Your Best Halloween Costume Ever: Ridiculously Easy Ideas For Lazy, Broke or Busy Queers
Don’t spend more on a costume than you’d spend on a forty, and only wear what you’re willing to get stained.
Things I Read That I Love #47: If It Makes Me Happy
Topics include happiness, solitary confinement, Cosmopolitan magazine, Elliot Smith, public education reform, “the world of a professional naked girl” and so much more!
Totally True Tampon Tales!
Alex, Gabby and Riese share gripping accounts of their conversions to o.b.® tampons… with illustrations.
Damnit France, Why Can’t You Be More Like the Netherlands?
Debates, protests and ridiculous videos over same-sex marriage aren’t limited to this side of the Atlantic.
‘5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche’ is Theatre of the Absurd in New York City
It’s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. “No men. No meat. Just manners.”
Obama Endorses All The Same-Sex Marriage Things In Maine and Washington!
Obama has announced his support of Washington, Maryland and Maine’s marriage equality initiatives! Hopefully most voters will agree with him, because the polls sure are close!
Movie Review: ‘Jack & Diane’ is Weird, Gay and Kinda Good
Being young and in love makes you an idiot monster, and that’s what “Jack & Diane” is about.
Your Turn: Vote Early with President Obama
This afternoon, Barack Obama did indeed become the first sitting president to take advantage of early voting in person. The message behind these actions? You too can cast your vote. Right now.
Queer Girl Hairstory: Our Hair’s Not So Straight Either Part 3
Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.
Petitioning Website Will No Longer Be As Progressive As You Once Thought
Something is ch-ch-ch-ch-changing over at Change.org, but unlike the Bowie song, someone definitely wants to be a richer man.
The Style Manual: Fashion Council to the Rescue
The experts are here to share the tips of the trade.
Get Baked With A Tiny (Trick Or) Treat
A small thing you can make for your Halloweening experience. Let them eat teeny tiny cake!
Lana Wachowski, Trans* Director of ‘The Matrix’, Gives Touching Speech That Will Probably Make You Cry
“Here in the absence of words to defend myself, without examples, without models, I began to believe voices in my head — that I was a freak, that I am broken, that there is something wrong with me, that I will never be lovable.”
Also.Also.Also: A Million Here, A Million There for Gay Rights And Other Stories We Missed
Donation matching, gender swapping, fuck-giving, and another chance to hate on Mitt Romney. Again and again.
The Style Manual: Suits 201
To get the look, you need to know about sizing and fit. We’re talking buttons, lapels, jacket lengths and trouser drops! Sounds dirty but it isn’t.
This NSFW Video Of Teresa Reading Jeanette Winterson Is Relevant To Interests
“While we can’t see what’s going on beneath the table, their physical reactions reveal that there is definitely a vibrator involved.”
He’s Got The Whole World In His Binders: What Romney/Ryan Would Mean for Women Globally
The hypothetical future is looking dim.
DIY Hogwarts Owls for Halloween
So my girlfriend and I were invited to a very serious Harry Potter-themed Halloween/birthday party. While neither of us have a lot of enthusiasm for H.P. (I know, I know, I’m sorry!) we knew enough vague facts to brainstorm some ideas. Like, the fact that there are owls. So I set to work on figuring […]
One Sweater, Many Crafts: Easy Winter DIY from Recycled Sweaters
Repurposing an old sweater into a hat, a pair of mittens and a pair of fake boot socks is so easy and quick that I made myself a cup of tea before starting the entire project and it was still warm by the time I was done.
Log Cabin Republicans Endorse Mitt Romney Because Who Needs Love When You’ve Got Money
A gay person said this: “as [Romney’s] record as Governor of Massachusetts suggests, will not waste his precious time in office with legislative attacks on LGBT Americans.”