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I Can’t Believe ‘Hacks’ Has Me This Emotional About a Fictional 1970s Sitcom

What’s the right ratio between jokes and story in a show like Hacks? “Who’s Making Dinner?” contends with that question…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

5 Hours

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MOVIE LISTS

10 Gay Films You Can Stream Free in the UK (BBC, ITV, Channel 4)

From familiar classics to unfamiliar new discoveries, here’s what you could be watching on the…

Sally

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Apr 29, 2026

LGBT BOOK REVIEWS

‘Fat Swim’ and the Work of Having a Body

We are peeking into Philly neighborhoods, into their windows.

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Apr 28, 2026

BOOK LISTS

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Queer books good enough to eat.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 27, 2026

movie lists

10 Gay Films You Can Stream Free in the UK (BBC, ITV, Channel 4)

From familiar classics to unfamiliar new discoveries, here’s what you could be watching on the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 right this minute!

Sally

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Apr 29, 2026

lgbt book reviews

‘Fat Swim’ and the Work of Having a Body

We are peeking into Philly neighborhoods, into their windows.

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Apr 28, 2026

book lists

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

Queer books good enough to eat.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Apr 27, 2026

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webcomics

Foolish Child #112: Encanto

Every Madrigal sister’s journey deserves to be over analyzed into redemption!

Dickens

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pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: HBO Max’s “Batgirl” Casts Ivory Aquino as Alysia Yeoh, DC’s First Trans Movie Character

Also! The problem with How I Met Your Father, why you shouldn’t write off Che Diaz, how Whitney and Robyn fell in love, and more!

Heather Hogan

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The words "You are going to be fine" written on a garage style door that is painted a soft pink.

first person

I Used Instagram Mantras As Therapy — And It Worked

They served as daily messages your best friend should tell you when you’re hurting — and in desperate need of a silver lining.

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celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Keke Palmer Is So Stunning and Charming, She Should Be the Host of Everything on Earth Forever!

Also: Cynthia Nixon is doing Fashion now, which I am very pro!! And I cannot get over the fact that Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts are matching in this random…

Christina Tucker

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Jan 26, 2022

Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock in Ocean's 8 looking shifty

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Ah Yes, the Scammer-To-Girlboss Pipeline

A fun lil read on how scammers became cultural icons, a celebration of Tatyana Ali’s ‘90s fashion, an ode to plant parents, and who’s all gay at the winter olympics.

Carmen Phillips

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Jan 25, 2022

A person with brown skin types on a typewriter.

first person

As a Black, Fat, Disabled Person in Love, My Monogamy Feels Radical

For me, navigating polyamorous dynamics with white people is inherently taxing and painful as a Black person.

Teighlor McGee

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Jan 25, 2022

Sofia Black-D'Elia as Sam in Single Drunk Female

tv reviews

Freeform’s “Single Drunk Female” Finds the Funny in Sobriety

Single Drunk Female is a show about starting fresh, not just about drinking or not drinking.

Analyssa

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Jan 25, 2022

A photo of theatre with a photo of the RENT playbill on top.

theater

It’s Your Anniversary: Rent Was My First Class On Anti-Capitalism

I felt even more galvanized by the queer anti-capitalist characters I had come to know so well — and felt seen in the small choices I made to work towards…

Em Win

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Jan 25, 2022