The Comment Awards Are Avenging Barb
We’ve got Mike Pence as the Demagorgon, leprosy-based seduction (like you do), and threesomes with your boss!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Inner Child to the Rescue
I’ve been resuming a lot of childhood activities recently: going to concerts, playing video games, reading books for hours, spending time outdoors, shopping in the boys’ department at Gap Kids. Anyone else? Get in here and tell me about it!
Attention, Los Angeles: EVERYBODY is the Radically Inclusive Gym You’ve Been Waiting For
“I always felt better after exercising, but also always felt it came at a cost, whether that was a really dirty locker room, an overly fluorescent space playing terrible music, or having to navigate a highly gendered space and endure sexist, homophobic commentary. I wanted to create a space that felt really good to be in, like you were actually going to feel better while being there.”
Mildly Thirsty Bella Thorne Wants A Girlfriend, Like Ideally Kristen Stewart (Get In Line, Kiddo)
“I’m single as f*ck. I could not be more single. This is the longest I’ve been super single.”
25 New Queer YA Books To Read This Spring and Summer
Queer young adult fiction is exploding right now, but with so much out there, how can you figure out what to read next? These 25 queer YA novels — including superheroes, romance, small-town mysteries, mermaids, assassins and more — all feature or were written by LGBTQ women.
Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
PLAYLIST: Guy in a “Make America Great Again” Hat
Between the kind of policy making that’s forcing a societal hand to double down on a literal time bomb, this is liable to be the playlist of the summer!
“Night in the Woods”: Come for the Spooky Friendship, Stay for the Story
It’s nothing more than a story, which I don’t think I have to tell you is potentially the biggest best thing there is. Play it. Spooky friendship. Just play it.
Fool’s Journey: Reading the Bottom Card of a Deck
What can the hidden card on the bottom of a tarot decks add to a reading?
Lez Liberty Lit: Dissociating Season
Poetry by Precious Okoyomon, living a feminist life, women’s ambition, more inclusive ways to think of feminism and womanism, and more.
Stranger, Less Heterosexual Things: Barb, We Hope
Shannon Purser feels ya, Yorkie.
Hello, Goodbye: From Faking My Taste for Crushes to Falling in Love with Music for Real
Then I met Summer, a junior counselor at the Christian summer camp I went to between sixth and seventh grade. Summer wore a different band shirt almost every day: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. She told me she loved classic rock, and without hesitating, I said “me too.”
I Watched Lesbian Classic “Bar Girls” and Yeah That’s Gonna Be a No For Me
How far is heaven?
We Are One In the Same: Experts Explain What Self-Care and Community Care Really Look Like
We all know self-care is important, but what does that actually mean? I talked to four experts in mental and social health care to find out more about the nuts and bolts of what self-care and community care look like for queer communities.
61 Ways You Weirdos Described Yourselves When Signing Up For A-Camp
“If I approached everything in life with the same determination and speed I put into changing into pajamas after work, I would be a highly productive person”
The Fosters Episode 420 Recap: Stop The Madness
Man, they really went all in on making this show a murder-mystery, huh?
Foolish Child #20: Foolish Marketing
“Drink Pepsi. And have a nicer day.”
No Filter: Evan Rachel Wood Walks Into A Banana Museum
Just what it sounds like. Also, Clea DuVall, Cameron Esposito and the Quin twins are up to something and Brittani Nichols got a haircut.
That Time We Put On a Dead Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Haunted House at A-Camp
It was both the best idea and the worst idea I’ve ever had.
“Orange Is the New Black” Season 5 Is Just Around The Corner, Take a Peek
Netflix rained down a video clip from the season five premiere and a batch of promo photos for your homosexual enjoyment and speculation.