“…but I also think that part of what our light box project did was to not assume that participation in mainstream culture means that you also have to take the structures of visibility that come with it as a given.”

Unfortunate representation of queer communities may piss us off but it doesn’t mean it won’t help in some wacked out way. Just look at lesbian pulp fiction novels.

Drew Burnett Gregory writes, directs, and stars in a new horror short, and it’s available for you to stream!

Being invisible is in some ways a privilege. QTPOC who are visible are subject to scrutiny at best and violence at worst. I don’t want to talk about visibility. I’m still ashamed of the lonely, aching part of me that longs for recognition.

“My armor was a smile, Santana’s was an insult. And bless her for it.”

“If Rachel Maddow ever hits Dinah Shore karaoke party in a three-quarter-length leather coat and leather pants, it will look like every performance on this live album.”

Happy International Kissing Day! Celebrate by revisiting the best lesbian movie make outs of all time!

Dream with me, if you will. It’s the mid-1960s, and you and your queer friends are looking for some place to go to meet others like you when you hear rumors about a members-only club called Gateways tucked away in a hidden corner of the city.

Book archives and research on queer identity from the Institute for Sexual Science were destroyed by Nazi book burnings. Our history and culture got lost. What else had I missed about the queer past of my city?

Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.

“I can’t explain how unreal it felt to be able to let my guard down with a big group of strangers on a hike.”

Reneice is making us a cake! Then you can make the cake! We can all make the cake!

Even now, almost a decade after The L Word’s final season, with LGBTQ+ representation at unprecedented heights, we still hold Jenny Schecter up as our ultimate villain. Her name is a curse, a swear, a shortcut for derision. She is a model of bad behavior.

For nearly 50 years, queer activists kissed each other as a form of protest.

I came out the same year as The Haunting of Hill House, and it was as if Mike Flanagan handed me a gift for realizing I love women.

Breaking the fourth wall does not count as dismantling anything.

How many organs do I have to replace before I can be classified as “biologically female”?

During my most nervous-system-destroying breakup to date, I found myself feeling like an abandoned child, the victim of a broken contract.

There is joy here. I have dreamed of this 100 times, prayed for it twice as many.

I was ready to declare myself and to bring everyone else who was ready along for the ride. I thought, “I’m going to put as many women as I can into one publication, and they’re gonna get to say whatever the f*ck they want.” And Selfish, the magazine, was born.