Results for: representation
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GLAAD Survey Finds Straight People Fine with “Equal Rights” in 2018, Not So Much Actual LGBT People
The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum abruptly stopped and swung in the opposite direction.”
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Drawn to Comics: Legend of Korra Turf Wars Pt. 2 Stays as Gay as Ever
“I was about to write, “this book almost seems like fan service,” but, nope, it doesn’t just seem that way, it is fan service.”
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Lez Liberty Lit: Backwards Books
A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Checking in on Hen Wilson’s Glasses and Sara Lance’s Ponytail
Quick updates on Lucifer, 9-1-1, and Legends of Tomorrow!
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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading on an Empty Stomach
How queer books are still marketed to straight readers, horror novels and OCD, OED feelings, feminist fonts, Virginia Woolf’s photo albums and more.
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Starz’s “Vida” Promises Next-Level Queer Latinx TV and We Can’t Wait
TCA wraps up this week but we’ve already picked the show we’re most excited about: Starz’s”Vida” has a Queer Latina showrunner, a writers room that’s 100% Latinx and 50% queer, an all-POC mostly-female directing team, and so many queer and gender non-conforming characters!
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Sunday Funday is Celebrating the Season with Fiona and the EqualiTeam!
The EqualiTeam is here to save the day, Fiona’s first Christmas, Bangladeshi hijra candidate Nadira Begum in it to win it, Laura Dern and LGBTQ star wars representation, queer teens saving 2017, Arizona continues to be shockingly cool, long queer lady nails a-ok, and more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Ackley Bridge” Tackles Internalized Homophobia and Islamaphobia with its Lesbian Muslim Character
Plus: Mariah and Tessa have a short-lived reunion on Y&R, The Originals gives us a queer wedding, what’s the damn deal with UnREAL, why has Queen Sugar abandoned Nova’s bisexuality, and more!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: You Should Catch Up on “Santa Clarita Diet” and “Dear White People” This Weekend
Plus: Gina Rodriguez on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, what’s gay on Critical Roll, and you should definitely watch Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Spring/Summer 2018 TV Preview: All the Lesbian and Bisexual and Trans Women TV Characters Your Heart Requires
It’s gonna be cool for the summer with all these TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters.
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Drawn to Comics: “Bingo Love” Is a Black Queer Romance That Lasts a Lifetime and Will Make Yours Better
Everyone who’s been clamoring for a romance comic about queer Black women written by a Black woman and with art by women has gotten exactly what they want with “Bingo Love.”
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VIDEO! Getting In Bed with Jen Richards: Holiday AMA
Jen! Richards! Is! The! Best!! We talked about everything from HerStory to Keanu Reeves to being trans and home for the holidays to witchcraft and related book recommendations, and it *all* ruled.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Everyone Is Gay On Quiet Ann’s Episode of “Claws”
Plus hey did you know there’s queerness on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters”?
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Monday Roundtable: These Are the LGBTQ Movies That Destroyed Us Emotionally
“I don’t know why I watched it, I guess maybe I wanted to get destroyed again and Netflix didn’t exist yet. I feel like my entire generation will never recover from this film.”
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The Comment Awards Are Lounge-Of-Center
“Petition to call a group of feminists ‘A Simmering Rage?'”
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Monday Roundtable: Reflections on Being 19 From 2019
“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #19
“I’m going to make a shirt that says Rachel Is Right or maybe Listen to Rachel.”
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TV Team Roundtable: How We Handle TV That Breaks Our Hearts (Or Makes Us Want to Break the TV)
Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.
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“Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Occupy Everything Together”: Remembering Brazilian Bisexual Activist and Politician Marielle Franco
Rio de Janeiro Councillor Marielle Franco, who was assassinated on 14 March 2018 after speaking at an event for the empowerment of Black girls, was a firebrand of a politician, feminist, and human rights activist whose work was deeply informed by her experiences as an Afro-Brazilian Catholic lesbian woman born and raised in the favelas.
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2017’s 18 Best Episodes of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV
These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.