Photo 1: A group of kids on a little league baseball team gather around their coaches. Photo 2: The writer, Drew, as a young child stands on a baseball field wearing a Mets uniform, a baseball hat, and a baseball glove. Photo 3: Drew holds a bat and wears a 2 jersey and baseball hat while smiling at the camera. Photo 4: Drew swings at a baseball (and is clearly going to miss). Photo 5: Drew wears a 22 jersey and baseball hat and is standing over the plate with a bat, ready to swing.

An Interview With My Dad About Baseball

And about being the parent of a trans kid.

Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury warms up before Game Two of the 2021 WNBA Playoffs

Sports

Brittney Griner Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison by Russian Court, Let This Next Step Bring Her Home

Today is harder than most. But I have to hope — because really, what’s the other choice? — that this guilty verdict is the next step to bringing her home, quickly and safely. There’s no other way.

A pop art in the style of a 1950s comic of a woman laying in bed at night, she looks terrified. Above her in the dark is bright yellow lettering: L, Lesbian Bed Death"

Lesbian Sex

The Gay B C’s of Sex: L Is for Lesbian Bed Death

Why did the term “lesbian bed death” stick around in the queer imagination? Well, it’s catchy. And it’s scary!

Isabel Sandoval in a black Miu Miu sweater sits up on a yellow picnic blanket. She's wearing blue eye shadow and her face is lit in golden light. Shadows of leaves are seen on her face and the blanket.

Movie Features

Slow Takes: “Shangri-La” and What Makes a Great Short Film

Since the rise of video, “just go out and make something” has been a rallying cry to young filmmakers. I would add not to lose yourself along the way — in content or form.

The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed features a sweeping landscape of West Texas and a blue sky with clouds.

LGBT Book Reviews

“The Golden Season” Is a Queer Love Letter to West Texas

The writing is gorgeous and filled with beautiful imagery and insightful quotes.

Sex Toys

8 Clit-Stimulating Sex Toys That Don’t Actually Look Like Sex Toys

Do you need a sex toy that looks like a starfish, a seashell or a duck? Browse this list and get inspired.

TV Show Recaps

“Motherland: Fort Salem” Episode 307 Recap: The Return of Raelle

This is not a drill! Raelle is back! The lesbian witch returneth!

Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise by Jack Parlett features a group of people standing near the water.

LGBT Book Reviews

New “Fire Island” Book Weaves Personal, Historical Narrative To Highlight Power of Community Solidarity

More a place-based memoir than a straightforward history, “Fire Island” provides unique insight on the history, present, and future of this almost mythical place.

Batgirl on the left, the queer teens of First Kill on the right

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Netflix Murders “First Kill,” DC Slashes “Batgirl”

D’Arcy Carden on playing a queer bombshell, Nope’s costume designer on Keke Palmer’s band t-shirts, a night out with King Princess, and oooh I am so mad about these cancellations!

Queer Pregnancy

Needing To Abort Due To a Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnosis Was Heartbreaking Enough Already

Getting a life-limiting fetal diagnosis like trisomy 18 is devastating to expectant parents, who usually choose to abort rather than wait for an inevitable miscarriage, stillbirth, or a painful brief life for their child. But after Roe’s overturning, parents in many areas won’t have that choice at all, making an already heartbreaking situation more dangerous and traumatic.

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Dating Podcasts

“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 206: Celebrity Crushes

Celebrity crushes mean more to queer people than they do to straight people. They can be our first expressions of queer desire or our first expressions of gender envy. They can be a safe place to try out urges that aren’t ready for the real world.

Ashlyn Harris wears a pink shirt and pink shorts and pink hat on the beach while holding and licking the face of Ali Krieger who is wearing a red rank and yellow shorts.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger Are Just Two Cool Hot Moms Hanging at the Beach

They’re living the dream.

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AF+

Chris Belcher Talked With the A+ Book Club About Academia, Memory and More!

“LOL yeah, I lusted for those spencers sex toys so bad”

Demi Lovato has on bright red lipstick and a bob haircut with bangs, they are wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket and standing outside on a bright, sunny day.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Demi Lovato Is Using She/Her Pronouns Again, Talks About Being “Such a Fluid Person”

Our collective Tinder decade, shopping brands for fat femmes that mostly “get it right,” and how to be a good kisser (the complete guide).

Theo Germaine, a white nonbinary trans person with short brown hair, is smiling on the They/Them red carped (there's a bright red They/Them sign behind them). They have a pink shirt, a metal choker, a black jacket, and a nose ring.

Movie Features

Theo Germaine on the Queerness of Horror, the Alchemy of Time, and “They/Them”

“A lot of the history of horror is that, you know, those queer coded people who don’t fit in are baddies.”

Sara Quinn holding a baby against a cartoon rainbow backdrop

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Tegan and Sara Launch “Crybaby” LP With Sara’s New Literal Baby

I don’t know much about babies or motherhood, but from what I can tell, this baby is perfect and is wearing a pair of corduroy lumberjack pants with feetsies in them.

The new Little Liars huddle together in front of a neon light

TV Reviews

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Is as Gay, Bloody, and Bananas as Its Predecessor

This Rosewood-adjacent teen drama knows exactly what it’s about: Teen girls doing slashings, teen girls getting slashed, mysterious notes and threats popping up in unlikely places in unhinged ways, and TWINS.