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‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’

Feeling bad about masturbation is a remarkably normal thing, especially for people who were immersed (drowned) in shame from the…

Summer Tao

Aug 5, 2025

Both/And, Extinction Capital of the World, and The Midnight Shift

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 5, 2025

POP CULTURE FIX

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl…

Valerie Anne

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Aug 4, 2025

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2025

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 5, 2025

pop culture fix

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend! Plus, more buried and unburied gays on TV, Doechii announces upcoming tour, Jinkx…

Valerie Anne —

Aug 4, 2025

book features

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

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good trouble

Good Trouble Recaps: Season 1 – 4

tv show recaps

“Good Trouble” Episodes 202 & 203 Recap: Double the Trouble, Double the Recap

I proudly present, the compliment to last season’s “Men Are Trash (But Sometimes Not)” leaderboard: “These Women Aren’t Defined by Their Relationships (But I am Judging Them for It)” leaderboard.

Natalie —

Jul 3, 2019

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no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Ellen Page Adopted a New Dog for Pride

In the meantime, Samira Wiley wore rainbow eyeshadow, Stephanie Beatriz wore bisexual eyeshadow, and Evan Rachel Wood met a sexually fluid tiger.

Stef —

Jul 3, 2019

friendship

Friendships Are Work, and It’s Worth It: Loving Your Friends Like You Love Your Dates

I want to talk about loving and investing in friendship with the same fervor many of us have been taught to treat romantic relationships only.

Vanessa —

Jul 3, 2019

photoessay

pride 2019

lgbt pride

PHOTOESSAY: NYC’s Dyke March, Queer Liberation March, All-Ages Party, and More (Not Corporate) World Pride

World Pride took over New York last week in what was possibly the largest LGBTQIA+ event in history.

Molly —

Jul 3, 2019

link roundup

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson Is a Damn Delight as Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman on “Drunk History”

Kate McKinnon has her Marianne Williamson impression ready to go, Lucy Lawless can’t believe she’s still having to explain that Xena was gay, Rutina Wesley on this season of Queen…

Heather Hogan —

Jul 3, 2019

essay collection

nonfiction

lgbt book reviews

This New Book on Nurturance Culture Is Needed, but Is It Too Normative?

While “Turn This World Inside Out” makes plain the problems with shaming folks into a more liberated world free of gendered violence, it does so in limited ways that made…

Bani Amor —

Jul 3, 2019

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