Mike Huckabee is running on a Kim Davis platform, Baltimore offers a settlement to Freddie Gray’s family, James Blake is tackled by NYPD officers and more.
I’d known for a while that my colleague Colleen McKee had a book out, and one day I bought a copy from her in the break room. When I learned that it combined memoir, poetry, and fiction, I had one burning question: “Who let you do that?!”
While we await new episodes of our favorite regular season shows, we thought it would be a good time to address the thing you really care about: Which lesbian/bisexual TV characters would be the best to U-Haul with?
Where tarot tells us about what’s going on in our lives in this specific moment, astrology shows us patterns established the moment we were born, and that ring out throughout every day of our lives. An understanding of one necessarily enhances our understanding of the other — so here are some ways to pair ’em up.
I’ll be thinking of Nancy M. Johnson’s invention today as I eat ice cream with my lunch. And afternoon snack. And dinner.
Chris Brown stands up a gay party for being too gay, Ellen DeGeneres talks to Caitlyn Jenner about same-sex marriage, Bangladesh gets its first lesbian cartoon character, new music from Christine & The Queens, queers are all over The Root 100, SO MANY new queer movies to look forward to AND SO MUCH MORE!
Wildfang’s most recent lookbook stars five kickass “retirement age” folks lookin’ so fine in suits and tees!
Also Jenny Owen Youngs became a Reptile Scout and Ellen Page went to the carnival that (probably) only exists in Jenny Schecter’s mind.
“Oh! Kevin Spacey’s character is named Mike Huckabee. Oh, shit! And he’s running for President of the United States of America on a platform of Traditional Marriage! Polygamy and rape in the White House, then, I guess. This should be on HBO.”
Talking with three of the stars of trans-created webseries Her Story about love, representation, staffing a set with trans women and so much more.
The genre mix is definitely diverse but that’s expected, we did real good.
“Elizabeth kissed her back, passionately and crazily! It felt like being beat by ocean waves — but in a good way.”
This week on Faking It, everybody gets into costume play and makes bad choices.
A lesbian mom loses her lawsuit against a sperm bank, a new study finds a lot of Catholics are ok with gay parents, a Mexican trans woman receives asylum and more news stories.
“So much of being a girl in this society is about people trying to CONTAIN you. When I think about camp, I get this gut feeling, remembering the sky above my head. No walls, no parents. During the school year, you’re just trying to survive. Camp is a chance to be someone freer- an actual person.”
If you’ve been struggling to figure out where to keep all your caps, let this DIY baseball cap storage solution help you out.
Scream and Rookie Blue bid us adieu, Survior’s Remorse gets renewed, and hot damn that Hollstein kiss!
We’ve finally picked out our road trip snack shopping list, and it’s a thing of beauty.
How to make tiny boxes! Iron your shirts! Get a better password! Figure out how your oven works! There’s a baby tapir in here somewhere!
Always wondered about cooking with beer? YOUR TIME HAS COME.