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Melissa King takes a mirror pic in an apres ski outfit holding a Topo Chico
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Melissa King Proves Après Ski Is the Only Part of Skiing I’d Actually Be Into

Also, the meeting of the Regina Georges at SNL was iconic I fear.

Christina Tucker January 24, 2024 2 Comments
Desire Lines: an image from the film of Theo Germaine touching Aden Hakimi, both of them shirtless. Beige background with Sundance 2024 on the side.
Movie Reviews

Sundance 2024: “Desire Lines” Is an Experimental Documentary About Transmascs Who F*ck Men

Not much in Desire Lines hasn’t already been said at many trans hangouts. There’s still a value to having these varied experiences captured on-screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 24, 2024 15 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Searching for Intelligent Life

Why does Waldo only wear stripes?

Kate Hawkins January 24, 2024 1 Comment
Love on the Spectrum queer: Journey, a teenage Black girl wearing a pastel pink top smiles at the camera.
TV Reviews

“Love on the Spectrum” Fails to Give Its Queer Woman the Dates She Deserves

While I was happy for Journey to be able to date, it felt like she was denied the opportunity to have age and experience-level appropriate encounters.

Nico January 23, 2024 10 Comments
an abstract head that is open with a dish and cutlery coming out of it
Health

What Queers Need To Know About Eating Disorders

Despite finishing a Master’s in Psychology — in queer healthcare access, no less — I didn’t realize I had a serious eating disorder until afterward.

Summer Tao January 23, 2024 9 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: What If You Never Want To Move In Together?

“I asked her if there’s a world in which we always live separately but still spend most nights together, and she didn’t say no but she also said she was having a hard time imagining it.”

Riese January 23, 2024 10 Comments
a collage of a lesbian couple embracing sweetly, the back of a person bound in shibari bondage, a woman's hand doing a fingering motion with a grapefruit, a background of a snowy, sleepy suburban town and the words "anonymous sex diaries" over top of it all
AF+

Anonymous Sex Diary: Shibari and Stolen Privacy

“I’m not in a place where coming out to my family is a reasonable option. Fortunately, I have a husband who is more than happy to cover me during my prolonged phone conversations with other partners.”

Guest January 23, 2024 1 Comment
Oscar Nominations 2024: a still from Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone looks toward the camera smiling
Movie Features

Oscar Nominations 2024: From “Barbie” to Lily Gladstone, the Full List of Nominees

Attention Awards gays! The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards have arrived!

Drew Burnett Gregory January 23, 2024 7 Comments
Renee Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion perform in front of the lesbian flag colors, singing "Not My Fault" from Mean Girls on SNL
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Renée Rapp Identifies as a Lesbian Now!

Reneé Rapp made a lesbian bodyguard joke involving Cara Delevingne and Megan Thee Stallion, made a different lesbian joke on SNL, and continues her iconic behavior. Also: Kirsten Stewart will make you squirm, the 20-year anniversary of D.E.B.S. and more!

Valerie Anne January 22, 2024 19 Comments
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
LGBT Book Reviews

“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief

Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.

Stef Rubino January 22, 2024 2 Comments
VivziePop interview: VivziePop at the Streamy Awards holding up her award with one hand and putting the other over her mouth in surprise
TV Feature

Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) on “Hazbin Hotel,” Her Favorite Musicals, and Giving People Second Chances

“I really love writing romance. Romance and angst and tragedy.”

Rendy Jones January 22, 2024 5 Comments
old fashioned recipe cards with cursive recipes written on them for blondies
Food and Drink

Confessions Of A Stress Baker

Creaming together butter and sugar keeps me from picking at my cuticles until they bleed.

Sa'iyda Shabazz January 22, 2024 3 Comments
Sebastian Sundance: A close up of RUARIDH MOLLICA in Sebastian. Beige background with Sundance 2024 on the side.
Movie Reviews

Sundance 2024: “Sebastian” Fails in Its Self-Critique of a Gay Sex Work Story

Sex work as a topic is not enough to make a story interesting.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 22, 2024 1 Comment
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Having a Sandwich

Why did Adele cross the road?

Darby Ratliff January 22, 2024
Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney
Music

Sleater-Kinney Is Back With an Album About Moving Through Grief

To be alive, to be human in the world we’ve created, means we’re going to keep experiencing the devastation of loss.

Stef Rubino January 21, 2024 2 Comments
Four images from the 2024 film Mean Girls, Janis and Damian in class, Regina George in her car, Cady Heron and the other plastics, and finally the plastics in their signature pink.
Quizzes

Quiz: Which Mean Girls Character Are You?

I mean I don’t know what else was to tell you, Mean Girls is queer culture. It was decided by a jury of your peers.

Carmen Phillips January 21, 2024 1 Comment
Drag Race 1603 recap: side by side images of Nymphia's tie look
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1603 Recap: Mommy Issues

With talent and charm, Nymphia is the star of this episode. While others are stressing, she has time to flutter around the workroom being funny and chaotic.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 20, 2024 4 Comments
Corky biting Violet's finger in a sex scene in Bound
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
A nighttime exterior photo of The Abbey
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
In a panel of a comic, a character (a black queer person with glasses) comes running into a room to tell their two friends (both queer, one white with blue hair, one black) about their bad day.
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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