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Things I Read That I Love #238: Mythological Teen Goddesses Haunting Texas Supermarkets.

Topics include Twin Peaks, the Menendez Brothers murders, white supremacy, the artwashing of Boyle Heights, Richard Nixon, waterparks, “The Perils of Privilege” and so much more!

Riese May 26, 2017 8 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Warm This House Up

Do you have any fur kids? What are their names? How did they come into your life?

Kai May 26, 2017 111 Comments
A very small tan and white pup with floppy ears poking over the top of a white laptop with the text "Hey, did you see that comment?!"
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Knotting Their Pearls

Come for the euphemisms, stay for the butties! It’s the Comment Awards, now with more gender bending Gillian Anderson. Praise.

Darcy May 26, 2017 10 Comments
Comedy Queer Fashion

Steal Their Looks: The Donald Trump Administration

Not only are they serving up our wholesale demise, they’re serving looks.

Erin May 26, 2017 38 Comments
Gender

Sherrell Faulkner of NC 11th Trans Person of Color Murdered in the US This Year

Nearly all those murdered, including Faulkner, have been Black trans women.

Mey May 25, 2017 3 Comments
A couple standing with their arms around each other, both smiling — one at her partner, one at the camera. They are wearing matching short-sleeved button down shirts, patterned with outlines of planets, rocket ships, and stars.
Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt

An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!

Carrie May 25, 2017 19 Comments
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Mainstream Film Said “Mmmm Nope” to Representing Queer Women in 2016, GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index Reveals

At least one-third of the lesbian and bisexual female characters in major studio films last year appeared on-screen for under ten seconds, which is only one of many problems revealed by GLAAD’s 2016 Studio Responsibility Index.

Riese May 25, 2017 18 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix: Poussey and Taystee Reunite Forever in San Junipero

Plus some new scenes from OITNB’s new season, Carrie Fisher’s last Star Wars cover shoot, Ellen’s first standup special in 15 years, Wynonna Earp key art, Queen Sugar’s second season trailer and more!

Heather Hogan May 25, 2017 22 Comments
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Liquor In the Moving Boxes: A Monkey Wrench While I Pack My Bar

Ugh. I’m moving. Here’s a monkey wrench.

A.E. Osworth May 25, 2017 5 Comments
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“Little Nightmares” Is Full of Grown-Up Terror

So basically, in summary, they took all the things you were afraid of as a child and they made a four-hour-long game that I recommend.

Jenna May 25, 2017 9 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Gaby Dunn Is Here To Take Your Wife

How was your Brittani Nichols today?

Stef May 25, 2017 10 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Fragile

Meme historians, the necessary fragility of feminism and radical politics, poetry a fatal, first-person queer writing as a way to shift power and more.

Ryan Yates May 25, 2017 4 Comments
another shot of Maggie nestled on Alex's shoulder
TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 222 Recap: Strong at the Broken Places

Go get ’em, Supergirl.

Valerie Anne May 24, 2017 100 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Episode 715 Recap: The Heart of The Thing Is Mechanical

Paige and Emily say goodbye for the last time.

dufrau May 24, 2017 34 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child #23: Foolish Tempo

Could you please turn down — and I use this term very loosely — “your” music?

Dickens May 24, 2017 10 Comments
Geekery

Gayme Night: Unspeakable Words In a Bar

What do you do when your apartment is boxes? Throw Gayme Night in a bar instead!

A.E. Osworth May 24, 2017 4 Comments
LGBT History

10 Very Gay Excerpts from Vita and Virginia’s Love Letters

The lives (and affair) of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is coming to the big screen this year. Here are some of the gayest things they wrote to one another.

Alice Lesperance May 24, 2017 21 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews Money + Work

Emilie Wapnick’s How To Be Everything

Why pick between your passions when you can design a life based on ALL of them?

Beth May 23, 2017 15 Comments
House & Garden

This Queer House, Vol. 2: It’s Electric!

Get ready to dazzle friends and loved ones with a new dimmer switch that is sure to set the mood for any occasion.

Jenna May 23, 2017 19 Comments
TV Reviews

Master Of None’s Coming Out Episode Is One of the Realest Things You’ve Ever Seen on TV

The character-driven Thanksgiving is set almost entirely in a single location, and unlike most small-screen coming out stories, this one spans 22 years because Denise’s journey is a marathon; not a sprint.

Kai May 23, 2017 22 Comments
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