Liquor In The Tonic: Four Spring Twists on the Traditional Gin and Tonic
There is no drink simpler than a gin and tonic. Which means it’s the perfect opportunity to (easily) get a little fancy.
Brittani’s Video Party: “Be Here Nowish” with Kate McKinnon’s “Obvious Child”
There’s a party at cruising altitude with a Kate McKinnon sketch, new webseries episodes, and Jenny Slate’s new movie.
Dear Queer Diary: All The Feelings (and Alison Krauss)
When you’re happy/sad/grumpy/giggly/annoyed and you know it, write in your journal!
Jodie Foster and Alexandra Hedison Got Married, Possibly On the Moon
JODIE FOSTER AND ALEXANDRA HEDISON ARE MARRIED.
For All The Girls I Loved Before I Knew I Could
Kelly cut off all her hair and started dating Katie. I started chasing around after a guy who looked like Ellen DeGeneres and trying to make sense of the mess in my brain.
Five Ways to Escape Your Terrible Date
Should I just go to the bathroom and never come out? Should I fake a heart attack? Tell them I got my period and it’s just a beautiful MESS that I need to stop and worship?
Queer Girl City Guide: Charleston, South Carolina
Get to know the Lowcountry!
Excuse Me But These Cats Have Serious Business To Attend To
They are available for endorsements on LinkedIn.
“Faking It” Episode 101 Recap: Let’s Be Lesbians
In the first episode of “Faking It,” two girls are mistaken for a lesbian couple and they sort of just run with it.
What is Agender? Five Things You Should Know
This will be familiar territory for many of you (and that’s great!), but for anyone who isn’t as well-versed, let the learning begin!
Also.Also.Also: Queer People Are Organizing in Tech and Other Stories We Missed This Week
We need more queer people in hip-hop and fewer queer people in prison.
Playlist: OMG A-Camp Is In Four Weeks
Camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp camp EVERYBODY
Do Your Damn Part: Subscribe To Your Local Newspaper
“We all, collectively, need to employ the people who report on issues important to us. And whether we like it or not, whether we relate to the general populace in the area where we live or not, those things happening in our most local sectors effect our lives immensely — even more immensely, usually, than national or international issues and news stories.”
Culinary Classics of Crypto-Lesbian Fiction: Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried green tomatoes are easy and delicious and will impress basically everyone in your life.
Orphan Black Episode 201 Recap: Nature Under Constraint and Vexed
“Dr. Leekie wants Cosima working for them, and Delphine assures him she’s on it. He tells her to be careful playing for the other team, which is a pretty solid gay/double agent joke.”
Lessons Learned From Menstruation Pop Quizzes While Being Intersex
“That being said, I’d like to live in a world someday where people don’t automatically assume my body looks and functions a certain way, that makes room for people like me and my experiences.”
Drawn to Comics: Celebrating the Eisner-Nominated Women of 2014
The nominees for the Eisner Awards were recently announced, recognizing the best in the comic book industry. Here are all the women who were nominated.
National Poetry Month: YaliniDream Opens Spaces and Hearts
I ended up taking advantage of the fact that I was on the margins. I used the power of invisibility to crack open spaces at the edges. The power of performance is impermanence — nobody could catch it and say “here’s proof of what she is saying or doing.”
OPEN THREAD: Keeping It Queer in the Suburbs
I don’t want to let go my connection to the vibrant, inspiring queer culture that’s not immediately accessible to me in my strip-malls-and-big-box-stores environment. How do you keep it queer in your day-to-day life in the suburbs?
MTV’s “Faking It” Is Pretty Good, For Real
Turns out those irritating trailers were just Trojan Horses delivering a cute show with a queer female lead to all of us here on The Isle of Lesbos.