Affairs” and more!
Netflix’s “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” Is the Gay Agenda
Noelle Stevenson’s remake of the short-lived but much beloved cartoon series is a brilliant homage to the original Gal Pals of Etheria and an absolute masterclass in feminist storytelling.
Trump Administration Continues to Decimate Asylum Process, Putting LGBTQ Migrants at Risk
A new executive order from Trump changes the rules for how someone has to have entered the US to apply for asylum, leaving many immigrants — including LGBT migrants seeking asylum — in dangerous limbo.