‘My Gay Guy Friend Is Rude and Blames It on Gay vs. Lesbian Culture’
“I’ve started hanging out with him less because he’s just annoying at times.”
A Love Letter to the Women of SNL, All of Whom Have Been Extremely Hot
Let’s hop in my time machine and discuss what makes the women of SNL so hot — without once discussing their looks.
TIFF 2024: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Is the Most Unique Cis Nonsense You’ll Ever See
There are many bad movies made by cis writers and directors about trans women. But you’ve never seen a bad movie about a trans woman like Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.
TIFF 2024: ‘Really Happy Someday’ Is a Personal Film About the Exciting Challenges of Transition
There’s a pressure on trans people and trans storytellers to frame transition as a wholly positive experience. Any negativity is supposed to be external.
Sasheer Zamata Realizes She’s As Gay as the Characters She’s Played
Sasheer Zamata comes out as a “late-in-life lesbian,” ‘One Day at a Time’ cast will reunite for table reads, Melissa Ethridge did a Chappell Roan mashup, and more!
33 Action Villains, Ranked by Lesbianism
Gays! We love our villains!
Mini Crossword Needs a New Skincare Regimen
Maybe something between “splashing water on my face” and “buying forty serums”
TIFF 2024: ‘On Swift Horses’ Is Worthy of Its Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones Gay Sex Scenes
On Swift Horses is an unconventional queer love story. The person Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) first meets is not a lover, it’s not even a woman — it’s her soon-to-be brother-in-law Julius (Jacob Elordi).
TIFF 2024: ‘The Room Next Door’ Is Almodóvar’s Tribute to Life Through Death
If Pain and Glory was a reckoning with self and Parallel Mothers a reckoning with Spain, The Room Next Door is a reckoning with the entire world.
Quiz: Which Pizza Topping Best Represents Your Topping Style?
I pitched this quiz mostly as a joke and my coworkers were like “no, do that.”
Reine #64: Show Me How You Do That Trick
For those familiar with the art of the “boob scoop.”
TIFF 2024: In ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ the Men Have Never Mattered
Through the lens of Durga Chew-Bose’s phenomenal new adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse, the central relationship — romance even — is between Cécile and her father’s old friend Anne.
AF+ Crossword Is Making Bad Decisions
But who among us has not been there?!
TIFF 2024: ‘Went Up the Hill’ Is a Queer Ghost Story With Serious Mommy Issues
This film approaches a common narrative in a way we’ve never seen before — and not just because there’s a ghost.
Top 10 Things We Hope To See in the New ‘Wynonna Earp’ Special
Wynonna Earp is coming back with a ‘Vengeance’ next Friday the 13th!
Why Can’t I Share a King Bed With My Ex?
It’s truly platonic, but your new girlfriend has some thoughts! Also, we share ideas for psychosexual power plays, just casually.
A New Biography Transforms Our Understanding of Audre Lorde and the Genre Itself
“Biographies normativize people,” Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells me. “It’s like: this is a person, they were born, they died, their life is linear, they’re only one person. My queer approach doesn’t necessarily agree with any of those things. Does our life begin when we’re born? Does it end after we die? Are we ever one person? Those are questions of queer critique that I live inside of.”
Mini Crossword Has a Book Recommendation
Particularly if you are into romance and/or ice hockey.
The Top Lesbian Moments on ‘I Kissed a Girl’
I can’t believe we’ve already come to the finale of the UK’s first all-girl reality dating show, I Kissed a Girl, or, as I like to think of it, a battle of attrition between a weary group of TV producers and the lesbian urge to merge.
Doechii’s Sweaty, Swampy ‘Alligator Bites’ Is Florida as F*ck
The Swamp Princess isn’t done with herself or with us yet.