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The Comment Awards Are Legs Out and Faces Painted for Pride

“Please do the sunscreen first, THEN the face paint, or you may end up with tan lines that say BI BI BI on your face! Just for instance!”

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Movie Reviews

“Tahara” Is a Queer Teen Comedy with Death and Depth

This is exactly what I want from contemporary low-budget queer filmmaking.

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AF+

Member2Member Advice: Pod Swap

Members, come share your podcast and Youtube recommendations with each other!

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First Person

“Nevada” and the Multiverse of Sadness

This is how it feels to come to art too late. It’s no longer an experience of immediate connection, but one of processing, of rewriting.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Rebel Wilson Has a Girlfriend, Her Very Own “Disney Princess”

Happy Pride!

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First Person LGBT Pride

I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer

In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose.

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Queer Pregnancy

How To Survive a Miscarriage by Marathoning 168 Episodes of “Survivor”

One thing you have in common with every contestant on the classic CBS reality television competition program Survivor is that you are not pregnant.

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Music

070 Shake Is Free In “You Can’t Kill Me”

If I could describe 070 Shake’s sophomore album in one word, it’d be freedom. She embraces the infinite.

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LGBT Pride Playlists

Playlist: Summer Songs To Dance to During Pride When You Have an Unbearable Crush

“Girls Make Me Wanna Die,” a new single by The Aces, dropped today. So we made a playlist all about queer crushes.

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LGBT Book Reviews LGBT Pride

In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”

Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.

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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Ariana DeBose Is Crushing on Evan Rachel Wood in Westworld’s NYC-ish New Season

The Motherland: Fort Salem season three trailer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is adding a non-binary character, Ms. Marvel is finally on Disney+, and more!

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AF+

Interview With My Girlfriend: Amanda

“I never really wanted to move in there and be like, “Hey son,” you know? That’s my stepdad voice.”

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Truly One of My Favorite Kinds of Celeb Posts Are Just Like “It’s Pride!”

Plus, Lesbian Jesus taking over Royal Albert Hall for Pride?? That is the shit I do like to see!

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: How Many of “The 100 Most Influential Queer Books of All-Time” Have You Read?

Elvira found “freedom” in coming out, the queer history of Lil Kim, and somehow even more American Girl Doll Pride discourse that no one saw coming.

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TV Show Recaps

“Gentleman Jack” Is Not Some Kind of Husband! (…Or Is She?)

Anne tells her wife to be “very good” and Adney is happy to oblige. Also: Business hijinks, woodland trysts, Bible bastards, and a looming Scottish showdown.

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Meet-Ups / Events Television

Come To Our A+ “Gentleman Jack” Season Finale Virtual Watch-Along!

What if we listened to jaunty music…together?

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TV News & Trailers

The League Of Their Own Reboot Trailer Is The Most Arousing Thing We’ve Ever Seen

How are we coping? WE ARE NOT WELL!!!

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Relationships

You Need Help: Is ‘Lesbian Bed Death’ Really So Bad?

It’s easy to get the impression that everybody should be wanting to have lots of sex, all the time. But sex is not inherently superior to any other way you and your partner might spend time together. You and your partner are the only ones who get to decide how sex fits in to your life together, and which activities and intimacies are most meaningful to you both.