Paige throws Emily a surprise birthday party but Emily shows up completely pissed off. This is not going to end well.

Sometimes a prairie homo has nothing to write, so she writes about it.

This play kicks the living crap out of you while asking you to acknowledge the softest, sweetest, most vulnerable human parts of this world, and then it kicks you some more. I loved it.

Topics include Gia Carnagi, Jenna Lyons, Dodd-Frank, solitary confinement, day care, Q*bert, Khadijah Williams, Prom 1995, Shutterbabe and more!

I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.

“five years from now when i’m living in a tree writing tracts about how monsanto is part of the illuminati cabal on recycled seventh-generation paper bags, you can pinpoint this as the moment it started.”

A queer trans* folk singer from Chicago and maybe now also the butchest femme you know.

This week on Pretty Little Liars, Emily meets an olympic swimmer and Spencer reenacts the entire plot line of Girl, Interrupted.

Artist Paul Harfleet has spent the past seven years responding to experiences of homophobic harassment with small gestures of quiet resistance, one planted pansy at a time.

This week on Bomb Girls, the sunshine is gone and nothing will ever be okay again.

“All I really wanted to do was shake the Tegan and Sara’s hands. That’d be enough. Unfortunately, it’d also only take 10 seconds. I’d have at least 80 seconds left to fill.”

This week on NSFW Sunday: all vaginas are awesome, what it’s like to act in a lesbian sex scene, interviews and more.

Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.

“I paid a dude to knock me unconscious, peel back my face, and cut out chunks of my skull and jaw.”

How activists in Louisiana use everything from direct action to meetings with senators to try to pass laws that would protect queer and trans* students from bullying, queer and trans* employees from discrimination, and more. This is how your legal progress sausage is made.

This week on Pretty Little Liars we build up tension and Spencer walks around in colonial nightie

This week on Pretty Little Liar Emily spends all together too much time trying to defend men and Hanna sinks a car in a lake while wearing a super lesbian outfit.

“It’s on my twenty-fourth birthday that I realize something is wrong. I wake up crying and I don’t stop.”

This post includes an adorable photo of Dhati as a small child, along with some words of wisdom about coming out, not coming out, and crushing on Korean pop stars.

BatalaNYC is all-women AfroBrazilian Samba Reggae drumming band that’s opened for the Stones. Incredibly cool.