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Life

You Need Help: My Parents Want Me to Respect My Sister’s Homophobic Religious Beliefs

How do I get my parents to see that neutrality in this situation feels like they’re rejecting me too?

Casey July 12, 2022 17 Comments
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield features an ocean against a pink background.
LGBT Book Reviews

This Gay Ocean Horror Book Is So Good I Want To Scream

Our Wives Under The Sea is queer horror at its finest.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 12, 2022 10 Comments
Good Trouble Episode 410 Recap: Malika and Davia hold hands while talking
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 410 Recap: What I Wouldn’t Give for Love

Has Angelica always been tepid about Malika’s polyamory? Yes. But this isn’t communicating. This is Angelica telling Malika about a decision that she’s already made based on fears that she hasn’t bothered to tell Malika about.

Natalie July 11, 2022 3 Comments
Anne Lister and Ann Walker in period costumes against a red background
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: “Gentleman Jack” Is Cancelled, Music Is No Longer Jaunty

Plus, first looks of Rosie O’Donnell in A League of Their Own, Florence Pugh freeing the nipple and taking down the patriarchy, a new Harley Quinn trailer, and more!

Valerie Anne July 11, 2022 15 Comments
Cast of the new Queer as Folk in a graphic atop a fuzzy image of the original cast
TV Reviews

I Wish Peacock’s “Queer as Folk” Season One Had Like 14 More Episodes

Peacock’s new “re-imagining” of Showtime’s “Queer as Folk” is brimming with promise, exuberance and sex that is both groundbreaking and incredibly hot — and what I found myself wanting from the show was simply more of it.

Riese July 11, 2022 21 Comments
Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin features a white girl with short blonde hair sitting on bleachers. The image is repeated three times.
LGBT Book Reviews

This Sporty Queer YA Novel Is the Best Book I’ve Read in Years

In last year’s Like Other Girls, Britta Lundin creates a heartwarming depiction of queer mentorship and intergenerational queer friendship.

Casey July 11, 2022 21 Comments
Against a lavender background, on the bottom right corner of the image, there is a black line drawing of two women with 1950s hairstyles whispering to each other. In the upper left corner, there is a speech bubble. Inside the speech bubble, there is an image of a white person in a white crop top wearing black latex underwear against a pink background.
Sex Toys

Lorals Latex Underwear Gave Me Minimal Pleasure and Maximal Wedgies

And as the latex was rolling in on itself, it took any hair on my body with it, so I got the bikini wax I never asked for.

Guest July 11, 2022 7 Comments
The author Chris Belcher is a white lesbian with brown shoulder length hair and bangs, and she is wearing a black shirt under a white blazer.
Book Features

Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex

“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”

Drew Burnett Gregory July 11, 2022 3 Comments
Heathers, The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Next To Normal, Tarrytown, We Are The Tigers, It: The Musical, Carrie, and Heathers.
Quizzes Theater

Quiz: Which Horror Musical Are You?

I am exhilarated, thrilled, absolutely gobsmacked at how horror musicals have gotten me through this pandemic.

A. Tony Jerome July 10, 2022 4 Comments
Book Lists

12 Self-Published LGBTQ Books To Bring to the Beach This Summer

Find sweet, steamy, and escapist reads in this list of self-published romance books to throw in your beach or pool bag this summer.

Sarah Wallace July 10, 2022 8 Comments
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First Person

My Girlfriend Installed My Bidet While I Cheered Her On: A Love Story

After the powerful stream of water was done ricocheting off my asshole, I turned the bidet off and gave my girlfriend a standing ovation. 

Vanessa July 9, 2022 13 Comments
Against a light blue background, two friends try to work out their pronouns. Both friends are people of color, one has a blue mullet and one has dark curly hair. They celebrate as they try out a "she/sir!"
Webcomics

Reine #36: Figuring It Out

Wake up lads, new lesbian gender just dropped.

Ren Strapp July 9, 2022 15 Comments
In Stranger Things, Robin and Vickie — two queer white teens in the 1980s, with short hair, Vickie is a redhead and Robin is a brunette — stand next to each other while making Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches in a shelter. They are smiling and laughing, and the sunlight shines between them.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Is “Stranger Things” Really Giving Us a 1980s Teen Lesbian Happy Ending?

Plus updates on For All Mankind and don’t forget to watch the WNBA All-Star game this weekend!

Valerie Anne July 8, 2022 10 Comments
Cynthia Erivo, Beth Ditto, Wanda Sykes, ER Fightmaster and Poppy Liu in suits
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Queer Fashion

100 LGBTQ+ Women, Nonbinary and Transmasc Celebrities Killing It In Suits

Whether you’re looking for eye candy or fashion inspo, here’s 100+ lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans women, nonbinary people and trans men looking great in suits!

Riese July 8, 2022 26 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Sitting in a Lesbian Sports Bar

“I was at the first Sacramento Monarchs game, so technically I remember the WNBA before Sue Bird. I still have my souvenir ticket!”

Darcy July 8, 2022 4 Comments
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan, These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall, All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens, Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher, Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, Knocking Myself Up by Michelle Tea, Youngblood by Sasha Laurens, Can't Resist Her by Kianna Alexander, Ask the Brindled by No'u Revilla, Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress, and Wash Day Diaries.
Book Lists

49 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Summer 2022

Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.

Casey July 8, 2022 18 Comments
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AF+

A+ Roundtable: Coping with Climate Change

“Corrupt politicians and leaders want to destroy our spirit. We can’t let them.”

the team July 8, 2022 10 Comments
Against a white tiled background, a white person's hand holds up a cardboard sign that reads, "MY BODY MY CHOICE."
First Person Queer Pregnancy

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

Roe v. Wade has been overturned, today, as I lie here praying that I’m pregnant. And I have never been more pro-choice than I am in this moment.

R/B Mertz July 8, 2022 13 Comments
In Thor: Love and Thunder, Valkyrie, who's now gay on screen, sits next to Jane Foster. Valkyrie is played by Tessa Thompson, Jane is played by Natalie Portman. The two actresses are in matching gold thrones, one with red velvet seats and one with green. Valkyrie is in a gold robe with a hood, and Jane is in a green robe with a hood. Jane is leaning in to talk with Valkyrie.
Movie Reviews

“Thor: Love and Thunder” Promised Us Gay Valkyrie, So What Happened Here?

After being queer coded for years, everyone expected that Valkyrie would finally have a major gay storyline. And yet! How did Marvel still get it so wrong?

Carmen Phillips July 8, 2022 22 Comments
Brittney Griner is in a red t-shirt that says "Crenshaw" and round glasses, descending on a staircase in a government building. In front of her is a w white woman with blonde hair, wearing a hat that looks like that of an Russian official or security officer.
Politics + Activism

Brittney Griner Pleads Guilty in Russia, We Hold Our Breath for What Comes Next

End this nightmare. Bring BG home.

Carmen Phillips July 7, 2022 13 Comments
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