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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Sex in “Bound” Changed Our Lives

Bound was so ahead of its time it would still be ahead of its time if it came out today.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
January 20, 2024 10 Comments
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Community Politics + Activism

Los Angeles Gay Bar The Abbey Faces an Overdue Reckoning

In a detailed report from The 19th, over 70 people describe being drugged at The Abbey — including many queer women.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 20, 2024 12 Comments
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Webcomics

Reine #56: Baby

This one goes out to everyone who ever called their teacher mommy on accident.

Ren Strapp January 20, 2024 1 Comment
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Boobs on Your Tube: After Five Years, Alice’s Finally Growing Into the Confidence of Her Convictions on “Good Trouble”

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17. Not being enthusiastic enough about my new cat

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 19, 2024 17 Comments
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TV Reviews

Hazbin Hotel Is a Musical Extravaganza About a Bubbly Queer Princess of Hell

It’s very healing to see the Princess of Hell be a happy-go-lucky queer girl, living her best life with a girlfriend by her side.

Valerie Anne January 19, 2024 8 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors 204 Recap: Who Did Parvati Shallow Poison?

The challenge for the day is an extremely theatrical, preemptive funeral march/trivia game for the yet-to-be-identified poison victim.

Anya Richkind January 19, 2024 4 Comments
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Relationships

Forget New Relationship Energy, Embrace Stable Relationship Energy

Rather than striving for New Relationship Energy within a relationship that isn’t new, why don’t we embrace Stable Relationship Energy?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 19, 2024 5 Comments
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Puzzles

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How To Make the Website for Your Lesbian Wedding

I put the date on my website homepage no less than three times because apparently GAYS CAN’T READ.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 18, 2024 9 Comments
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Gender

How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends

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Summer Tao January 18, 2024 2 Comments
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Politics + Activism

How Bluestockings Bookstore Is Fighting To Keep Serving Queer, Trans, and Houseless Communities

I wish this were just a piece on how a longstanding queer bookstore and refuge is finding ways to continue practicing care and love for their community. Unfortunately, this is also a story of gentrification and white supremacist capitalism not caring about what’s right and medically safe.

Gen January 18, 2024 8 Comments
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TV Reviews

“Sort Of” Season Three Reinvents the Transition Story

Not only is the season a new kind of transition story; it also recontextualizes the entire show as a new kind of transition story.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 18, 2024 1 Comment
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From the very beginning, Bella’s freedom was dependent on her ability to pay for it and to keep paying for it.

Stef Rubino January 18, 2024 23 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

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Riese January 17, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Reviews

“SkyMed” Has Freak Accidents and A LOT of Queer Characters

SkyMed’s second season reveals one regular as bisexual and introduces three more queer women.

Valerie Anne January 17, 2024 3 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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Christina Tucker January 17, 2024 1 Comment
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The L Word: Generation Q

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Sa'iyda Shabazz January 17, 2024 1 Comment
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