The first out queer woman crowned Miss Missouri and maybe soon Miss America, a Tory Minister comes out for Britain’s Pride celebrations, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton love you a whole lot, and more good news you can use to soothe your aching soul.
Queer nightlife in the early twentieth century, taking yourself out to dinner, a herpes vaccine, talking about chronic health problems and more.
In one sentence Black Cindy sums up the writing of this entire season: “Y’all, we ain’t think this shit through.”
Nine apps and websites to make getting together with the fam a whole lot easier.
As a genderqueer human, clothes have always made me feel weird.
It’s Friday Open Thread time, which means it’s time to all compliment your friends!
Spoiler alert: Piper is the woooorst.
This week we have adorable prom stories, comment poetry, arts and crafts, Game of hotness and so much more!
LINKS! I’ve got some for you! NYC is becoming a utopia of free tampons and gender neutral restrooms, fat-positivity in reproductive justice, Janet Mock on Stonewall, female graffiti artists, Gaby Dunn loves A-Camp, and mama bears using humans to protect their cubs.
So much news today! The Democrats’ sit-in in the House over gun legislation, SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, the status of many undocumented people in the US, the Dollar General case, as well as rulings related to Freddie Gray’s death and trans kids using bathrooms at school, and more.
All the women of Litchfield deserve so much better.
Topics include my personal problems with Bustle’s SEO strategy, beating airport boredom, Gawker Media filing for bankruptcy and more!
Books to read for Pride, searching for representation, cotton candy queer lit, books as taxidermy, books and reading and food and eating, and more.
These songs are essentially our generation’s “feel a little poke coming through” in “Too Close” by Next.
Plus Laverne Cox and Queen Latifah hang out, Person of Interest ends on a kind of happy sapphic note, the actresses who play Daenerys Targaryen and Yara Greyjoy are shipping it too, a new adorable clip from Finding Dory and more queer pop culture news!
Also, Tegan and Sara are riding a bus filled with twins, Ruby Rose is making dad jokes and Laura Jane Grace is stuck in a freezer.
No Hope Allowed.
Life is but a meme.
In my last installment of Rebel Girls, I briefed you on some of the badass glass ceiling crashers currently serving in office who are queer as f*ck. These six women came before them.
This playlist accompanies all of the feelings I have being queer in suburbia: gay, lonely, bored, and confused by my neighbors’ dedications to their lawns.