FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Celebrate Being Single This Summer!
Honestly, being single rules. Let’s discuss.
The Comment Awards Are Drinking Modern Lesbian Milk
“Happy to see Lost and Delirious finally getting all the recognition it deserves after its cruel snub on the dead lesbians of television list!”
Things I Read That I Love #291: Through a Dazzlingly Quick Intimacy To Violent Disagreement, Then Silence
Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion and Grease.
Lauren Morelli on the Terrifying, Rewarding, Humbling Experience of Remaking “Tales of the City”
“There are so many ways to love and be loved. Now we get to explore that.”
Where Can You Take a Walk in the Park?
Most of my old hiking companions from Los Angeles are queer. Now I have Goldie, who takes breaks while we walk, just to jump up and kiss me. She places her paws just over my heart.
Queer Tarotscopes: Cancer Season Brings Deep Feelings for Long, Hot Days
All of those ideas and beginnings that were flowing through electric Gemini season will gain powerful traction in these days of Cancer, as we pour our hearts into those projects that speak to us on a deep, internal level, and build safe spaces that give us room for passion, creativity, and comfort.
16 Ways to Grow Closer to Your Boo Without Actually Moving in Together
“Whatever, it’s fine. Give them your kidney. Then take one of their kidneys. It’s a kidney swap.”
Also.Also.Also: The Women’s World Cup Is Winning Hearts, Taking Over TVs
U.S. Women’s Soccer out-earned the men’s team, a review of Al(aina)’s new play(!), the lesbian love boat, androgyny is now fashionable in the WNBA, has focusing on “equality” made the LGBTQ movement too conservative?, Black LGBTQ leaders on Pride + Juneteenth, and more!
“Pose” Episode 201 & 202 Recap: Wintour Is Coming
“Blood does not family make. Those are relatives. Family are those with whom you share your good, bad, and ugly, and still love one another in the end. Those are the ones you select.”
What Happened When I Began to Dig
“I’ve grown physically stronger through trail work than I ever thought possible, but there’s that different kind of strength that trail work has fostered in me that I believe to be a lot more important.”
Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.
No Filter: Samira Wiley Bought a House, May the Lord Open Up Her Pool
Cara and Ashley Benson are instagram official, Samira Wiley needs a housecleaner, Stef Beatriz is the hottest thing at the pool, everyone is in Taylor Swift’s music video and other dispatches from celebrity lesbian instagram!
“Good Trouble” Episode 201 Recap: Alice Comes Out for Real for Love
Alice comes out in a major way, Joey is changing their pronouns, and Jamal Thompon’s case is finally decided.
NSFW PHOTOESSAY: CRUEL TO BE KIND
These photos investigate the connection between pleasure and pain, and how kink can blur the line between where the body ends and the brain begins.
Talking With Candy Feit About ‘Cruel To Be Kind,’ Her Photo Project Highlighting Kink and Intimacy
We interviewed photographer Candy Feit about her inspiration, process, and intentions for Cruel To Be Kind, her most recent photography project.
Golden Animals in Manland: The Strange Place Queer Women Occupy in Bushwork
Bushwork — work done in the backcountry, often off-grid — offers a kind of freedom difficult to find in modern life. It is also a culture steeped in toxic masculinity in which queer women do not have a place.
Foolish Child #48: The Pride Is Right
“Eat my corporate rainbows!”
Pop Culture Fix: “GLOW” Season 3 Confirms Its Gayness
New trailers for GLOW and The Handmaid’s Tale, lots of queer actors and writers and directors talking to straight media for Pride, an amazing new musical fantasy project from Dee Rees, renewals for Pose and Queer Eye, and truly enough takes about Taylor Swift already.
If You Haven’t Watched Suranne Jones in “A Touch of Cloth,” Your British Lesbian Education Is Incomplete
Here’s that Gentleman Jack/Caroline Bingley fan fic you’ve been looking for.
Insta Crush: Kenny Talks Hella Hot Shit on the Internet and You’re Gonna Love It
“What I post on the internet has to be what I can be proud of in person. That just happens to include my titties.”