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Femme Brûlée: Lemon Tart with Lavender Shortbread Crust

If this tart were a couple it’d be the one that everyone loves to have around because they’re funny and sociable and attractive so they’re the life of the party but not because they have to be the center of attention, it just happens naturally.

Reneice Charles September 16, 2017 19 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: We Are Not American Horror Story’s Michigan Lesbian After All

Mariah and Tessa smooched on The Young and the Restless, Maggie found love in an Irish place on Younger, and Ryan Murphy is still Ryan Murphy.

Heather Hogan September 15, 2017 21 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Wearing Discovery Flannel

DO NOT use genitalia as a champagne flute.

Darcy September 15, 2017 36 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Autostraddle’s Very Scientific and Unbiased 2017 Emmy Predictions

Vote for your favorites and then join us for our Emmys liveblog on Sunday night!

the team September 15, 2017 27 Comments
Straddleverse

Friday Open Thread: New College Year’s Resolutions

How has college been treating you so far? And if you’re not in college how does September feel to you? Is it just like any other time of year?

Siobhan September 15, 2017 90 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable

Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.

Riese September 15, 2017 18 Comments
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Playlist: End Of The World

Let’s unwind and imagine that everything is fine for 47 minutes with this End Of The World Playlist.

Kai September 15, 2017 11 Comments
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Liquor On Vacation: Where the Whiskey Comes From

On this small island, there are eight Scotch whisky distilleries. I visited three of them, all within a couple miles of each other: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig. Here’s what I learned.

A.E. Osworth September 14, 2017 13 Comments
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How To Move in With a Partner and Still Like Each Other After

Sure, it’s nice to have an extra person to help you carry boxes, but who will carry all of these feelings?

Adrian September 14, 2017 4 Comments
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“Top of The Lake” Offers Nicole Kidman as a Queer Mom, Brienne Of Tarth, Elisabeth Moss, and So Many Terrible Men

The second season of “Top of the Lake” is on Hulu and if you like dark detective stories, can stomach a lot of misogyny and wanna see Nicole Kidman play gay again… you might wanna check it out.

Riese September 14, 2017 6 Comments
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GALLERY: Maggie West’s Neon NSFW Full-Frontal Fight Against Rape Culture

In a new art installation, Los Angeles-based photographer Maggie West, who specializes in experimental technicolor lighting and whose work increasingly critiques still-rigid contemporary ideas about gender and sexuality, worked with 40 women subjects — including Stephanie Beatriz, Nikki Hearts, Gaby Dunn, Jazzmyne Robbins, Isis King and more — to do just that.

Ryan Yates September 14, 2017 10 Comments
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“Life Is Strange: Before the Storm” Review: Be Prepared To Love Chloe More Than You Ever Thought Possible

This is, essentially, the best angst fanfiction I have ever read.

dufrau September 14, 2017 25 Comments
Comedy Lesbian Weddings

At Least No One Asked You to Fake a Straight Wedding With Your Lesbian Wife Today

What lesbian hasn’t pretended to be a man to get married to the woman she’s already married to, just once?

Heather Hogan September 14, 2017 44 Comments
Queer Fashion Shopping

19 Pairs of Large Size Shoes for Under $50

Super cute flats, sandals, and pumps up to at least a size 13.

Nora September 14, 2017 13 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Empathy Is A Clock

How empathy works, a new quarterly queer book club box, literary sequels, narratives in old letters and more.

Ryan Yates September 14, 2017 2 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Samira Wiley Is Out Here Gaying Up Women’s Magazines, Saving The World

A San Junipero sequel? Maybe! Plus Emma Stone as Billie Jean King, a new zombie movie from Ellen Page, some Rachel-on-Rachel sex from TIFF, Supergirl’s new teaser and more.

Heather Hogan September 13, 2017 25 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #31: Today’s Sway Is Tomorrow’s Gay

“Enter, children, unto my super gay gingerbread house of sweet queer temptation.”

Dickens September 13, 2017 4 Comments
Politics + Activism

Refund Equality Act Aims to Recover Same-Sex Couples’ Tax Benefits Denied by DOMA

This legislation would ensure that legally-married same-sex couples – who, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision, were barred from filing federal taxes jointly – are permitted to file amended tax returns back to the date of their marriage.

Priya September 13, 2017 4 Comments
First Person Politics + Activism

Why I’m Going To Run for Office

“I’m done putting my faith in well-meaning surrogates. That’s not enough now, and it never really was.”

Carrie September 13, 2017 32 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Demi Lovato Is Here and So Is Her Little Dog

Evan Rachel Wood celebrates her birthday, Gaby Dunn celebrates America, Kristin Russo celebrates fashion week and we all celebrate Demi.

Stef September 13, 2017 14 Comments
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