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Society + Culture

Let’s Toast Megan Rapinoe’s Soon-to-Be Totally Gay Marriage This Sunday Funday

Megan Rapinoe’s engayged, Erika Linder’s staring longingly out windows, a roller derby player became a local treasure, Tama Adrian is trans and running for office in Venezuela, and more big good gay news stories for you!

Carmen August 9, 2015 16 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Knows What You Like

Today’s topics include threesomes, sex and relationship myths, food aphrodisiacs and more!

Ryan Yates August 9, 2015 17 Comments
Gender

Amber Monroe Becomes the 12th TWOC Murdered in the US This Year, We Must #SayHerName

Monroe, a Black trans woman from Detroit was just twenty when her life was taken away from her.

Mey August 8, 2015 10 Comments
Politics + Activism

Donald Trump’s Rosie O’Donnell Jab Wasn’t Just Sexist, It Was Homophobic, Too

In Donald Trump’s world, women without “normative” gender presentations are fat slobs and “traditionally attractive” women are bimbos and idiots.

Riese August 8, 2015 48 Comments
Geekery

Program A Tiny Computer, Queer Your Own Tech

What if anyone who wanted to could buy a small computer at a very low cost and program it to solve their problems?

Eli August 8, 2015 20 Comments
Webcomics

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #11

Dressing the part.

Yao Xiao August 8, 2015 15 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Want To Be Your Gal Pal

Rat tails and assorted tales of galpalship.

carrie August 7, 2015 8 Comments
Politics + Activism

The GOP Debate Was Like the Weirdest New Reality Show on TV

Well that was a wild ride.

Rachel August 7, 2015 31 Comments
Friendship Issues

Interview With My Queer BFF: Laura Interviews Kate

“We were like, no, that’s just what people think! Like, very few boys are attractive, and lots of girls are. That’s just how the world is. ‘Isn’t that sad, that there are so few attractive men, and the ones who are just happen to be famous.'”

Laura Mandanas August 7, 2015 36 Comments
Queer Fashion

You’ll Love Gabi Fresh’s Beautiful Fall Lookbook with ASOS

Blogger and HBIC extraordinaire Gabi Fresh just released her lookbook with ASOS. Sumptuous and opulent, it’s refreshing to see such a fashion forward, trend aware collection made exclusively for plus sized bodies.

Lydia O August 7, 2015 9 Comments
Friendship Issues

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Gaga for Our Gal Pals

I wanna know all about your gal pals! How you met! What you do for fun! Your embarrassing stories! Tell me all about it!

KaeLyn August 7, 2015 142 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: The Right Side Of History

These 30 essays provide important context and understanding of individuals, movements and moments that formed the greater whole of a long fight for queer liberation, one that is far from over but which has made incredible strides in just a few decades.

Adrian August 7, 2015 6 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Loved #181: Things I Listened To That I Loved

This past month I spent over 80 hours driving long distances in a car and another 40 hours organizing and packing things into boxes, which meant I didn’t get a lot of reading done — BUT I SURE DID LISTEN TO A LOT OF PODCASTS! Here are some episodes for you to check out before we return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Riese August 7, 2015 20 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #78: Paper Flowers

How the representation of queerness is changing in African writing; new Shirley Jackson and Dr. Seuss; teen magazines; sexism in publishing; and more.

Ryan Yates August 6, 2015 10 Comments
Friendship Issues

The Speakeasy Presents the Magic of These Revolutionary QTPOC Friendships

Our QTPOC besties are vital to our existence so we wanted to create a list filled with our stories to celebrate just how magical they are.

The Speakeasy August 6, 2015 13 Comments
Music

Punk Will Save Our Hearts, and Worriers’ “Imaginary Life” Is Proof

Lauren Denitzio uses 12 songs to capture their heart — their rage, their love, their adulthood, their politics — and offer it to the world. In the process, they found the pulse of queerness in 2015 and turned it into a drumbeat.

Adrian August 6, 2015 11 Comments
Friendship Issues

Interview with My Queer BFF: Maddie Interviews Zoe

You were my queer spirit guide. You gave me a bunch of queer YA books over the first year of our best friendship. You said, “You didn’t have a queer adolescence, this is happening.”

Maddie August 6, 2015 31 Comments
Queer Pregnancy

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Nine — Our Kid Doesn’t Have Two Moms

So what will Tiny call Simone?

haley August 6, 2015 59 Comments
Politics + Activism

Daily Fix: The Season of GOP Debates Is Upon Us and More News

A wedding venue in Missouri that’s legally turning away a lesbian couple, Piper Kerman testifying before Congress about what it’s like for incarcerated women, Charly Keunang’s family is suing, and more.

Rachel August 6, 2015 18 Comments
Queer Fashion Shopping

Ilana’s Summer Essentials: Broad City’s Top 5 Warm Weather Looks

Ilana Glazer’s namesake character on Comedy Central’s “Broad City” often has me yelling at the computer screen, gushing over whatever she’s thrown together. Two parts Forever21 and one part Tumblr, Ilana encapsulates what I love the most about summer style (even though she seems to wear it year round).

Lydia O August 6, 2015 36 Comments
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