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Wanda Sykes using a microphone in I'm an Entertainer
Comedy

As a Queer Black Mom, I Strongly Relate to the Humor in “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer”

I’m An Entertainer shows Wanda Sykes doing what she does best: making you crack up one minute and making you think the next.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 15, 2023 1 Comment
Comedy

Everyone Is “Upset” About the Way I Cut Brownies — I Must Defend My Honor

I’ve been informed this is the absolute most chaotic way to slice brownies. Do you agree?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 6, 2023 49 Comments
a yellow lab looking through a rainy window
Comedy

What I Think I’m Going To Do When My Girlfriend Is Gone for a Month vs. What I Actually Do

CAN ANYONE RELATE?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 4, 2023 29 Comments
A promo image that reads Peppermint So-SIGH-ety Effects above a New York skyline next to Peppermint on stage in black talking to an audience.
Comedy

Peppermint on Her New Comedy Special, Trans Dating, and the Best of New York Drag

“Audiences need more trans comics. There certainly are a handful of well-known trans comics, but we need more.”

Drew Burnett Gregory April 21, 2023 3 Comments
Elsa Martinelli and Annette Vadim in the 1960 film Blood and Roses, Tara from True Blood, and Catherine Deneuve from The Hunger against a background of a purple skull, a vampire woman surrounded by purple bats, and purple skeleton hands in the shape of a heart surrounded by purple flowers.
Comedy

An Open Letter From the Vampiric Council on Vampire Erasure

Everybody knows vampires are the gayest undead creatures.

Fright Dyke April 1, 2023 11 Comments
a pin that says ALL VAMPIRES ARE GAY, a single black doc marten boot, an array of spiked goth jewelry including a cuff, a spiked choker necklace, black cherries, and a spiky leather jacket. a femme in a black sheer buttondown shirt, a masc with bleached hair in a black open leathery box-fit short sleeve buttondown and black shorts with white athletic socks and black slides, a femme with short choppy black hair in a black tight strapless bodysuit with a leather look, and a masc in a black cropped tee with black pants. everyone has vampire fangs with blood dripping from them.
Comedy

Caught Dead: Style Tips for Nonbinary Vampires

I’m not some kind of cartoon Dracula wearing a cravat and a cape every day. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Or maybe that was my last victim.

Nico April 1, 2023 2 Comments
a hand pulls a green ribbon and is surrounded by purple, red, and dark magenta flowers. the look has an overall watercolor vibe.
Comedy

I’m Just a Girl (With a Green Ribbon)

She places her fingers around my neck but does not squeeze.

The Girl With The Green Ribbon April 1, 2023 3 Comments
a woman with curly hair embraces a woman with long wavy hair who has cartoon fangs and blood on her chin. there's a graveyard background with tombstones that say RIP. there is also a faint blood spatter behind them and two bouquets of flowers on either side of them.
Comedy

You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Is Literally a Vampire

The reason your girlfriend is behaving like this is because she’s literally a vampire. I would know, because I’m also a vampire.

Fright Dyke April 1, 2023 11 Comments
a cartoon zombie girls with glasses and short hair wearing ripped jeans and a black cropped tank reads a book on BRAINS
Comedy

This Zombie Bite Changed My Life

I’m grateful to the zombie community for welcoming me with literal outstretched arms.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2023 4 Comments
Carrie Bradshaw Googles "can ghosts scissor" and is surrounded by scissors and a purple ghost and a blue ghost
Comedy

Can Ghosts Scissor?

It all started with a simple premise, a curiosity really.

Carmen Phillips April 1, 2023 10 Comments
a woman with curl hair and bright red lipstick and a plaid dress over a white tee sings karaoke with a woman with a shaved head in a white tee who is holding the mic
Comedy Music

Sorry Straights, These Karaoke Songs Belong to the Lesbians

Look, who else is holding on to relationships for too long in the way that we queers are? Who else “got somebody here but I want you” the way we do?

