Carly Usdin Is Making Hollywood Gayer Every Day (And You Can Help)
The beloved director of Suicide Kale and writer of High Vinyl is making a queer rom-com in conjunction with AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women!
We Relived the Black, Feminist Magic of “Living Single” and You Can Too
Unlike so many other sitcoms from the ’90s, this one really holds up.
It’s Official: “Riverdale” River Vixen Cheryl Blossom is Bisexual!
The CW should probably change their slogan from “dare to defy” to “dare to BE BI.”
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.
7 New Releases from Queer and Trans Musicians to Add to Your Spring Playlists
I drive my car for my job right now, and listen to music in the car constantly. As such, I’m always on the lookut for new tunes by queer and trans artists to make the drives less mind-numbing. My struggle is your gain!
20 Afrofuturist Songs, Books and Artists to Help with Your “Black Panther” Withdrawal
Let’s fill that Black Panther-shaped hole in your heart.
If You Love Brave Little Toasters and BB8 You’re Gonna Want To Play “Rumu”
This is a game about a vacuum that is not about vacuuming, and it’s a game about sadness that is not a sad game. I did cry at the end, but I basically always cry at the end.
A-Camp Spring 2018: It’s Time To Donate and/or Apply for Camperships!
Read the heartwarming essays from some of 2017’s A-Campership recipients and learn more about donating or applying yourself! We’ve even got a tax-deductible donation option this year that you’ll wanna know all about.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for March 2018
This month brings Venus — planet of “hmm, maybe it would be nice to touch another human…” — into Aries, sign of “I’m going to explode if we don’t do this right now!”
“Black Lightning” Episode 106 Recap: Superheroes Run in the Family
Of all the ways that the Pierce’s mutual secret-identity reveal was going to come about, I definitely never expected a raw knuckle superhero fight.
Pop Culture Fix: Gina Rodriguez Is Playing Stephanie Beatriz’s Girlfriend on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Also: a 9 to 5 reboot with Lily and Jane and Dolly? Paramount puts a pin in Heathers, Evan Rachel Wood’s new queer movie trailer is here, Vulture wonders about the bisexual boom on TV, and more!
Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too
If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”
Georgia Is Back on Its Religious Freedom Bullshit, Goes After LGBTQ Adoption
Last Friday the Georgia state senate passed a bill that will allow state-funded adoption agencies to refuse to place children with parents they disapprove of because of their religious beliefs.
“Good Girls” Is Made for This #MeToo Moment
Good Girls tries to do a little too much right out of the gate, but thankfully one of those things is capturing the spirit of the Women’s March and the female-driven resistance.
You Need Help: You’re in Love with a Straight Girl and You Want It to Stop
Take a deep breath. You can get through this.
No Filter: Kehlani Is Having a Love Affair with This Orange Slushie
Also, Janelle Monáe is taking over the world and the cast of Orange Is The New Black are ruining your photo shoot.
Second Circuit Courts Rule Title VII Includes Protections for LGB Employees, Trump and Sessions Be Damned
Although the Trump administration is still insisting that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace doesn’t apply to LGBT people, the Second Circuit just ruled that it should and does apply to sexual orientation.
My Old Elementary School Is a Toxic Waste Site and Other Environmental Nightmares
“Environmental problems are hitting Black neighborhoods particularly hard, but going unresolved because Black lives are deemed less valuable than others. A lot of us are being left in the dark about harm being done to our environment.”
Is Oscar-Nominated “Revolting Rhymes” Secretly a Lesbian Love Story About Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood?
The subtext is so discernible we have a hard time believing it’s unintentional.
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.”