fonseca

90s nostalgia

movie night

movie features

Movie Night: My Girl

This week, we are celebrating all things awkward and charming, like middle-aged morticians, make-up artists with drag sensibilities, adolescent tomboys and their wimpy male partners-in-crime, not to mention the overprevalence…

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Dec 14, 2012

Daily Fix

homophobia

society + culture

LGBT Retirement Homes Step Up in Response to Homophobia and Mistreatment of LGBT Elders

With support for gay equality at an all-time-high and the focus on an aging generation of baby boomers, our LGBT predecessors are finally getting the much-needed care they deserve.

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Dec 12, 2012

Going Down (South)

here comes honey boo boo

tv feature

Going Down (South): Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Child, Southern Progressive Icon

Actually, I love the image that comes from being from the same state as the Honey Boo Boo Child herself.

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Dec 12, 2012

documentaries

Going Down (South)

movie reviews

Going Down (South): Home Is Where The (Queer) Heart Is

What can we stand to learn from a self-described ‘misfit’ living in rural Louisiana in the 1950s?

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Dec 4, 2012

poems

read a f-cking book

lgbt book reviews

Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart

Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.

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Nov 26, 2012

team pick

coming out

Your Parents Might Need This: Advice on Coming Out Over the Holidays

It’s likely that your parents are mulling over their own special set of holigay related dilemmas.

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Nov 14, 2012

angelina jolie

Daily Fix

movie news & trailers

Laurent Cantet’s Foxfire Adaptation Looks Great (Even Without Angelina Jolie)

16 years after the original film, Foxfire is getting a reboot at the hands of French director Laurent Cantet. Think riot grrrl, but with saddle shoes.

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Nov 11, 2012

Daily Fix

evangelical christianity

politics + activism

In God We Trust: Gay Kids, Religion, and Group Homes

A gay man in Florida reports being abused at the hands of his Christian group home. However, this is only the start of Florida’s problems with religion and the foster…

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Nov 7, 2012

Lists/Top 10s

playlists

Playlist: Swedehearts

There must be something in the lingonberry jam and kaffebröd, as Sweden has given us so much great pop music in the last four decades.

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Nov 2, 2012

spoken word

team pick

book features

Fonseca’s Team Pick – Leah Horlick

Leah Horlick is an ass-kicking, award-winning Canadian poet who is taking the queer literary world by storm.

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Oct 26, 2012

advice

Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts

hair

Queer Girl Hairstory: Our Hair’s Not So Straight Either Part 3

Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.

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Oct 25, 2012

advice

Alternative Lifestyle Haircuts

hair

Queer Girl Hairstory: Our Hair’s Not So Straight Either Part 2

Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.

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Oct 22, 2012