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First Person

How Fertility Treatments Got Me Back in Touch With My Queerness

I never imagined I’d have to get an IUI, or that there would be a silver lining.

Feature Image:Row 1 Sex Education, Saved by the Bell, Heartstopper, Elite. Row 2: Genera+ion, Faking It, Degrassi, Glee

Quizzes TV Feature

Quiz: Which Fictional TV High School Should You Have Gone To?

Should you be drinking milkshakes on Heartstopper, breaking bottles on Euphoria or having a fountain soda on Saved by the Bell? There’s only one way to find out!

Photo 1: Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor stand while looking in each other's eyes. Sarah is wearing a long plaid wool coat, and Holland is wearing a black suit with a black and white spotted blouse. Photo 2: Sarah Paulson stands with Holland Taylor, looking at her and smiling. Sarah wears black elbow-length gloves and a yellow evening dress. Holland wears a black suit. Photo 3: Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor stand with their arms around each other. Sarah is giving Holland googly eyes. Sarah wears a black dress with a v-neckline, and Holland wears a taupe suit.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Just a Random Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson Appreciation Post

Let’s celebrate seven years of age gap and gay theater couple representation!

In a three way collage, from A Black Lady Sketch Show: Wanda Sykes and Ashley Nicole Black laugh together at a nightclub, Robin Thede dressed as a toddler makes a hand sign as if to say what's up, and Raven Simone in a green flannel and braids away from her face looks confused.

TV Lists

Top Five Queer Comedy Sketches to Celebrate A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Best and Gayest Season

Season Three wasn’t just the funniest season of A Black Lady Sketch Show, a declaration of its prime — it’s also the gayest. And so, here are the Top 5 Queer Sketches to celebrate Season Three’s victory lap.

In blue and coral pastels, a two panel comic. In one two queers are loading a U-Haul while yelling at each other, in another, once moved in, the two queers eat a piece of pizza.

Webcomics

Reine #34: Moving Season

The amount of packing and U-Hauling that has been done in the past few months… Lesbians on the move!!

In a two split collage, the first image: Lourdes, Nathan, Anthony, Jacob, Naomi and Annabelle work together to track down Naomi's parents, Dee, Zumbado and Akira, who have been kidnapped. The second image: In Charmed, Roxy holds Ruby's chin and plants one on her.

TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: We Prepare to Say Goodbye to Naomi and Charmed After the CW’s Red Wedding

Plus updates on Top Chef, A Million Little Things, and 9-1-1.

Chrishell Stause and G Flip are facing each other and holding each other in the middle of a convenience store. G Flip is wearing a white tank and low rise jeans, and Chrishell is wearing a tight black leather mini dress.

Pop Culture Fix

21 Chrishell and G Flip Titles We Brainstormed After Losing the SEO Wars to a Corporate-Backed Media Company

8. I Just Remembered Vitamin Water Exists After Seeing Chrishell Stause and G Flip Make Out Next To It

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Slutty, Helpful, and Unable to Wear Shoes

“Carry on thinking about Chef Melissa’s Soup!”

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Food and Drink

Five Ways I’ve Changed Since Buying An Espresso Machine

Buying this new espresso machine has made me more, how do I put this, wifey material? Yeah.

The album cover for Kehlani's "blue water road" features Kehlani on a stone-lined beach wearing a white buttondown, and their hair is blowing in the wind.

Music

Kehlani’s New Album “Blue Water Road” Is a Sensual Exploration of Self

Sensuality is the overarching theme of the album, even in songs that are not explicitly about romantic entanglements. You can find it in bass lines, or just the overall vibe.

two genderqueer people re-pot plants and trees and vegetables with resuable pots for their home garden. They are smiling and look like they're having a delightful time.

AF+

Member2Member Advice: GARDENING

Members helping members to grow plants!

In a still from Netflix's First Kill, two teen girls (one black and one white with brunette hair) lay together on a bed underneath blue twinkling lights, the white teenager looks to to the black teen's face. The black teen stares directly at the camera.

TV News & Trailers

Also.Also.Also: First Kill’s Sapphic Teen Vampires Will Take a Bite Out of Summer (Sorry, I Had To)

“First Kill” looks like Buffy had a baby with the good seasons of Pretty Little Liars, and that’s extremely my shit! Also, how Black queer women are finding agency in a full set of long nails and a creative writing scholarship for ace writers!

Two fat femmes of different sizes in the same lavender ruched front dress. Fat Femme Fashion.

Style

Fast Fashion Diaries — Fat Femmes On the Difficulties of Curating an Ethical Wardrobe

“Fat and poor people don’t have the easiest access to clothing that makes us feel fly AND is affordable.”

Ava and Deborah sit side-by-side in a car with Deborah in the driver's seat in the Hacks season two premiere.

TV Show Recaps

The Toxic Work Wives of “Hacks” Are Back for a Second Season of Chaos

In its two-part season two premiere, Hacks blows up Ava and Deborah’s relationship. We love hot chaos!

In a still from "Get Me Outta Here," Chrishell Stause and G Flip are making out. Chrishell Stause is wearing jeans and a dark tank. G Flip is wearing jeans and a black mesh tank and a hat.

Music

7 Minutes in 7-Eleven: Chrishell and G Flip Take Big Gulps of Each Other

Sometimes you just gotta make out with and choke out someone in a convenience store, you know?

Repeated three times: An abstract etching print in black ink on white paper. A central, looming abstract figure sits in the upper two-thirds of the paper. It twists with fabric or muscle-like fibers around in an upside-down "U" shape, with several pieces of the main shape curling off to the side and one extending well beneath the shape and hooking to the left like the bottom of a lower-case "G". In the center of the abstract shape is a kind of webbing that unevenly unites the "U" shape. The bottom of the page features a marbling effect that fades in from darker black at the corner to lighter grays in the center, giving the central abstract figure a glowing appearance.

First Person

Pay Attention to the Light Source

When I was 12, men started to ask me for my number at the mall.

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Book Lists

In Verse: Poetry Collections That Conjure Spring

In these books, you won’t necessarily find flowers and natural scenes, but you will find a general feeling of rebirth, of growth, and of finding peace within the things that trouble us.

Anna Kenndrick and Blake Lively from A Simple Favor

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Cinematic Masterpiece “A Simple Favor” Is Getting a Sequel

The Age of Ariana DeBose continues, trailers for Queen Latifah and Jordan Hull’s Hustle and P-Valley Season 2, the lesbian vampire show First Kill dropped photos, and a gay wedding on The Young and the Restless!