Béatrice Martin Of Coeur de Pirate Is Queer
“I can’t be scared that someone will stop listening to my music, or that parents might not want their kids listening to me because of the fact that I want to love whoever I want to love.”
LGBTQ People Can’t Have Safe Spaces But We Still Need Community
“Our community is at once intimately connected and hopelessly far-flung, legitimately linked by no more than three degrees of sex partners on a worldwide daisy chain and profoundly lonely. I only had community last weekend because I’d flown three hours to get it.”
Things I Read That I Love #204: Her Boob Is So Soft It Makes Velvet Feel Like Splinters.
Topics include Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, the (formerly) most liberated woman in America, Blac Chyna, LinkedIn, sex crimes and more.
So You Want to Fuck an Able-Bodied Person
For the disabled among us, meet-cutes and the events that follow aren’t so simple to orchestrate. Need a refresher on the rules of engagement? There’s no need to go it alone!
The Comment Awards Wants To Hug Everyone
We’ve got feelings on Orlando, bisexuals, love and so much more!
Also.Also.Also: Latina Superhero La Boriqueña Stands With Orlando and Other Stories for Your Weekend
“I need a hero! I’m holding out for La Boriqueña ’til the end of the night!” Also, a Broadway benefit for Orlando, a secret feminist society, #QueerSelfLove, the Dream Defenders go to Israel and Palestine, the top five feminist conspiracies, and the Canadian national anthem gets a gender update.
OPEN THREAD: Poussey Washington Has My Heart; Who Has Yours?
How have you been taking care of yourself this week? How far into the season are you? Get in here and tell me everything.
Democrats Force Vote on Gun Control as Republicans Block Vote for LGBT Employment Protections
Votes on gun control and a failure to vote on LGBT employment protections, more news in the aftermath of the Pulse shooting in Orlando, reading the Stanford rape victim’s letter in Congress, and more.
Moments Like These (Where People Are Repulsed By My Existence)
Like the time we got kicked out of a restaurant mid-meal by the owner because of a kiss.
Follow Your Arrow: Coach Elizabeth Cooper on Grounding Her Business in Self Care
“An integral part of my business is to create and cultivate positive, meaningful, supportive relationships with everybody from my clients to my colleagues, people I’m renting space from, potential clients, etc. It’s important to me that my actions demonstrate my values that every person and every body deserves love, respect, and care.”
Relevant To Your Interests: Cooperative Boardgames for Tough Times
Some of these boardgames have individual winners at the end, some don’t, but all allow you to band together for a short time and take on a much more manageable enemy than “hate,” “the patriarchy,” and “the rest of the whole damn world.”
“Escúchame For Orlando” Lets LGBTQ Latinxs Share Their Voice On The Pulse Shooting
Escúchame for Orlando is “a place for queer Latinxs to come together and let our voices be heard about the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. This is an anonymous space because whether you’re out to the whole world, or just to yourself, you deserve to be heard.”
Not Quite There Yet: Safety and Progress In Light of the Pulse Shooting
“The morning after the horrific shooting, and the days that followed, I understood part of my father’s fear. Animosity towards LGBTQ people has not gone the way of black and white T.V. sets, phone booths, or travel by horse and carriage. It was and is very much alive.”
Queer Latinxs Share Love, Rage, Sadness and Strength For Our Family Lost in Orlando
Here are just a few of the many, many LGBTQ Latinxs in our community who are speaking up and speaking out to make sure that queer Latinxs are not erased.
Notes From A Queer Engineer: What’s the Most Effective Gun Control Strategy?
If we allow gun violence to continue blighting communities of color, we have failed. But if we enact gun control measures that aid the police state in criminalizing Black and brown bodies, we have also failed.
No Filter: Oh God Tegan And Sara Are Ruining My Life In These Masks
Also, the cast of Orange Is The New Black are being extra adorable, Demi Lovato is on the warpath and Ruby Rose maybe has a new girlfriend.
Pop Culture Fix: “Orange is The New Black” S4 Promises Delightful Poussey and Soso Situation
“Orange is the New Black” is almost here and spoilers and (tepid) reviews abound! Also: transgender visibility on TV, Whitney Houston, and the Lifetime remake of Mother May I Sleep With Danger With a Lesbian Vampire Twist.
Black Trans Woman Goddess Diamond Is The 14th Trans Person Murdered in the U.S. This Year
“She was very loved, and was very kind,” her co-worker told a New Orleans newspaper. “And that’s what makes this more difficult. In addition to losing a friend, we lost an LGBT leader.”
What We Know About the Pulse Shooting in Orlando So Far
Links, updates, and further reading on the Pulse shooting, the aftermath, the victims, the gunman, gun control, politics, some resources and centering queer Latinx voices.
Mara Wilson is Queer: Actress Felt Moved To Say She’s One Of Us
“If Mara’s coming out helps even one more Kinsey 2 realize they have the right to support and love among other queers, then that is the rich fruit borne of a celebrity making herself visible.”