“When it first came out I loved the show for its humor, for its raw portrayal of depression and grief, and because, like any rational person, I’m deeply in love with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. But it wasn’t until about a year into my transition that the show started consuming my thoughts.”
Amy Poehler’s punch-drunk gal pal comedy features longtime SNL writer Paula Pell as a lesbian vintage shop owner with a brand new knee and fresh desire to fall in love.
What we want is not to be brave, but to be free.
“You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Plus poems about soft bodies on a planet in peril, an argument for binge reading and more.
We’re allowed to expect more from our stories in 2019.
Plus: Watch Laverne Cox get ready for the Met Gala, Suranne Jones’ gay struttin’ on Gentleman Jack is on purpose, the CW wants a full season of Batwoman, Disney’s live-action Lady & the Tramp will replace the racist cat song with a new Janelle Monáe track, and more!
Also Jasika Nicole wins ANOTHER award, Samira Wiley wants to dance with somebody who loves her, and Tegan or Sara prove definitively that Captain Marvel’s is gay.
“I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met with hostility, exclusion, and violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, and community.”
“Look, we all know how the gays feel about their representation…”
I could carry that heavy canoe further than any of the other teenage girls on my trip. I could carry that canoe, because that meant I didn’t have to carry my grief and my mom had to carry her own weight, because I wasn’t home.
I’m not very fussy about my wine, but I am very fussy about my board games.
“Honestly I love myself, and I think I’m super hot.”
The Legends get trapped in the Ice Age trying to save Ray, while Ava, Nora and Mona try to stop Evil Gary.
Most people didn’t understand the theme, but last night’s Met Gala was as glamorous and queer as ever! Maybe, even more than usual this year!! Here are some of my favorite looks, paired with literal notes on camp.
Eight books with steamy summer affairs between women, with some settings abroad to boot!
Alex and Kelly go on a trip to find out if Alex is about to become a mother while Kara and Lena go on a trip to find out what the hell Lex has been up to in Kaznia.
Our favorite ways and places to be outside.
This week on “To L and Back,” a smash-hit podcast about The L Word, Lara tells Dana that it doesn’t change the way she feels about her or how much pleasure she gave her!
The mountains and forests of Northwest Montana were where I felt the freest as a lesbian, but I didn’t know that feeling had queer roots going back 100 years, to when my doppelgänger was wandering these woods.
So much of what we might think of as queer lyric poetry comes is set by Sappho’s example: her attempts to speak her desire so emphatically that it wills love into existence.