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Read A F*cking Book: “Go Deep” by Leigh Matthews
The latest installment in the All Out Vancouver series brings back all our favorite characters — and some heavy themes.
Menu For My Date With Lamia: Five Hearty Homemade Soups
She looked me up and down and told me I had magnificent hair. So I told her she had a beautiful tail. She told me she liked my scar. I told her I liked her, and would she like to have dinner with me sometime? “Yesss,” she replied. The following evening she came to my apartment and I fed her five different homemade soups.
This is Beyoncé/Nicki Minaj Femslash
“And how is it that no one texted me that Nicki Minaj was in my hotel wearing denim cutoffs, 7″ black Louboutins, and a cutoff tank with my face on it? I’mma fire everyone on my security team.”
10 Hilarious And Historical Sex Scenes From Lesbian Pulp Fiction
“Wildly, the girls locked to each other. Their bodies were gleaming now with sweat. Lip to lip, breast to breast, thigh to slippery thigh, they heaved and gyrated, ecstasy rising like a lava wave.”
Intense Lesbian Fanfiction, Part Three: That Escalated Quickly
“Blaze squinted in the mirror and pushed her hair left, then right, then left, then right, then left, then right, then righter, then really left, then up a little, then all the way down […]”
Intense Lesbian Fanfiction Part Two: Courtney’s In a Coma
“Of course I’ve heard of Smith! Are you fucking kidding me? Every lesbian has heard of Smith. It’s fucking Lesbian Hogwarts. God. They’re all there, with their hair always on point, studying sociology, and the leaves are yellow and filtering sunlight through them because it’s always autumn there because autumn is beautiful and the whole continent has conspired to make that place beautiful and lovely and gay. Gay as fuck.”
Intense Lesbian Fanfiction, Part One: Blaze Is Here
“The night was deep and dark over Ellen DeGeneres’ Burbank mansion. Inside her mahogany themed living room, Ellen sat in a velvet high back chair and quietly sipped whisky out of a crystal glass.”
The Completely Ultimate Best Moments (So Far) of Walking Dead’s New Queer Couple
For the second week in a row, The Walking Dead has delivered us some queer lady goodness. Let’s relive those moments now.
The Walking Dead Brings Another Queer Chick Named Tara To TV, We Rejoice
Let’s all hope and pray that this Tara has better luck than her predecessors.
Read A F*cking Book: Canary
Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.
Study Claims Literature Becoming Less Emotional, But Maybe It’s Actually Just Less “Moody”
Making sense of a new study that says we don’t like our books to have “mood words” anymore, except for scary ones.
Swapping Spit: The Sister Spit Anthology & A Few Words with Michelle Tea
“This book is a queer anthem. It flashes bright neon lights and blows out plumes of dirty glitter.”
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
Before “The L Word,” There Was Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Unfortunate representation of queer communities may piss us off but it doesn’t mean it won’t help in some wacked out way. Just look at lesbian pulp fiction novels.
Read A F*cking Book: “Beyond Binary” Is Genderqueering Speculative Fiction
This book is the most awesome book I have read in a really long time and you should read it too. Immediately.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday is “Hogtied”
Bondage Month presents some flash-fiction erotica by Sinclair Sexsmith.