The Comment Awards Are Kissing at the VMAs
“All my favorite lesbian love stories start when the hats align.”
Things I Read That I Love #271: Academic Celebrity Soaks Up Blood Like a Pair of Thinx
Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be black and work in fashion, the War on Drugs and more!
Types of Crying as Mitski Songs
“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”
“Wild Mares” Is a Story of Women’s Land and the Midwestern Lesbians Who Loved It (and Each Other)
“At the end of the prologue, I had to put the book down, because I had broken out in ugly, heaving sobs on a Monday night in the dog days of summer, after a hot and heated and emotionally heavy July eclipse, drinking a glass of rose in my apartment in Harlem.”
Cynthia Nixon vs. Andrew Cuomo: She Thinks She Can Win, He’s Worried She’s Right
“The debate found Cuomo clumsily trying to paint Nixon as nothing more than a deranged actor only to be met, repeatedly, with the passionate rejoinders of a lifelong activist and New Yorker who graduated from the public school system, sent her own kids through the public school system, and rides the crumbling New York City subway every day.”
Butch Slut
In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so that an hour later when I told them to stare into each other’s eyes as I fucked my sweetheart’s body, I would mean it with a snarky competitive vengeance, I would mean it with power and control, I would be pushed to take what I want.
The Batwoman Comics You Need to Read Before Her New TV Show
Everything you need to know before her new TV show!
13 Queer Films From Kanopy You Can Stream With Your Library Card For Free
Thirteen of the queerest films from Kanopy, a database you can access through your local library!
Lez Liberty Lit: Kink and History
A new history of BDSM. Plus women in translation, the Asian and Asian American literature explosion and more.
La Boda Jota #1: We’re Not Gonna Wait ‘Til I’m 28
As I quickly learned from the jump, when two queer Latinas are trying to get married — something that sometimes feels like is unheard of — there’ll be some bumps in the road.
Fall 2018 Queer TV Preview: All the Lesbian and Bisexual Women Characters to Anxiously Anticipate
We have searched high and low (brow) and located all the lesbian and bisexual characters you can expect to find on new and returning television shows this fall.
No Filter: Ashley Benson Perfected the Lesbian Thirst Trap Just for You, Cara Delevingne
Also, Lena Waithe gives you the eye and Samira Wiley will totally hold that for you.
“Age-Appropriate” Sex Education Leaves LGBTQ Kids Behind
Models of sex education that focus on what is “age-appropriate” for children inevitably leave LGBTIQ youth in the dark about their own identities.
Pop Culture Fix: The Lesbian “Charmed” Reboot Will be Here in Time For Halloween
Plus: Marceline and PB in the Adventure Time finale, Alex Danvers is maybe getting a new love interest, Roseanne’s gonna die in the Connors spin-off, LGBTQ rep in kids’ shows, rebooted TV with POC characters, and more!
Constance Wu’s Andi Chases Elusive Orgasms in Indie Lesbian Film “The Feels”
Lesbian mumblecore is practically its own genre at this point, but there’s something extra sweet and authentic about this movie.
Queer Flagging 101: How to Use the Hanky Code to Signal the Sex You Want to Have
When the sex we want is criminalized or considered more “perverted” than the sex cisgender heterosexuals are engaging in, a handkerchief in the back pocket is a quiet way to show off our sexual deviancy in a world that doesn’t want to see it.
Find Your Fit: The Boyish Peter Pan Who Needs a Back-to-School Look
“I like to look like a “pretty boy,” wearing traditional masculine clothing with little hints of “masculine femininity” i.e. earrings, nice watches, some lace/floral patterns/soft pinks, rings. I pride myself in feeling a Peter Pan kind of boyish and youthful and fun, but still have a serious side and like to dress myself in nice business professional when the occasion calls for it.”
Begging to Be Sterilized
“It seemed at the time to be exactly what life was about, and only just barely staying alive, curling up in corners of lonely, unclean rooms in shaking fits of sadness too raw to keep inside my head, screaming into my bent knees.”
Anna Kendrick Is Open to Sexual Fluidity, Enjoyed Her Minty Fresh Kiss With Blake Lively
Anna Kendrick gave Pride Source a VERY gay interview.
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 306 Recap: Make the Yuletide Gay
It’s Christmas in Purgatory and Waverly and Nicole sure like dressing up for each other! Jingle all the way, if you know what I mean.