Six contributors to Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5 tell us about how they think about erotica as queer writers. The book came out on Dec 8, so can get your personal and gift copies in time for the holidays.

Stop what you’re doing right now and watch Alice Júnior on Netflix.

First I became a cloud-woman. Min had always liked watching them as a child, one of her only good memories from that period. I lifted up my skirts, let her lap up my water. Her mouth was covered in dew when I kissed her.

With a total of five lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans Black women characters in the main cast, Lena Waithe’s “The Chi” certainly made history this summer. But did making “The Chi” gayer turn it into a better show?

I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.

A young black queer girl goes to her first pride parade, tackles her fears of her own queerness rooted in acceptance, and becomes friends with other black queer people after the death of her parents.

The entire TV Team weighs in on the sex scenes and potential/actual relationships that warmed our hearts and thighs during Season One of “The L Word: Generation Q.”

When I watch these movies, I find myself writing fan fictions in my head: What details would I change, to make this piece of art truly for me, and for the community that I love? Maybe it’s simply that the sex workers on film would just be a lot more… regular.

As a child, I loved watching wrestling. As I got older, however, the sport began to change, and the storylines became isolating. Fortunately, both fans and other wrestlers alike have made it clear that wrestling is no longer a business where bigotry is going to be tolerated.

Somewhere at the back of my mind, I’d convinced myself that attempting to pull my slightly overweight and totally out of shape ass across the seven levels that made up the gigantic waterfall was an impossible dream…

A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass and a journal.

Our continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new lesbian life and new bisexual civilizations, and to boldly go where this franchise often vehemently refused to go before!

“Play to everyone’s culinary strengths, know your nemeses, and make sure all your guests are familiar with poison-free alternatives to food with poison in them.”

Critical Role helped me realized that D&D is about storytelling, and that there’s plenty of room for queer people in stories.

Whether your person prefers quality time, physical touch, words of affirmation, receiving gifts, or acts of service, we’ve got some gift ideas for them!

Plus updates on Coronation Street, Emmerdale, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless!

“I like to think I’ve put my talking-back skills to great use as an adult who enjoys proving points and getting the last word and being right.”

In the lead up to their performance at Go Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Nightlife Awards, New York Hip Hop duo Kin4Life speak with Audiostraddle’s newest music writer Glennisha about their love of nightlife, as well as their new record and the reasons you should go see their show.

“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”

In general, my bi friends understand the alienation, erasure and self-doubt that comes with being bisexual in a “can’t you just pick one” world. By seeing and believing each other’s negative experiences, we help each other reduce the harm of those things.