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Carmen’s Team Pick: Emotionally Volatile Bear

or, something that might be your life story.

First Person

Listling Without Commentary: Rejected Liveblog Topics From My Personal Life

“A conversation I had in line at the post office about sex toys, which were in the opened-by-customs package I was picking up, and the reaction of the nice lady who handed it/them to me.”

Comedy

Laura’s Team Pick: Green Porno

“A Female! Ready to mate! Sex!”

First Person Identity

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About My Sexual Orientation And Were(n’t) Afraid To Ask

The eyes are all asking are you in, or are you out?

Book Features

Carolyn’s Team Pick: Responses to Esquire’s List of “75 Books Every Man Should Read”

“Do not read books by women to murder your inner sexist pig. Do it because Edith Wharton can f*cking write. It’s that simple.”

Politics + Activism

Log Cabin Republicans and Other Gays Ditching Obama, Voting Republican

Where are all of these gay people voting for Republicans? And who exactly do they plan on putting into the Oval Office?

TV News & Trailers

Real L Word Returns for Season 2 With Extra Sexy Lesbian Sex

This post is NSFW and a giant SPOILER ALERT, and also it’s about Season Two of “The Real L Word,” which is about two girls, one gay and a pizza place. Something like that.

Theater

Michele’s Team Pick: Mermaids/Novel Love

NYC playwright Kate Foster debuts short plays about writers, mermaids and gays and you should totally go!

Dating

How to Date… Again

I emerged from the winter of my dating discontent with a few good rules, which are probably more like guidelines since I’m genetically incapable of following rules. So here they are…in all their fucked up glory. My four new rules for dating.

Society + Culture

Writers Gone Wild: Lambda Literary Awards Spark Debate on the Future of Gay Books

The winners of the 23rd annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in a ceremony at the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York. And now to read all of them.

Visual Art

Lindsay Lohan Becomes an “Art Star” in 90 Seconds

“She’s a combination of the fantastic and the real, which is what makes her so magnetic. She can also bring forward an existential presence that speaks to the isolated self.”