The Comment Awards Are Getting Cozy
“My girlfriend has been calling me the Christmas Switch for a year now.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #23: What If Your Partner Didn’t Tell You They Were Potentially Exposed to Covid?
Your partner doesn’t want to talk about raising your kids to be anti-racist, longing to reach out to a former friend, and more!
Rachel Maddow Bares Her Soul About Her Partner’s Terrifying Battle With COVID
It was a surreal experience watching Maddow open up like that. She is the voice of calm reason, the anchor of logic, the brilliant and articulate go-to liberal pundit who has made more sense than anyone else out of this Trumpian/Orwellian nightmare-chaos we’ve been living in for the past five years. But last night, she was raw emotion.
S L I C K: Constellations #5 A First Date Picnic With Bennett & Ella
Bennett raised their eyebrows, trying not to blush. They wanted it, they really, really wanted it. They’d made themself a promise because they didn’t want to get involved with someone who wasn’t right. But this was different.
Also.Also.Also: Beyoncé Sent Roxane Gay an Ivy Park Box, Black Bisexual Nerds the Time Has Arrived!
How Much Bisexual Energy Do You Radiate? It’s time to find out! Also: searching for the “Ethereal Bisexual” woman in Barack Obama’s memoir, Cara Delevingne is now co-owner of a sex technology brand, and Stacey Abrams on finishing the job in Georgia.
“A New York Christmas Wedding” Asks You to Believe in the Power of Love at Christmas
I love Christmas. I love having a guardian gayngel. And even when the movie is not great, I love a queer Afro-Latina in New York getting her very own Gay Christmas Love Story.
Heartwarming Gifts for Burning Down the System: Shopping for the Protestors in Your Life
This holiday season, show your favorite anti-fascist that you care with a gift they can take into the streets.
“Happiest Season” Review: Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis Are at Their Best in an Instant Holigay Classic
Clea DuVall manages a real Christmas miracle in Happiest Season by capturing the distinctly queer and quietly heart-wrenching experience of not being able to share your real self with the people you love most, when all you want to do is shout from the tallest chimney in town that you’ve found your person, that you’re in love.
Lez Liberty Lit: A Cute Panopticon
Why literature is so self-aware, living like an artist, caring for others without destroying yourself and more.
Can You Scroll Your Way to Self-Healing? Navigating Social Media Therapy Influencers and Mental Health
Therapy influencers can point you in the right direction, certainly… but healing happens in relationships, intentionally and in an embodied way, over the course of our lives.
Foolish Child #84: After the Storm
“I’m sorry. The last four years have just… destroyed my optimism.”
Pop Culture Fix: Amazon Prime’s “The Wilds” Is a Lesbian Dystopic Slumber Party
Films with Black talent to watch this holiday season, new trans characters on Charmed and Saved By The Bell, Wonder Girl with a Latina lead is coming to the CW, Mariah’s magical Christmas special, and more!
I Watched “The Princess Switch” And It Turns Out It’s Not About Being a Princess Switch
Much to my chagrin, this did not turn out to be a movie about Vanessa Hudgens and Vanessa Hudgens taking turns topping each other.
No Filter: Let’s Play Gameshow Host — Hayley Kiyoko Dyed Her Hair, Said Name That Color
Plus: Niecy Nash and Da Brat had the gayest double date in history, and yep we’re still in love with Chef Melissa King.
No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
A look into the history — and present! — of mid-century lesbian pulp fiction.
Also.Also.Also: Is What You’re Doing Tonight as Cool as Making Custom Queer “Daria” Avatars?
How to spend Thanksgiving alone & love every minute, how to help with the two Georgia Senate runoff elections immediately (49 days left!), how to have personalized selected sex toys delivered to your home, and yes — get in loser, we’re making Daria-themed Avatars for all our accounts.
You Need Help: I Just Came Out, and I Feel Weird
Coming out isn’t a magic trick that makes us suddenly understand ourselves completely.
Eroticism Isn’t a Distraction in Maryam Keshavarz’s “Circumstance”—It’s Vital
“If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?”
MALLRAT Is for Millennials Who Miss Emo & Their New Album Is the Balm We All Need
Emo is less of a genre than it is a state of mind. For MALLRAT, a queer and emotional three-piece band, it’s also a spiritual release, a community-builder, and a comfort.
Pop Culture Fix: So You Agree? You Think Buffy Is Bisexual?
A new series for Niecy Nash, the enduring bisexual majesty of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Fortune Feimster’s truly hilarious wedding photos, your weekly Javicia Leslie check-in, and Janelle Monáe on the cover of Out magazine.