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First Person

For All The Girls I Loved Before I Knew I Could

Kelly cut off all her hair and started dating Katie. I started chasing around after a guy who looked like Ellen DeGeneres and trying to make sense of the mess in my brain.

Adrian April 23, 2014 115 Comments
Dating

Five Ways to Escape Your Terrible Date

Should I just go to the bathroom and never come out? Should I fake a heart attack? Tell them I got my period and it’s just a beautiful MESS that I need to stop and worship?

gabby April 23, 2014 56 Comments
Travel

Queer Girl City Guide: Charleston, South Carolina

Get to know the Lowcountry!

Paige April 23, 2014 18 Comments
Pets & Animals

Excuse Me But These Cats Have Serious Business To Attend To

They are available for endorsements on LinkedIn.

A.E. Osworth April 23, 2014 20 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Faking It” Episode 101 Recap: Let’s Be Lesbians

In the first episode of “Faking It,” two girls are mistaken for a lesbian couple and they sort of just run with it.

Riese April 23, 2014 65 Comments
Gender

What is Agender? Five Things You Should Know

This will be familiar territory for many of you (and that’s great!), but for anyone who isn’t as well-versed, let the learning begin!

A. Stiffler April 23, 2014 41 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Queer People Are Organizing in Tech and Other Stories We Missed This Week

We need more queer people in hip-hop and fewer queer people in prison.

Leo April 23, 2014 1 Comment
Playlists

Playlist: OMG A-Camp Is In Four Weeks

Camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp EVERYBODY

Intern Grace April 22, 2014 10 Comments
Politics + Activism

Do Your Damn Part: Subscribe To Your Local Newspaper

“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”

A.E. Osworth April 22, 2014 30 Comments
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Culinary Classics of Crypto-Lesbian Fiction: Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried green tomatoes are easy and delicious and will impress basically everyone in your life.

Varina April 22, 2014 23 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Orphan Black Episode 201 Recap: Nature Under Constraint and Vexed

“Dr. Leekie wants Cosima working for them, and Delphine assures him she’s on it. He tells her to be careful playing for the other team, which is a pretty solid gay/double agent joke.”

Chelsea April 22, 2014 37 Comments
First Person

Lessons Learned From Menstruation Pop Quizzes While Being Intersex

“That being said, I’d like to live in a world someday where people don’t automatically assume my body looks and functions a certain way, that makes room for people like me and my experiences.”

Claudia April 22, 2014 35 Comments
Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Celebrating the Eisner-Nominated Women of 2014

The nominees for the Eisner Awards were recently announced, recognizing the best in the comic book industry. Here are all the women who were nominated.

Mey April 22, 2014 4 Comments
Book Features

National Poetry Month: YaliniDream Opens Spaces and Hearts

I ended up taking advantage of the fact that I was on the margins. I used the power of invisibility to crack open spaces at the edges. The power of performance is impermanence — nobody could catch it and say “here’s proof of what she is saying or doing.”

Adrian April 21, 2014 3 Comments
Parenting & Family

OPEN THREAD: Keeping It Queer in the Suburbs

I don’t want to let go my connection to the vibrant, inspiring queer culture that’s not immediately accessible to me in my strip-malls-and-big-box-stores environment. How do you keep it queer in your day-to-day life in the suburbs?

VillageQ April 21, 2014 54 Comments
TV Reviews

MTV’s “Faking It” Is Pretty Good, For Real

Turns out those irritating trailers were just Trojan Horses delivering a cute show with a queer female lead to all of us here on The Isle of Lesbos.

Riese April 21, 2014 50 Comments
Geekery

Star Trek N00b, Episode 20: Tomorrow is Yesterday (And We’re No Longer N00bs!)

The very last Star Trek N00b recap!

Loraine April 21, 2014 8 Comments
Food Lists

22 Ways To Eat Soba Noodles Forever

For the week ahead: a whole bunch of ways to eat soba noodles, because soba noodles are delicious.

Ryan Yates April 21, 2014 12 Comments
LGBT History

More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls

What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.

Cara April 21, 2014 8 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Spooning Switch

How to fingerblast, air sex, how to start using sex toys, bathroom hook-ups and more.

Ryan Yates April 20, 2014 13 Comments
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