It’s Sunday Funday’s First Gay Pride — And Then, A Bear in a Hammock
President Obama is puttin’ his rainbow mardi gras beads on, Rachel Jeantel has a diploma (bitches!), and also: A BEAR IN A HAMMOCK. IMPORTANT.
On Making Mistakes and Futzing About
In which I relearn a lesson about technology I had forgotten.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Mixed Roots
On being a queer mixed-race woman.
Things I Read That I Love #129: The Bird Can’t Be Here, The Bird Lives In Wichita
Topics include Maya Angelou, Angelina Jolie, writing for “Mad Men,” Chirlane McCray, prison labor, Valerie Solanas and moar!
The Comment Awards Are So Happy To See You
An A-Camp hangover, rum cake and Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual Single.
Going Beyond Going Down: Why Diverse Queer Sex On TV Matters
“And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally. I have seen her ass now twice. My problem isn’t her being ass naked. She has straight sex and is naked, but this other character has gay sex and both of them — bras on, underwear on.”
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Your Five-Step Guide to Telling Me Everything
HAY, GIRL OR OTHERWISE IDENTIFIED HUMANS! It’s Friday, which means it’s time for you to both make a desire map and share your entire life history with me in this open thread. Get in here!
Laverne Cox is Amazing on the Cover of Time, Time’s Story Inside Not So Much
Transgender activist and Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox became the first ever openly transgender person to grace the cover of Time Magazine. However, the cover story wasn’t as perfect as the cover itself.
Taking Over the World One Controller at a Time: The Good News About Queer Games
Like playing video games? How about the queer, genderqueer and trans people who make them? Here’s how your queer worldview is carving out more real estate in the world of gaming.
Wilder Hungers: Pineapple Rum Cake and The Catskills
“I’ve started a supper club of sorts called Pineapple Potluck. For the first dinner I made my Mama’s Puerto Rican rum cake and pineapple mint margaritas.”
Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual Is Single Again: What Does This Mean For You?
“Sources close to Autostraddle.com report that the newly single Ms. Wood was spotted dancing at a ladies’ party called the Grind in Los Angeles this past Wednesday night, sparking rumors that you, yes YOU stand even a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming Evan Rachel Wood’s new paramour.”
Confessions of a Beauty Queer: The Best Goodbye of My Life
“I was simply a girl who thought she liked girls at one point in her life, but prayed it away, and now life was good. Right?”
Lez Liberty Lit #47: Filled With Poetry
“Bad girls” in YA, lack of diversity, an awesome interview with Janet Mock, reconsidering adverbs and more.
Faking It Episode 106 Recap: I Promise This Threesome Won’t Be Weird At All
This week on “Faking It,” everybody gets ready for a three-way!
WNBA Makes Pro Sports History, Announces National LGBT Pride Platform
“The WNBA has a very proud history of welcoming all fans, athletes, and partners to our game. These beliefs unite the 12 teams of the WNBA and we are very excited to introduce the WNBA Pride platform which celebrates acceptance and values inclusion.”
We Thought We Had The Voice Forever: In Memoriam of Maya Angelou
“For me, as a black, lesbian, masculine-of-center woman, I thank her for showing me how to make my invisible self visible.”
Dear Queer Diary: Top Secret
If I show you mine, would you show me yours?
Asking the Question: When Public Interrogation of Trans Women’s Bodies Turns into Open Sexualized Violence
“Beyond being merely invasive, there are situations in which trans women can detect a seed of violence in these kinds of questions, which in numerous cases has manifested in actual violence. Last week in Atlanta just such a situation led to an extreme and violent incident in which two trans women were attacked, and one was beaten and forcibly stripped naked in public, evidently as a form of punishment for resisting such interrogation.”
On Continuing to Live In the Same World that Made Elliot Rodger (and Many Like Him)
“Our fear of being dismissed or not believed is so strong that sometimes we need to wait for an unequivocally misogynistic event to talk about it all, just so we can be sure that those around us are at least starting off from a place of understanding that yes, this happens. There’s a hope that when the danger to women’s lives was so recently demonstrated, there will be more receptivity in listening to our experiences of how that danger functions and is allowed to prosper.”
Q-Taku: “Sailor Moon” Is Even Better With All The Gay Parts
Along with the new Sailor Moon anime coming in July, the original series is back unedited with a new, faithful and queer-friendly English dub coming later this year. Here’s your guide to this trip down nostalgia lane.