Stranger, Less Heterosexual Things: Barb, We Hope
Shannon Purser feels ya, Yorkie.
Shannon Purser feels ya, Yorkie.
“Four-and-a-half minutes was all it took to throw me back into this huge river of feeling, and it was exhilarating and rewarding and made me feel light and warm in a place that had been cold and damp for a long time.”
A rundown of all the things you can celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buffy by buying.
Buffy is a queer rite of passage. Everybody’s got a Buffy story. These are some of ours.
We talked to One Day at a Time writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo, about gay representation on TV, how Autostraddle came to be in the script, their queer TV roots, what kind of LGBT stories are missing from TV and what’s in store for Elena in a potential next season.
“Some stray comments and seemingly-satirical articles suggest that the show championed witchcraft, which, in the 1990s, was not the compliment that it is today.”
Just wondering, no reason.
Christmas Day sees the last episodes of the Bake Off as we know it; let’s see it off into the dark night together.
“I’d actually use this, maybe even daily, but I’d absolutely hate knowing it existed somewhere in my kitchen. It’d be like the broom in the closet, but for your cabinets. Like you need it, but it’s always in the way and there’s really no way to conceal it.”
Before ‘Women Who Love Women Who Love Recycling,’ there was ‘Dirty Dancing In Danskos.’
I’m hopeful, though, that TV in particular has the potential to introduce richer disabled people with stronger context and more to say than “look how sad my life is.”
“Degrassi Lesbian Porn!”
Look.
“Faking It” seems to really be going for the cold when it comes to representing every letter in the LGBTQIA umbrella at least a little bit — here are 17 other shows who’ve presented a spectrum of identities.
Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.
“Jessica Williams would be the type of friend that would tell me to my face that my shirt is open and everyone can see my bra as plainly and swiftly as telling someone her drink order.”
The dead lesbian TV characters trope is even worse than you think.
“Expound the value of systematic deception, use high-sounding slogans and phrases and advocate lavish promises [or roses] to the masses even though they cannot be kept.”
46. Lesbian kisses another lesbian, is happy, stays alive.
I’s time to celebrate The Original Fandom and the glorious Monica/Scully fan fiction it brought into our lives.