Analyssa March 20, 2023 24 Comments
Lip Smacker chapsticks in fanta strawberry, fanta grape, fanta orange, root beer, sprite, coca-cola vanilla, cherry coke, and coca-cola classic, surrounded by gummy sodas, potato chips, and bottle caps.
Comedy

Ranking All the Lipsmackers Chapsticks in the Coca-Cola Party Pack

I also solve the urgent mystery of what happened to Lip Smacker Dr. Pepper.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 12, 2023 7 Comments
distorted glass bottles of Coke against a wavy blue and purple background with bottle caps and gummy sodas
Comedy

It “Happened” to Me: I Went to the World of Coca-Cola and Barely Made It Out Alive

Enter this strange and fizzy queer retelling of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — if you dare.

ashni March 11, 2023 5 Comments
Two American Girl Dolls. One is blonde with green eyes and wears a purple beret and pink sweater vest over a striped buttondown. One is blonde with blue eyes in a backwards blue cap with a choker, a gray shirt, and a dark blue jumper over it.
Comedy

These New 90s American Girl Dolls Might Be the Gayest Yet

There is truly something for everyone here, from the hyper femme Isabel and her tiny kitten, to the very cool, very soft butch Nicki and her alien pillow.

Analyssa February 24, 2023 9 Comments
Photo 1: an old white guy wizard in a white outfit gestures while lightning strikes behind him. Photo 2: a screencap of howl lying depressively on a brocade pillow. he is an anime guy with dark hair and an earring. Photo 3: a photo of a piece of wizard art on my sister's wall that depicts a wizard in a brown robe with long white beard sitting in a city apartment kitchen holding a beer with chips spilled at the bottom of his feet. Photo 4: a screen shot of merlin in disney's the sword and the stone dancing around in his vacation outfit which is a red baseball cap, rainbow tee shirt, florida shorts, and converse sneakers. he is giddily dancing. Photo 5: an image of Orko who wears a red hat and robe and purple scarf. his blue hands and ears are the only body parts visible and his glowing yellow eyes peer out from darkness. Photo 6: a purple wizard wearing a studded red outfit and cap reaches out toward the viewer. he has sharp nails and evil orange eyes and sharp teeth
Comedy

19 Wizards Ranked by How Well They Match My Gender Feelings

Orko is the worst part of He-Man. Orko does, however, get points for simply refusing to have their body perceived.

Nico February 23, 2023 32 Comments
A young blonde boy with a bowl cut in a Mouse Trap commercial from the 90s, a young boy in a backwards cap in an elevator for a Talkboy commerical from the 90s, a young boy pulling Nickelodeon's GAK out of his nose from a 90s commercial, and two young boys in a Creepy Crawlers laboratory with one wearing a lab coat and the other in a flannel in a commercial from the 90s
Comedy

Nine Boys From 90s Toy Commercials Who Have My Exact Same Energy

The boys in 90s toy commercials displayed an Exceptionally Dykey aesthetic, and to my younger self, that was Peak Cool.

Ro White January 29, 2023 9 Comments
Cruella De Vil, Mother Gothel, Maleficent, and Yzma
Comedy

How Happy Could I Make These Disney Villains?

Aside from the murdering dogs thing, Cruella rocks! She’s got a theme song, she’s got henchmen, and literally no one on earth has made smoking look better.

Christina Tucker January 23, 2023 12 Comments
a teddy bear peers up at the camera from the ground
Comedy

I Say “Hello, Nice To Meet You” to Stuffed Animals In Case Someone’s Soul Is Trapped Inside

Can anyone relate?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 22, 2023 29 Comments
The new Clue board game box
Comedy

Every Character in the New Clue Board Game Could Ruin Your Life

When you think about Clue, if your first thought is “Man I wish that were a sexier, gayer game,” then boy do I have news for you!

Analyssa January 7, 2023 13 Comments
Victoria Grayson, Maya Lewis, Emily Gilmore, Regina Mills, Irina Derevko, and Jane Burke
Comedy TV Lists

Could I Make These Iconic Mean Moms From TV Happy?

There is no television character that gives me greater joy than the mean mom. I could blame it on many things: mommy issues, the fact that I started watching CBS primetime dramas when I was like nine, general homosexual unwellness — the list goes on.

Christina Tucker January 3, 2023 17 Comments
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