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Webcomics

Grease Bats: Lonely

“I went to a museum ALONE. Then I treated myself to a fancy coffee ALONE. Then I worked in the library ALONE. Then I bought this sweater ALONE.”

Archie December 22, 2018 22 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

EXCUSE ME, Did Kristen Stewart Get A New Girlfriend While We Weren’t Looking?

Is Kristen Stewart walking around Los Angeles drinking to-go juice with a new paramour?!?! We investigate!

Stef December 21, 2018 9 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Dancing Around A Solstice Fire

It’s a magical time of year.

Darcy December 21, 2018 22 Comments
Holigays

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!

Kristin December 21, 2018 1 Comment
Literature

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!

Riese December 21, 2018 10 Comments
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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?”

Erin December 21, 2018 65 Comments
Money + Work

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.

Heather Hogan December 21, 2018 7 Comments
TV Lists

2018’s 30 Best TV Episodes Featuring LGBTQ Women

It’s our last TV list of 2018!

Heather Hogan December 20, 2018 12 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

KaeLyn December 20, 2018 8 Comments
Breakups Christmas

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. 

Reneice Charles December 20, 2018 9 Comments
TV Reviews

“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.

Carmen Phillips December 20, 2018 14 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates December 20, 2018 3 Comments
Travel

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?

Queer Girl City Guides December 19, 2018 15 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

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!

Heather Hogan December 19, 2018 10 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.

Stef December 19, 2018 21 Comments
Issues

On Shopping in Public

“Here I am, gaslighting myself, and all I want to do is buy some clothes.”

Jen Mecum December 19, 2018 9 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #35: White FemiNEST

“You never know what’s going to provoke them to attack.”

Dickens December 19, 2018 9 Comments
Community

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.

Riese December 18, 2018 106 Comments
Christmas Holigays TV Reviews

“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!

Heather Hogan December 18, 2018 7 Comments
Queer Fashion

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.”

M December 18, 2018 15 Comments
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