Foolish Child #78: We Got Jokes
“You know I can’t tell when you’re making Black people jokes!”
Get These Limited Edition Fundraiser Perks While You Can!
Look at all the cool things you could buy during our last fundraiser of 2020! Get your holigay shopping done early! Tell a friend!
Coming Out Twice: On Being Gay and Asexual in a World Without Representation
Every asexual person has a moment when the recognition sets in. Those moments would come a lot easier if asexuality was more prominent in pop culture.
Q & A With Kirsten Harris-Talley, A Queer Black Scorpio Femme and State Rep Candidate
Kirsten Harris-Talley is an organizing phenom, queering notions of political leadership — what can a “serious” political figure value publicly?
No Filter: Breaking News! Jen Richards Got Engaged! And It’s the Cutest Thing!
Jen Richards and Rebekah Cheyne are engaged! Also, Sara Ramirez basically said “suns out buns out,” Janet Mock and Janelle Monae simply refuse to remove their feet from my neck!
34 Feelings You Have About Voting For Joe Biden
“I would vote for a dead dog if it was running against Trump.”
Also.Also.Also: Kamala Harris Picked as VP, Officially Becomes Straight Bette Porter
Kamala Harris has become first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party. (Also, did you know, women of color are running for congress at an all-time high? I like to call it the “Squad Effect.”)
QUIZ: Tomato Variety or Sex Toy?
Who names tomato varieties, and why are they so horny?
You Need Help: My Friend Has a Crush on Me
“She promised not to make things awkward between us, since she knows I’m not available, and hoped it wouldn’t make things awkward on my end – but here’s the problem. It is awkward!”
My Top 10 Television Characters: Carmen, Who Never Forgets the Women Who Deserved Better
Is it a coincidence that this list of “women I loved who deserved better” is comprised of women of color — and almost exclusively queer women of color? Given the intertwined histories of sexism, racism, and homophobia in this country, I think not.
You Got Us 45% of the Way There in 6 Days, Will You Get Us to 50% Today?
Hi hello fellow gays and queers, lesbians and bisexuals; it is Monday and look where we are! $53,713 of the way to our goal. That’s 45% in six days, people.
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 403 Recap: Fight or Flight
Nicole tries to protect the Homestead from a People Eater while Waverly helps Wynonna compete in a Chili Cookoff FOR FREEDOM. This episode is bonkers, y’all.
Future Present: Talking with Johanna Hedva About the Luxury of Our Needs
Why do we talk about care as a scarcity model? How do you live with ~the void~? How do we adjust to changing language for identity and in movements? Is America going to end in 2024? All this and more!
Pop Culture Fix: Heather Morris Remembers Naya Rivera, Thanks You for Brittana From the Bottom of Her Heart
Also: Lizzo is going to develop some TV projects for Amazon, Zoë Kravitz rightfully calls out Hulu for cancelling High Fidelity, Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson in conversation, and more.
Playlist: Musical Theatre for the End of Capitalism
We can end capitalism, and we will do it with showtunes! Because, to quote famed lesbian Elphaba, “Nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was, is EVER gonna bring me down!”
“To L and Back” Podcast Episode 501: LGB Tease
We’re back NOW WITH TRANSCRIPTS for Episode 501, in which Jenny refuses a croissant and Tasha calls to say she can’t talk right now and Jodi hates table cloths.
Sunday Funday Is Working for Women’s Rights! WERK!
The Schuyler sisters are back to honor the women’s suffrage centennial, Pride week is coming to the Navajo Nation, Kae Tempest is nonbinary, and Queen Latifah on a motorcycle just because you deserve it. Happy Sunday, friends!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Having Masked Sex
How Shine Houston made queer porn great, how action and pleasure go together, how to be a better top, what cannabis can do for your masturbation and more.
Reine #11: Heat Wave
One hot, queer week in the summer of 2020. From face masks, to protests, to cats sleeping on ice packs to beat the heat.
The Comment Awards Are Loyal and True
“James is a great man who let Bette Porter yell at him all the time and never complained. He was Bette’s most loyal bottom.”