You Need Help: When Is it Love?
I’m not saying this word doesn’t hold meaning — I’m saying the opposite. This word holds so many meanings.
My Top 10 Television Characters: Kayla, Who Has Mommy Issues
A prime selection of Mean Moms and Women Who Could Beat Me Up.
Throwback to Shakedown: LA’s Black Lesbian Strip Club
In Los Angeles in the early 2000’s (I’m talking 2002, 2003 when J Lo released her Glo perfume) and long before social media could tell you where to go out, Shakedown was a famously hot party for the Black lesbian community. Even after LAPD shut down Shakedown in 2004, we came out and supported Leilah Weinraub to finish a documentary on the scene and carve out a piece of history.
8 Queer YA Novels With Coming of Age Hope to Relive Alice Wu’s “The Half of It”
Queer YA novels with themes similar to Alice Wu’s already beloved movie: falling in love through letter writing, figuring out your queer identity, keeping secrets, new friendships, small towns, and slowly getting to new your new girl crush.
Pop Culture Fix: Anne Heche Sure Is Out Here Giving Statements on Ellen Like It’s 1997
Classic LGBTQ moments on soaps, Tig Notaro will replace Chris D’Elia in Army of the Dead, Janet Mock wins a whole new award, trailers for Trinkets and Bad Hair, Amandla Stenberg has joined Dear Evan Hansen’s feature film, and more!
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 404 Recap: The Grudge
Waverly and Nicole take Rachel on a field trip to a junkyard to find Peacemaker while Wynonna is stalked by a Reaper in this spook-tacular episode.
Schools Are Ending Contracts With Cops, But That’s Not Enough
While students, their families and organizers are reimagining school hallways without cops, some administrators are stuck on punitive solutions to conflict.
What Do We Mean When We Say BIPOC?: A Roundtable
Nine queers of color on understanding and grappling with BIPOC — the acronym that, in so many ways, has come to define this summer.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 502: Look Out, Here They Come!
Your transcript and screencaps are here for the episode in which Shane sleeps with all the bridesmaids and Helena and Bette have a literal top-off in a fantasy sequence!!!!
We Need a Three Day Work Week
The time has come for us to abandon ideas of “normal” and imagine new worlds. What if we also imagined less time at work? What if every weekend was a four-day weekend? If I haven’t convinced you yet, here’s 22 reasons why.
Sunday Funday Is Rewatching “The Watermelon Woman” and Revealing in Cheryl Dunye’s Black Queer Joy
1997’s The Watermelon Woman is required viewing for 2020 (plus, Cheryl Dunye was fine then and is still fine now!). Compton has a legally recognized transgender district, Bay Area queers have a legacy of providing mutual aid for decades, Disney has bisexual lead characters, and so much more! Happy Sunday!!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Self-Destructing Art
How to tell if you’re dating a narcissist, how to get better at talking about sex, a pandemic glory hole explainer, the self-destructing art show you don’t want to miss, and more.
The Dyke Kitchen: A Summer Simmer With Short Ribs And Plums
I had a wide open evening and a bunch of plums and pluots on my counter. That’s how I ended up braising beef short ribs with broccolini and plums in a soy sauce broth. And I thought it would be nice to eat that with ricotta gnocchi that had preserved lemon in them.
Baopu #76: Lost, With Directions
I’m searching for the right person who can help me go through all this confusion.
What Songs From Gay TV Episodes Make You Cry in Public?
“I used to joke that it’s the song I want to get married to. And maybe I’m not joking.”
Extra! Extra!: The GOP Just Dealt a Big Blow to Abortion Rights You Probably Haven’t Even Heard About
This week’s Extra! Extra! provides yet another look at the state of political systems the world over. While democracy might be in dire straits, people are fighting for the governments they deserve. Meanwhile: some big abortion rights news that you probably didn’t see because it did not receive nearly the airtime it deserves, more Big Tech news, an update on the state of the pandemic, and more!
The Comment Awards Are Engaged to That Wife Who Loves Projects
“Marry me so we can live in a tiny house!”
In the Current Uprising for Black Lives, the WNBA Refuses to Play it Safe
When the WNBA asks the public to “say her name,” they mean Black trans women, too.
Also.Also.Also: Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson Are Doing Quarantine Like Two Introverts in Love
Holland Taylor spills the tea on quarantining with Sarah Paulson and if Peggy Peabody was actually gay. Also: Kamala Harris has picked a Black lesbian as her chief of staff, and a stunning collection of black&white photographs of trans women in 1950s Paris for all you history nerds (and fans of mid-century glamour!)
Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”