Attention A+ Members: We’ve Got A Form and a Survey For You
If you never got your A+ sticker or t-shirt, we’d like to fix that this week! Also, we’ve got an A+ member survey we’d love for you to fill out to help us make A+ EVEN MORE AWESOME.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: All the Queermos Who Are Independent, Comment Here
Get in here and get free with me! Even if it’s just for the afternoon while you grill a veggie burger in your flip-flops. I’m okay with that.
Playlist: Sugarbooty Blackout Mix
Jasika Nicole and Claire Savage delivered a perfect mix on an actual CD and it was perfect.
Get Baked: Three Brilliant Blueberry Recipes To Try This Summer
Here’s what you do if you have 18 pounds of highbush organic New Jersey blueberries.
Miley Cyrus Makes Out With Nice Young Lady While Wearing Gold Sequins, Also Her #Instapride Campaign Is Legit
BREAKING: Famous person kisses famous person.
10 Summer Meet-Up Ideas for Queers Who Like Friends, Fun, Potentially Also Ice Cream Cones
From the dog park to your front stoop, these are the places you could hang out with your fellow ‘straddlers this summer to beat the heat, make some friends, and potentially get a little drunk.
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Chrystos and ‘In Her I Am’
Every two weeks I’ll profile a queer lit title that’s outside of the public eye for one reason or another: obscure, small-press, older, aimed at a different niche, or otherwise underrated. This week, we’re learning about Chrystos!
Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Pate
“I mean you can’t just have a keychain that says ‘stud muffin’ and not admit that you have a girlfriend.”
You Need Help: Starting Over at Thirtysomething
You just broke up with your partner, you’re buying IKEA furniture, moving into a share house and you’re sad — how do you become a functioning adult again?
Orange Is The New Black Episode 305 Recap: Fake Acid, Fake Personality Tests and Real Panties
Piper and Alex make plans to be stereotypical lesbeans! Black Cindy gets some new curls. Flaca starts a feelings-war with her homegirls in the kitchen. And everyone fills out their E-Harmony profile together!
Follow Your Arrow: Where Finding Your Passion Meets Building a Business
Welcome to this new column featuring interviews with queer and trans women running all kinds of businesses! We’ll talk about the challenges, what drives us, tools and tips, workspaces, marketing, and realism. First up: Beth interviews herself about her business, Little Red Tarot.
Pretty Little Liars 605 Recap: The Girl With the Tippi Tattoo
Sara Harvey takes Emily to get a tattoo while Spencer and Hanna go creeping in the Radley Basement of Infinite Horrors.
The Story of “No”
This year, from April 20th until June 12th, I made some variation of “no” my Facebook status every day. It was just something I found vaguely funny but by the end it was something that I could count on for strength.
No Filter Brought An Umbrella To Pride
This week, pretty much the whole cast of Orange Is The New Black went to Pride and Lea DeLaria high-fived a million angels.
The A+ Bee Issue 22: The QTPOC Speakeasy Takeover
Get your Drakecast, some serious love-filled Missed Connections and a good dose of Speakeasy live in this edition of the A+ Bee. Also, we threw in the Christina Aguilera’s Dirty video just for funs.
Pop Culture Fix: Girls Like Girls Like Ellen DeGeneres, Tig Notaro and Lethal Lesbian Vampires
Stories include lethal lesbian vampires, Ellen Page’s lesbian movie Freeheld, girls liking girls in music videos, Welcome to the Dollhouse Part Duex, Ellen changing the world, Tig Notaro’s new doc and so much more!
Love & Canada: My Lesbian Immigration Marriage Feelings, Part 1
The thing about my future immigration marriage is that it’s an immigration marriage but not an IMMIGRATION marriage. I still don’t want to know what save the dates are though.
Fool’s Journey: The Language of Numbers in the Minor Arcana
Numbers play a major role in the structure of tarot. The numbers running through the four suits each have their own themes, providing another helpful way to interpret your cards!
Pretty Little Liars Episode 604 Recap: Burning In Water, Drowning In Flame
Alison finds out all the ways Charles tried to murder her when she was a baby, and Emily defiles the Holy Water.
Working On It: My Fitness Quest for Immortality (Or as Close as I Can Get)
“This will become a regular thing — a weekly recap of what’s working for me and what isn’t on my personal quest for improved health and wellness. There’ll be a lot of ground to cover because I have no fucking clue what I’m doing. Everything I know about health was taught to me by a giraffe that lived in a trailer.”