“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”
I realized something inside of me had forever changed the first time I was smoking with the windows down and the music loud in my car and thought to myself “Huh, I could imagine myself doing SoulCycle to this song.”
A reporter asked Hillary how many calories are in this and she booed him and kept eating. Damn right.
What makes an orgasm an orgasm, why crushes are fun, why queer porn is into safer sex (but you should still vote no on 60) and more.
Sally Ride rides again, the Cubs won the World Series and here are some literal bear cubs, good gay and trans news from around the world, Hillary’s interview with The Washington Blade, and more!
Luisa and Rose take 153 trips around the Great Barrier Reef, Arizona’s got a new love interest, Maggie’s got a real girlfriend, Rosewood keeps the slow reconciliation burn going, and more queer TV from the week!
Unlike books, podcasts block out other-people noise.
“We were up all night reading articles about the election.”
An Atlanta man who killed Catherine Montoya was was found guilty of murder, rape, aggravated assault and aggravated sodomy; gentrification and the closing of gay bars; a group within the FBI is pro-Trump and attempting to influence the election; a Muslim trans woman in Russia was murdered and more news.
2016 has seen the expansion of black storytelling on major TV networks with shows like Insecure and Atlanta, but Brown Girls’ DIY attitude and background opens up the possibilities of experiences that can be shared.
Can you help me understand why I identify so strongly with 80s music videos?
Do you have enough flannels? Tell me all about it.
This week we’ve got genius column ideas, eloquent troll slayers, librarians and so much more!
Topics include Dominos pizza, Cracker Barrel, leaving New York City, an alcoholic sportswriter, Stitch’s Great Escape, Kesha and SO MUCH MORE
This round we cover accidental likes, likes without following, the death of vine, and more!
“E.L. Fudge is strictly for children, as no adult can actually eat them with any dignity or hope for their future.”
Gavin Grimm won his court case about being able to use the correct facilities at his school, but now the school board is taking the case to the Supreme Court, where a lot hangs in the balance.
GLAAD has released its annual Where We Are On TV Report. The cold, hard stats prove that it’s been a bleak year for queer women on television.
Hey, did you watch the 50th Anniversary of the Country Music Awards last night? I didn’t either! But I did watch Beyoncé and the Dixie Chick’s performance of “Daddy Lessons” and hot damn! It was fucking amazing.
Sometimes it’s nice to lose yourself in a world where the only thing standing between an imperfect but evolving society and the end of the world is you, and you can actually do something about it. And also get gay married.