Star Wars has managed to become an inflection point for culture war grifters who claim that it’s become a radically queer Marxist text. I f*cking wish.

“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”

Compared to my parents’ volatile relationship, their divorce, and the financial instability that came after it, being scared of ghosts seemed like a waste of time.

This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.

We’ve got Kate Moennig and Abbi Jacobson in a new Liz Feldman comedy, specials from Ilana Glazer and Fortune Feimster, and more!

Bastard Out of Carolina was the book that made me want to become a writer.

“When she locked Vi in that cell, I was truly afraid of what might come next. I did not anticipate it being Caitlyn.”

At the time, I didn’t know that I was experiencing a contentious procedure that would leave me physically scarred and emotionally wounded. I did it because I was told I should. Decades later, I learned about assent in a postgraduate research course.

“I came out as a trans woman in Texas during the age of Trump. For me, there was no stealth coming out. I’m a big, ugly old broad and there’s no hiding it. Coming out may not have been a smart thing to do, but for me to stay alive, it was the only thing for me to do.”

Rarely does sadness sound this big, instrumentally, on an album with the kind of indie-pop, alt-country, folk-rock twists this one has, and even more rarely do we get an album so clear in its purpose.

Super Size Me really fucked me up as a kid. I am a fat, bummed out person who was a fat, bummed out child, and my mother was worried.

From Ayo Edebiri to Margaret Cho, read all 75+ ballots that decided Autostraddle’s list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time.

Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.

We open on Laura, trying to sleep after her long day of Doing Journalism™ and uncovering her girlfriend’s federal crime.

This week on NSFW Sunday: debate over porn, BDSM, a gallery of studs from V Magazine, and the end of monogamy.

Your girlfriend just straight up voted for Trump, so now what?? Also, a reader feels conflicted about Trump voters throwing her baby shower.

“no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society”

A look at the history of queer Halloween celebrations and more LGBTQ+ culture and news.

The queer reveal is presented as a twist, and while I’m sure it surprised straight viewers, sleuthy queers will probably pick up on it.

The horror series takes on Poe’s “The Black Cat.”