Gallup And Everyone Else Wants to Know: Were You Born This Gay?
42% of Americans believe that gay people are born rather than made.
2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie And More
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.
Can’t Go Home Again: Tacos, Grief and Growing Up Without Tamale House
“My friends who hadn’t left town took me to new restaurants and bars they had found during their fledgling adulthood. Strangers lived in what had been my home. The girl I loved in May wasn’t speaking to me. I had a wonderful time, but I learned the city wasn’t mine anymore.”
Make a Thing: DIY Sparkly Flower Sunglasses Because You’re Fancy
Protect your eyes, jazz up an old pair of glasses AND gain some adorable street cred with this fun and easy project!
Webcomic “Becoming Me” Shows What it’s Like to be a Young Trans Woman Around Town
“Becoming Me” is a wonderful new webcomic featuring the adventures of a young Chilean trans woman named Mia. If you’re looking for more trans fiction in your life, this is a great place to find it.
Rest in Power, Yuri Kochiyama
Let us celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights heroine, Yuri Kochiyama.
He Said/We Said: Cherry Blossom Swoons
“After a lifetime of having to conform to an image of femininity that weighed on me like a suit of armor, I cannot express how empowering it felt to be embraced and celebrated for my authentic self.”
Top Ten Other Things We Can Just Stop Worrying About If They Have Female Names
We started wondering what other things everyone would just stop worrying about altogether if they were more reminiscent of hairbows and apple pies.
Novel Idea: What If We Actually Researched Whether Menstrual Products Are Safe to Use
In spite of the number of people who use menstrual hygiene products, researchers in the United States aren’t doing very much to look into the safety of our products.
26 Things to Dip Your Chips In, You Wild Animal You
What even is cooking? How does it work? You heat something, and then what? Nope, too hard. Really the only food I feel confident about being able to pull together and consume is some sort of thing I can put into a bowl and mindlessly dip chips into.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Take You Out
The Casual Sex Project, illegal sex toys, talking about masturbation, why we kiss and more.
It’s Sunday Funday’s First Gay Pride — And Then, A Bear in a Hammock
President Obama is puttin’ his rainbow mardi gras beads on, Rachel Jeantel has a diploma (bitches!), and also: A BEAR IN A HAMMOCK. IMPORTANT.
On Making Mistakes and Futzing About
In which I relearn a lesson about technology I had forgotten.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Mixed Roots
On being a queer mixed-race woman.
Things I Read That I Love #129: The Bird Can’t Be Here, The Bird Lives In Wichita
Topics include Maya Angelou, Angelina Jolie, writing for “Mad Men,” Chirlane McCray, prison labor, Valerie Solanas and moar!
The Comment Awards Are So Happy To See You
An A-Camp hangover, rum cake and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual Single.
Going Beyond Going Down: Why Diverse Queer Sex On TV Matters
“And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally. I have seen her ass now twice. My problem isn’t her being ass naked. She has straight sex and is naked, but this other character has gay sex and both of them — bras on, underwear on.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Your Five-Step Guide to Telling Me Everything
HAY, GIRL OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED HUMANS! It’s Friday, which means it’s time for you to both make a desire map and share your entire life history with me in this open thread. Get in here!
Laverne Cox is Amazing on the Cover of Time, Time’s Story Inside Not So Much
Transgender activist and Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox became the first ever openly transgender person to grace the cover of Time Magazine. However, the cover story wasn’t as perfect as the cover itself.
Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games
Like playing video games? How about the queer, genderqueer and trans people who make them? Here’s how your queer worldview is carving out more real estate in the world of gaming.