How Do You Peel A Banana?
No really, how do you?
We Are Become Pals!
Intern Grace’s Team Pick: How do you feel about a story/comic combination about cute girls who are friends and also total weirdos? I feel good about it.
I Spoke to 2,500 Sluts on Saturday: Why We Need to Start Talking About Consent, Sex Ed, etc.
Slutwalk DC: “I was standing right in front of the Washington Monument. My name tag said “Carmen (Fucking) Rios,” and I had cut my shirt into a crop top tank top, and I was still wearing my aviators. Then I gave a speech and I want to share it with you.”
How Not to Flirt with Your Boss
Brittani’s Team Pick: I want you to know how to flirt with your boss and get fired at the same time.
We Should Talk to Each Other Poolside This Sunday Funday
Let’s cuddle and enjoy lesbian books, community building on behalf of gays everywhere, Jane Lynch in a suit, Rose McGowan’s lesbian posse, and a two-piece swimsuit.
The Last Days of Gay Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi: New Questions, Some Answers
Dharun Ravi wants all charges against him dismissed — and the papers filed in his defense offer new insights into what happened to Tyler Clementi.
The Ethics of Lust: Your Dildo Might be Illegal
“With all these dildos piled high around me, I think it’s a good time to discuss the laws surrounding the purchasing of sex toys.”
Internet Withdrawal Inspires Panic, Insanity, Despair and Other Hyperbolic Feelings
“Unplugging my Ethernet cable felt like turning off a life-support system.”
Coptic Church Defends Students’ Rights to be Homophobic
“We don’t discriminate, we just don’t believe in homosexuality.”
Pretty Little Liars Fashioncap 209: Uncomfortably Accurate Gay High School Poker Attire
Let’s break it down by uncomfortably accurate fashion stereotype. High school students listen up — this is relevant to your interests.
The Playboy Club: 4 Things Lesbians Need to Know About NBC’s New Show
NBC’s “The Playboy Club” starring Amber Heard is allegedly totally degrading to women but also has a lot of homosexy stuff going on, like The Lesbian Activist Bunny!
The Real Help
Domestic workers deserve rights too!
Also. Also. Also: Anti-Gay GOP Debate Rhetoric & Retro Homophobia to Tickle Your Funnybone
So many things, like Staceyann Chin and New Balance and an old documentary and an article from yesterday about how the teevee made you gay and all the GOP debate anti-gay stuff in 2mins and really just so much. Just read it!
Hey! Did You See That Comment? Friday!
In a desperate bid to craft a clever excerpt, I turned to my rhyming dictionary. Unfortunately, it’s a useless rhyming dictionary as Friday doesn’t actually rhyme with “Heidi.”
Movie Night: E.T.
Cocktails, pizza, Reese’s Pieces and a Steven Spielberg classic! We understand you on a deep, personal, almost telepathic level. We’ll be right here.
In the Pool With Cougar, Scaring the Straight People, Getting The Homophobia
Sometimes we are reminded we live in a heteronormative world in the unlikeliest of places.
Pretty Little Liars 209 Recap: Picture This Poker Face
In which Emily licks her in the front and pokes her in the rear. Well, not exactly. I just wanted to say that.
The Bravest Woman in Seattle In Her Own Words
Rachel’s Team Pick: “What I really want, I now realize, is peace. And I know now, after this trial, that justice does not bring peace. It only brings justice.”
Adam Lambert is Behind the Music & Naya Rivera is in Front of the Camera
Wanna hear Adam’s Burning Man story again? Plus, Jill Bennett likes labels, Gaga works the drag on her “You & I” cover, VMAs will include a social activism category this year, the 30 page Real Word contract is semi-fascinating, and Naya Rivera goes glam.
Hate Crime Killing On Video: This Still Happens
Two white teenagers in Mississippi beat a black man, then drove over him in a pickup truck.