Pets & Animals

Dogs I’ve Known and Loved

Relax, it’s Friday. Enjoy some dog content.

Geekery Shopping

Relevant To Your Interests: All Hail Lumpy Space Princess

Lumpy Space Princess makes me happy. That’s all.

Gender

You Need Help: My Mom Supports My Bisexuality, but Not My Butchness

Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: A Link Roundup with Gifs and Lesbians and At Least One Controversial Essay, Plus More Stuff

Ijeoma Oluo interviews Rachel Dolezal, gentrification, republican trans women, Poly Styrene, that NYT piece, an update on my swimsuit situation and even more!

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Marvel Says “Black Panther” Features Gal Pals, Not Lesbians!

A new Broad City short shows Abbi and Ilana enjoying this day, Tig Notaro talks about SNL stealing her material, Jane Lynch is done having sex, a peek at KStew’s directorial debut, and a new lesbian friend for Quinn on season three of UNreal.

Queer Pregnancy

Aspiring Queer Mom Seeks Black Sperm Donor, Can’t Find Too Many

I am not white, and I don’t particularly want white kids. I definitely do not want to pay for white sperm.

Camp Queer Fashion

Heaven is a Place at A-Camp: Femme Looks For The A-Camp May 2017 Dance

The A-Camp dance theme this May is Heaven is Place On Earth, so I want to see everyone in their best Billy Idol, Rhythm Nation, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Beals, Ronald Reagan, Paula Abdul, Jem & The Holograms drag.

Relationships

Poly Pocket: If You Don’t Take Care Of Yourself, It Just Doesn’t Work

“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”

Visual Art

“Kings & Queens In Their Castles” Captures Queers At Home

Sometimes you have to step outside to remember who you are and who you want to be. And sometimes, you have to retreat to the epicentre of yourself, surrounded by whatever environment you can create.

Geekery

Gayme Night: Gather Your Party, Let’s Play Dungeons and Dragons

So you’re Dungeons-and-Dragons-curious but you’ve never given it a try? Here’s how to get started DMing your very own Gayme.

TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Episode 711 Recap: A Baby Born in a Madhouse

Paige and Ali and Emily are caught in a decade-old love triangle that’s still got teeth.

Geekery

The Science March Is this Week; Let’s Unite to End Run Trump’s Awful Budget

President Trump doesn’t set the budget; Congress does. And all 435 seats in the House and 34 out of 100 seats in the Senate will be up for midterm elections next year.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Shannon Purser Is Bisexual: Stranger Things’ Star Is Her Own Justice for Barb

“I don’t normally do this, but I figure now is just as good a time as any to get personal. I’ve only just recently come out as bisexual to my family and friends. It’s something I am still processing and trying to understand.”

Webcomics

Oh Hey! It’s Alyssa #19: Notorious George

George. The light that never goes out.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Samira Wiley Rocks Autostraddle’s Gal Pal T-shirt on Her Honeymoon

Also, Jasika Nicole enters a virtual world and Carrie Brownstein goes to outer space.

LGBT History

Pompeii, the “Two Maidens,” and Thousands of Years of Precarious Masculinity

New evidence that the famous “two maidens” of Pompeii may have been male — but does that actually mean, as some have suggested, that they were a gay couple?

TV Reviews

All I Want From Pretty Little Liars’ Final Season Is For a Man to Be Held Accountable For Literally Anything

Pretty Little Liars kicks off its final season tonight. Ten episodes to tell us who ultimately gets caught with the A baton in their hands, who killed Charlotte, who shot Spencer, who gave birth to every Little Liar. Is X person good? Is Y person bad? Who will end up with whom? But I only have one question left.