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Literature

Rainbow Reading: What Are You Reading This Pride Month?

Welcome back to Rainbow Reading, your biweekly roundup of LGBTQ+ lit news you can use.

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Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2022

We’re experiencing more grief and rage than our systems can metabolize. Venus, planet of pleasure, reminds us that connecting to joy is a sacred responsibility. It is how we process and transmute the toxins of despair.

Aunjanue Ellis walks the red carpet for Essence's Black Women in Hollywood. Her hair is braided into bantu knots and her red suit coat is custom bedazzled with the word "Queer" spelled in crystals. Underneath the red suit coat is also a red button down.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Aunjanue Ellis Confirmed Her Queerness, Today Is For Black Bisexual Oscar Nominees ONLY

A Black queer woman over 50, Oscar nominee, who’s proudly from the Bible Belt, confirming she’s bisexual? On June 1st? Babyyy — we throwing a whole damn Pride parade. Put her name in lights.

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Meet Gotham Knights’ Harper Row, Your New CW Bisexual

Also! I seriously cannot believe this Sara Ramirez Variety cover, Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her, Matthew Morrison Mr. Schue’s his way to getting fired from So You Think You Can Dance, and more!

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Movie Lists TV Lists

What’s New and Gay To Stream in June 2022

We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: We’re All Thinking It, Right? Tommy Dorfman Is Giving Princess Diana!!!

Plus, the casual gay Auntie swag of Queen Latifah playing pool with Gabrielle Union’s tiny daughter, Kaavia James.

Two Bratz dolls are in rainbow colored long fur coats while holding protest signs and are photoshopped in front of a pink background with gold and yellow sparkles. The dolls look millennial chic, despite being corporate pride.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: I Wanna Be Mad About Bratz Commodifying Pride, but That Coat

Welcome to Corporate Pride season! Also, Will’s sexuality on “Stranger Things,” you can escape summer’s heat if you’re rich, and your personality, as explained by your annoying household habits.

12 images of Autostraddle team members are collaged together. Kayla stands in a bathing suit on the beach, Riese poses with Carol and a friend on a hike, Drew eats ice cream sitting at the beach, Nicole climbs over a field of boulders, Ro deals with the wind on a roof, Viv poses by a giant rock Georgia O'Keefe sculpture, Darcy lounges in a pool among trees, Carmen smiles outdoors at a rainbow flag painted intersection, Tracy sits in the Philadelphia magic gardens, Anya poses in front of blooming trees, Abeni lies in a hammock outdoors, and Vanessa poses with Zucchini the dog outdoors by a stream

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 92: May 2022

“ANYWAY YEAH come get a scorpion!”

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TV Show Recaps

“Gentleman Jack” Is Not Keeping The Bed Warm For Some Man!

Anne Lister employs the ultimate lesbian tactic of wearing a low power ponytail so that men will cower before her. Ann Walker has had it up to here with her greedy family.

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Dating

Competitive Queerness Gives Me the Ick

This residual harm, this chip on the shoulder, this something to prove — they’re proving it to the wrong person. They’re gay-tekeeping.

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Relationships

You Need Help: Should My Relationship Really Be This Hard?

Moving through your relationship as carefully as you currently are is going to be unsustainable in the long-term. Your partner is enacting a sustained pattern of behavior that needs to stop.

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Beauty

Makeup for When Your Fingers Are the Only Tool You’ve Got

I’ve dumped my brushes and started using my perfect, gay hands to apply makeup. Here are some product recommendations and tips for going brush-less.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, a brown lesbian with brown hair and eyes, throughout her twenties

First Person

The Gayest Things I Did in My Twenties

I’m 23, and I’m not sure if I’m on a date (I’m not).

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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Says She’ll Make This Bisexual Movie or DIE TRYING!!!

Wee-oooh! Wee-ooh! Gays in Disney+’s Willow series! Official Bratz Pride dolls??? And Jodie Foster’s taking over True Detective.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, when she was 22-years-old. Her hair is dark and down, and she's wearing a black backpack and a teal sleeveless buttondown. There's pink glitter on the lower left and upper right corners of the image.

Playlists

Playlist: I’m Turning 30 Tomorrow — Here Are 20 Songs From My Twenties

Every gay person has told me your thirties rule, and I BELIEVE it!!!!!

TV Show Recaps

Luz and Amity Make Queer Kissing History on Disney’s “The Owl House”

Move over, Flynn Rider — there’s a new Prince Charming in town!

This feature image is made up of one image that is flipped and doubled on the other side, creating a mirror effect. The photo is of Analyssa and Courtney at Gay Asstrology. Analyssa is a a young latinx person with shoulder length brown hair, wearing shorts and a navy shirt with a jean jacket around her waist. She is leaning back against a bright and colorful background of rainbow streamers. Courtney is a white woman, and in front with short black hair, wearing all black with red lipstick, and giving double V for Victory signs with her fingers.

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Interview With My Ex: Courtney

“Isn’t it funny how much Facebook used to play a role in flirting?”

In a two panel purple and blue comic, Dickens talks with their friend Sarai. Sarai wants to know why the neighbor's front yard "looks like the Capitol Building on January 6th" and Dickens responds, "that woman is lost to the dark side."

Webcomics

Foolish Child #120: The Neighbors

In a special SATURDAY edition of Foolish Child, “Literally all I heard you say is that we live next-door to TWO white supremacists and now we have to move.”