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.”
Brittani’s Team Pick: I want you to know how to flirt with your boss and get fired at the same time.
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.
Dharun Ravi wants all charges against him dismissed — and the papers filed in his defense offer new insights into what happened to Tyler Clementi.
“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.”
“Unplugging my Ethernet cable felt like turning off a life-support system.”
“We don’t discriminate, we just don’t believe in homosexuality.”
Let’s break it down by uncomfortably accurate fashion stereotype. High school students listen up — this is relevant to your interests.
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!
Domestic workers deserve rights too!
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!
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.”
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.
Sometimes we are reminded we live in a heteronormative world in the unlikeliest of places.
In which Emily licks her in the front and pokes her in the rear. Well, not exactly. I just wanted to say that.
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.”
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.
Two white teenagers in Mississippi beat a black man, then drove over him in a pickup truck.
Emily’s Team Pick: There were some awesome things, there were some not-so-awesome things (but actually still kind of awesome).
We need new music. Tell us what’s been good to your ears.