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.
Star Trek N00b, Episode 20: Tomorrow is Yesterday (And We’re No Longer N00bs!)
The very last Star Trek N00b recap!
22 Ways To Eat Soba Noodles Forever
For the week ahead: a whole bunch of ways to eat soba noodles, because soba noodles are delicious.
More Than Words: 11 “Queer” Questions From 70 Years Of Gallup Polls
What do other people think of us?! The country wants to know.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Spooning Switch
How to fingerblast, air sex, how to start using sex toys, bathroom hook-ups and more.
Sunday Funday’s Gonna Blaze and Praise With Alex Vause, Laverne Cox, and Mary Lambert
Happy 4/20! Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Happy Sunday Funday! Now put down those Peeps and/or matzoh and dig in to some good gay news.
30 Sexy Dinosaur Facts For When You Can’t Think of What to Say in Bed
If you’ve ever thought, “I really wish I knew some super sexy dino facts,” this is definitely the list for you.
I’m Not Mad, Just Disappointed: Where Are The Women of Google’s Project Ara?
The idea of a modular phone is really amazing, but there is something conspicuously absent from Google ATAP’s Project Ara press.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Case of the Floppies
In which Andy has a billion personality flaws, but their gender isn’t one of them.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Every Last Nook and Cranny
HEY! Get in here. I can’t eat these english muffins without you.
Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.
Topics include Clueless, wounds and self-denial, cults, Vera Nabakov, the Top Chef cruise, a botched rape investigation and more!
Turkey’s Plan to Segregate LGBT Prisoners is Bad, But So Is the USA’s
Prisons in both Turkey and the United States separate LGBT individuals from the general population, but this form of segregation hardly solves the issue of violence in prison facilities. In fact, it may further endanger LGBT prisoners.