“Shrill” Gives Fran the Queer Joy She Deserves in the Final Season
I look at her and I see my killer body, my effervescent personality, my sweet determination, and even my quietest fears.
Mythic Quest’s Queer Season 2 Storyline Gets Gamer Girl High Score
The Mythic Quest queer storyline features Ashly Burch as game tester Rachel who has a big lesbian crush on her co-tester, Imani Hakim’s Dana.
Okay Tina Fey’s “Girls5Eva” Really Is Super Great and Super Gay
Girls5Eva is honestly hilarious — and it’s a lot easier to feel like you’re in on the gay jokes when you’re actually represented on-screen.
So You Want to Wear Shorts This Summer
We covered the return of the 90s and the 70s in our last edition, and you can expect to see that trend continuing here! The 90s influence is especially strong in the athletic short space — think Princess Diana and her iconic bike shorts. The 70s vibes are coming in hot with prints and patterns, which I personally am digging!
Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp
Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short hair. Muscular, athletic body. My hand on an unfamiliar, living knee.
The Comment Awards Are Really Into the Void
“The last quiz revealed I am Anne Lister’s boots. Now my gender is ‘a tiny piece of arugula stuck between Tilda Swinton’s teeth.’ I can see where this is coming from but I am starting to feel slightly concerned.”
Also.Also.Also: Alison Bechdel Is Working on a “Dykes to Watch Out For” Animated TV Series!
Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.
I Still Can’t Believe Marvel’s Never Heard of Bisexuality
Captain Marvel is so gay the writers had to add a line of dialogue to try to convince the audience Maria and Carol slept in different rooms. You know, on account of the house they shared and the daughter they were raising together.
S L I C K: Syd Sysco Volume LXIX: At the Feet of the Goo Empress of 61 Cygni
It was her. Her thighs, her stomach, her chin, her eyes, her balls, her lips, her long fingers. Her breasts like year-long tear drops hanging against a backdrop of soft white clouds in the sky. She sat down on the stone facade and her thighs spread like water.
16 Fictional Queer Redheads You Can’t Handle
Carol Aird knew what she was talking about when she said you can’t handle a redhead.
The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women
Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space as Asian women.
“Supergirl” Episode 607 Recap: Nightmare Before Hiatus
In the mid-season finale, Lena and Kelly join Alex and the team and face their worst fears as they make one final push to save Kara.
Ellen DeGeneres Is Ending Her Talk Show Amid Endless Backlash (But Reportedly Not Because of Backlash)
I’m grateful for Ellen. And I hope she does continue to try to do as much good as she can in the world. I also hope, along the way, she learns that calls for civility have most often been used to silence the oppressed, that kindness is not justice, and that being nice isn’t enough.
No Filter: Well, I Was Unprepared for Ali Krieger’s Mom to Be Hot
Alright, let’s bring on the hot moms!
Pop Culture Fix: Margot Robbie Wants to Kiss on Poison Ivy in the Next Birds of Prey
Aubrey Plaza will play cartoon Satan’s mom, Laverne Cox will anchor E!’s red carpet, Mare of Easttown’s bad hair rule, Freeform’s queer summer shows have premiere dates, and more!
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Plus: The story behind Stacey Abrams fiction career, the WNBA’s 25 firsts on their 25th anniversary, Tumblr is trying to win back queers after driving them away, what does “cancel culture” even mean anymore, and more!
You Need Help: I Thought We Were Both Switches, but My Girlfriend Won’t Touch Me
It sounds like your idea of your sexual dynamic with your girlfriend isn’t lining up with the reality of it.
When Love Is A Matter Of Desperation
Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.
“Pose” Episode 303 Recap: A Tale of Two Mothers
Elektra remembers her fraught relationship with her own mom, and how she became the mom her children needed.
“Four More Shots Please” Season Two Was a Betrayal
Four More Shots Please wants to broach serious issues relating to gender and sexuality but puts in no work to actually address them in any kind of meaningful way and opts for superficial declarations of feminism, instead.