No Filter: Thot Shit and the Destruction of White Supremacy, A+ Agenda as Ever Indya Moore!
Welcome to No Filter, Laurie Hernandez (with some excellent Kim Possible cosplay)! Also, I love lesbian Jesus and I love her in Cosmo.
How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone
I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there should have been some acknowledgement of pleasure, consent, or the emotions of sex. Bang! was designed to fill this gap with emotionally-aware, positive sex-ed. While we had been taught about the vas deferens and fallopian tubes, we had never been taught how to even talk about sex with a partner. I made Bang! because I thought it needed to exist.
Also.Also.Also: Sara Ramirez Has Consciously Uncoupled from Their Husband, Is Available For Your Queer Activist Date Dreams
It’s *official* official that Sha’Carri Richardson will miss the Olympics completely, the dangers of being Very Online (ha!), and bigots have finally accomplished their goal of gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Jen Richards on Changing Hollywood and the Projects That Don’t Get Made
“I can be very unchecked in my opinions. And I don’t regret it. I’ve told casting directors in the room that parts are problematic or that projects shouldn’t get made.”
‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
You Need Help: Why Am I So Apprehensive and Anxious About Sex?
Grant yourself the permission to center yourself instead of thinking of all this in terms of how your partner might feel or react. This is about you.
Pop Culture Fix: Um, No Thank You Grimes, Janelle Monáe Already Gave Us a Perfect Lesbian Space Opera
Grimes says her next album will be a space opera about a lesbian A.I. romance? Nah. Also, behind the scenes of Batwoman season two, the search for Renee Montoya, the PLL reboot fills in its cast, why Fear Street is built around a queer love story, and more!
Queer Slasher “Fear Street: 1994” Delivers Trashy Fun, Gay Drama, and 90s Nostalgia
This movie isn’t reinventing the slasher, but it does expand the definition of who gets to be a final girl. It lets queerness sit inside of horror without being the source of said horror.
Quiz: Which Lesbian or Bisexual Woman in Space Are You?
Hello quiz fans, are you ready to boldly quiz where no-one has quizzed before?!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is in Limbic Revision
3D printed toys, STI testing, and Cara Delevingne’s sex toys.
Boobs on Your Tube: And So We Say Goodbye to The Bold Type
A super-sized round up including updates on All American, Charmed, the iCarly reboot has a bisexual storyline you’ll want to see, In the Dark, The Chi, Betty, and the best episode of Genera+ion yet.
“LFG” Takes You Behind the USWNT Gender Discrimination Lawsuit to Stark Places Behind the Lights
The strength of LFG lies in the way it crystallizes the emotional toll of the UWNT’s gender discrimination lawsuit. Its insight into the moments that we didn’t see are the most compelling.
Sadomasochism & Mental Health: Fetish
I don’t really have a lot left from childhood, and after a while, I became very into certain tangible objects. The idea that you could fetishize a material object instantly made sense to me.
Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: I Will Answer Your Questions, If You Listen Closely
You want to know where you came from, is that it? Do not be embarrassed. Nature did not see motherhood in me, either.
The Comment Awards Are Resting Uneasily on the Bisexual Pride Sofa
Can you hold me like a baby spider?
Into the A+ Advice Box #38: Repairing Relationships Can’t Happen Only From One Side
The team answers A+ member questions like: How do you reconnect with friends after not being in touch during COVID? Do you tell a friend where you’re going if you’re meeting someone from the internet on a date? How do you support your partner in speaking up against micro (and macro) aggressions at work? What do you do if you have a crush on a (maybe straight) coworker? How do you navigate a food-related relationship pickle? …And more!
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Japanese pop superstar Utada Hikaru came out as non-binary, getting pregnant when you’re 40 and your partner is trans, and please — do not shove garlic up your nose!
Sadomasochism & Mental Health: Boundaries
Kink is something that I can contextualize my life around, around eroticism generally, and that felt so at home in my brain. That I can have a container for a thing, that it is healthy to have a container for things.
Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection
James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.
July 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream
The Gossip Girl reboot, new seasons of Atypical, This Way Up and Never Have I Ever, a three-part horror trilogy full of ’90s nostalgia with a lesbian couple at its center and more!