12 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With
A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.
A+ Crossword Is Going Back to Windows 95
What do you call someone who witnesses a robbery at the Apple store?
Boobs on Your Tube: Lucy and Kate, Together Again on “NCIS: Hawai’i”
Plus updates on How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, grown-ish, Truth Be Told, Station 19, and A Million Little Things.
A+ Roundtable: The Team Secretly Told Each Other Which 3 Characters Describe Them
“Christina is, energetically, equal parts over-the-top gay man and elder straight woman.”
Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood
After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.
“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors
This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.
The Comment Awards Are All Lit Up Inside
“I came for the lights and left wanting to know more about your Disney villain mom!”
Moon Lesbian Flag, Explained
There is a Pride flag called the Moon Lesbian Flag, meant as a contrast to the Sun Lesbian Flag, which is different entirely from the standard Lesbian Pride Flag. Let’s investigayte.
Now Is the Perfect Time for Mishloach Manot
This tradition, which literally translates to “sending of portions,” involves creating care packages of food and drink to send to loved ones.
Mini Crosswords Is Lighting Incense
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Also.Also.Also: On Aubrey Plaza’s Lasting Reign and the Legacy of “Moody, Deadpan Latinas”
Also, ICYMI, a round up of the highs and lows in this week’s rollercoaster LGBTQ state bills, a Black feminist on what monogamy misses about patriarchy and capitalism, and more!
Behind the Scenes of the “Yellowjackets” Set — Plus, New Photos From Season 2!
The set is full of (fake) blood.
Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
Elliot Page Brings Bi Vibes and Throuple Times to Gucci’s Guilty Campaign
Elliot Page, A$AP Rocky, and Julia Garner are a fresh-smelling throuple in Gucci’s new ad campaign for “love in all its forms.”
A Transmasc’s Guide to Developing a Healthier Masculine Sexuality
There are some lessons we don’t have to learn the hard way when people have already done the work to teach us.
Get Pumped: Our 14th Birthday A+ Ask-Us-Anything is on March 7th!
An annual, chaotic tradition.
Blush and Bashful: What It’s Like To Be Queer and Engaged
If you’re wondering what some queer people who aren’t me are thinking about when it comes to getting engaged and wedding planning (or not wedding planning), this installment of Blush and Bashful is for you.
Guessing Game: Buzzworthy Royalty
Arguably, the greatest soccer team of 1996. 🐝
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Spills Her Literal Lesbian Guts in “Love Lies Bleeding”
Lizzo’s metal era, Gotham Knights’ blue-haired bisexual, NO TÁR SHORT FILM FOR YOU, and more!
March 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream
Friends it is finally time for Yellowjackets Season Two! Also a queer British comedy horror show set on a cruise ship, the Nan Goldin documentary, 1930s lesbian trysts in “Perry Mason,” a Mae Martin stand-up special and more!