A fat bride with brown hair curled at the edges around her shoulders is in a white gown and looking at herself in the mirror of a dressing room. She is smiling and happy.

Lesbian Weddings

Blush and Bashful: How One Fat Femme Bought Her Dream Wedding Dress

The reason I wanted to write about this experience is explicitly to say to other fat brides that buying a dress does not have to be a negative experience.

Three album covers (The National's High Violet, Erkyah Badu's New Amerikyah, and Hanna) are placed in front of a solid royal purple background

First Person Music

Three Songs for Three Heartbreaks

I was in love, then I wasn’t. One night, after a big fight. I got on my bike to make the short trek home and a song came to me.

The contestants of Love Trip: Paris posing smiling

TV Reviews

“Love Trip: Paris” Dares to Send Three Queers to Gay Paree To French Kiss Their Single Life Goodbye

“Love Trip: Paris” could be just another heterosexual reality TV dating experiment or another “Americans in Paris” show, but with its cast of four that contains a genderqueer lesbian, a sexually fluid mental health podcaster and a trans bisexual model/actress, it manages to transcend its basic roots to deliver a delightfully queer romp.

Black person holding baby's breath. Background is babys breath resting on wood

Culture

What Embracing My Soft Life Era Really Means

Living a soft life doesn’t mean I’ll live one free from strife or pain, rather I’m living a life that invites those emotions in.

Cheryl Blossom from Riverdale, cheering / Elliot Page in a tux / Santana Lopez from Glee in a cheerleader uniform

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Elliot Page’s Queer Cheerleading Movie Is Really Happening!

Rebel Wilson is creating a queer dating app called, er, Fluid? A Hogwarts Legacy alternative for trans witches and their supporters. And more!

M. Crane is between two images of their book cover. The book cover is a simple plane of blue with a rippling human shadow on the cover and the title text I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF layered on top. M. Crane is smiling. They have long brown hair, tan skin, and are wearing a colorful button up shirt.

Literature

A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane!

A photo of Dylan Meyer and Kristen Stewart, in seemingly matching Black and White outfits and messy blonde hair, standing on a sunny balcony. The photo is repeated twice, in a collage, in front of a pink background.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter:Yes, Dylan Meyer’s Valentine’s Day Post for Kristen Stewart Is Very Sweet

Also, Kehlani making a Kim Possible reference? Hell yes.

The cover of Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni features two women having a picnic with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge

LGBT Book Reviews

“Sorry, Bro” Is an Ideal Bisexual Romance Novel To Read This Month

If you find yourself needing a bit of sweetness and charm in these early, dreary months of the year, Sorry, Bro is a perfect pick me up.

Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Hosting Game Night

What’s a vampire’s favorite ship?

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Goodbye to Beloved Digital Magazine Catapult, Being Weird and Indie on the Internet Keeps Getting Harder

Also, exploring the history of trans witches. And Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina’s love story is the focus of a new Fenty ad.

A collage of torn paper in neutral tones of grey, beige, brown, and black. There are creases, tears, warps and paste layers like posters worn down on a brick wall. Some parts of the papers are aging brown and peeling out of the canvas. There are spray paint gestures in orange and pink as well. On top of the paper detritus is a ruby red ceramic tile that has been shattered into shards and then reconstructed into a heart shape. Some ceramic shards are also scattered around the canvas. Laid diagonal in the bottom right corner is a clear plastic ballpoint pen with a black plastic cap.

First Person

I Don’t Want To Write Beautiful Things

I am in the business of writing honestly, especially about the things that hurt — heartbreak, disappointment, shame, poverty.

Two white wooden chairs sit on a deck that's attached to a white house on the left. The chairs face pink and orange sunset and a large body of water.

Relationships

Heart Whisperer: How I Found My Way to a Love That’s Lasted 45 Years

In the autumn of 1977, I met the partner of my dreams, and we’ve been sailing through life together ever since.

Photo 1: Kristen kisses Kayla with her hand on her throat. Photo 2: Kayla kisses Kristen's cheek in front of the castle at Disney World. Photo 3: Kristen and Kayla make out in an elevator

AF+

Interview With My Fiancé: Kristen

In which we talk for a weirdly long time about who does laundry but also Yellowjackets, why a punk cover of “Mambo Italiano” is “our song,” and our sex drives.

two women looking at one another not too happily. one is leaning against a brick wall.

Relationships

You Need Help: My Partner Keeps Saying We’re Going to Break Up!

The fact that you feel affected by what your partner tells you, even when they’re not their best self, is not inappropriate or bad. It’s human.

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey, featuring a Black girl in an open field holding a plate in outstretched arms

LGBT Book Reviews

“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature

I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.

A kaleidoscope esque mirrored image of Sadie and Nico in N 95 masks and backwards hats, with wide eyes standing on ladders beneath a ceiling full of holes exposing the lathe behind the plaster. the vibe is chaotic.

House & Garden Relationships

Homo Reno: 13 Tips for Keeping Your 5 Year Queer Relationship Intact While Renovating the House You Live In

Sometimes you are going to have to undertake a project during which it will be inevitable that you will scream at each other. My advice is to just kind of pretend it didn’t happen.

Puzzles

Word Search: Queen Latifah’s Reign

A career retrospective, but make it a word search.

A woman wades in shallow water with a pink and blue sky above her on an album cover that also says: Black Belt Eagle Scout, The Land The Water The Sky on it

Music

Queer Indigenous Musician Black Belt Eagle Scout Talks “The Land, The Water, The Sky”

If you’ve never listened to Black Belt Eagle Scout before, then 1. you should, and 2. you should be prepared for the sort of rapturous experience of listening to each song.