MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE - JUNE 19: Fletcher performs at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 18, 2022 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Josh Brasted/WireImage)

Fletcher’s Song About Becky With The Good T-Shirt, Explained

A small clip from Fletcher’s new song “Becky’s So Hot” — which she wrote about her ex-girlfriend Shannon’s now-girlfriend — has set lesbian TikTok ON FIRE.

Cousins, The House You Pass on the Way, A Wrinkle In Time, Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry, Ramona the Pest, Harriet the Spy, Are You There God It's Me Margaret, and Anne Of Green Gables

Quizzes

Quiz: Which Fictional Heroine From a Classic Tween Book Are You?

If your tweenhood was anything like mine, you spent a considerable amount of time reading books about girls your age going through the same stuff you were.

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Queer Fashion Shopping

Five Outfits for Being Hot and Absolutely Unapproachable at the Reunion

Whether that means family reunion or alumni weekend, what you wear is a great way to communicate. Maybe you’re the hot gay aunt. The cool gay sibling. Maybe you were drunk for most of college and have come back to show how much you’ve grown.

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TV Feature

There Will Never Be Another Wishbone

The best episodes of Wishbone impressed on me the importance of storytelling and listening to other people’s stories.

A drawing of Yao (an Asian person with red hair and a pointy black hat) using a green watering can to water a large lower with pink petals against a blue sky.

Webcomics

Baopu #101: Effortlessly High Expectations

How do you balance effort and expectations? You gotta meet yourself half way… or not.

P-Valley 206 Recap: Mercedes and Farrah share an intimate moment in bed, smiling.

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Each New Episode of “P-Valley” Is a Chef’s Kiss, Bon Appétit

On P-Valley, Mercedes once again has had the rug yanked out from under her by someone who professed to care. Plus updates from All Rise, The Chi, Roswell, New Mexico and For All Mankind.

Good Trouble 411 Recap: Alice and Sumi read a text.

TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 411 Recap: The Year of Yes

Am I a little sad that Alice didn’t use this opportunity to find out more about Sumi’s feelings and what sparked their initial break-up? Yes, but the biggest impediment between Alice and Sumi has always been the lack of trust. This is how you build it back up.

Society + Culture

Obsessed: The Stayner Family’s Real American Horror Story

Hulu’s “Captive Audience” is one of the most intense crime stories I’ve ever heard, and it starts with the kidnapping of a seven-year-old boy and ends with a serial killer in Yosemite park.

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Queer Fashion Shopping

So You Want To Go To The Beach

This is a packing list for VACATIONS. The ones where you aren’t really doing anything, just reading a ton of romance novels between dips in the ocean and playing board games while drinking wine at night.

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Racing Rainbow Road

“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”

Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher features watercolor abstract shapes in blue, yellow, and orange and a pair of legs

LGBT Book Reviews

Chris Belcher’s “Pretty Baby” Examines the Power of Shame in Our Culture

You don’t have to look very closely to see that shame is one of the foremost organizing principles of our society.

an interracial lesbian couple gets into a verbal fight in a kitchen. a redheaded white woman speaks in an exasperated and angry manner. A Black woman with long gold braids puts her palm to her forehead and looks down. On top of the image reads the text: Into the A+ Advice Box.

AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #64: BREAKING UP

Breaking up with a queer anti-choice friend, your partner isn’t over their ex, and more!

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First Person

Three Sober Queers on Their First Drinks and Workplace Drinking Culture

“It’s funny, much like coming out, I always look back on these moments and think ‘Ah that’s when I should have known I had a problem’.”

A collage of Kehlani talking to a camera on TikTok in her car. Behind them the sky is blue. They have tattoos on their hands, their hair is parted down the middle.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Kehlani Rides Hard for LGBTQ Starbucks Workers, and We Ride Hard for Them

Kehlani opens up that their viral parking lot moment this week came after “influencer” Christian Walker harassed LGBTQ Starbucks workers. Also, librarians stand together in protest of anti-LGBTQ harassment…. and umm, the brands are getting horny!?